Renaud Kerbrat is a

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gun designer and inventor. He is the owner or co-owner of various patents related to armament and precision technology. Born in Brittany, France, Renaud Kerbrat worked for various companies manufacturing ammunition and weapons in France and Belgium before establishing a company in Switzerland and creating weapons using his patented designs.

Firearm design work

Renaud Kerbrat has designed a number of

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actions claimed to eliminate most of the weapon's muzzle jump and recoil, thus making them more controllable during automatic fire. Kerbrat's work as a small arms designer has resulted in several

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s being granted by the US Patent Office. The

TDI Vector The KRISS Vector is a series of weapons based upon the parent submachine gun design developed by the American company KRISS USA, formerly Transformational Defense Industries (TDI). Designed in 2006 and seeing limited production since 2009, the K ...

KRISS Vector The KRISS Vector is a series of weapons based upon the parent submachine gun design developed by the American company KRISS USA, formerly Transformational Defense Industries (TDI). Designed in 2006 and seeing limited production since 2009, the K ...

submachine gun family manufactured in the USA are thus far the only production weapons to use Kerbrat's designs; in this case, the so-called "Super V" system, a blowback action using an off-axis recoil track for the block and bolt

External links

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New 2010 Patent
* Kriss (Vector gun) story https://smallarmsreview.com/transformational-defense-industries-inc-home-of-the-kriss-super-v-system/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Kerbrat, Renaud Firearm designers Weapon designers from France Living people Year of birth missing (living people)