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The Chauchat ("show-sha", French pronunciation: [ʃoʃa]) was the standard light machine gun or "machine rifle" of the French Army during World War I (1914–18). Its official designation was " Fusil Mitrailleur Modele 1915 CSRG " ("Machine Rifle Model 1915 CSRG"). Beginning in June 1916, it was placed into regular service with French infantry ...
De Knight M1902/17 [ 7 ] DWM Parabellum MG 13 [ 13 ] (A combination of water cooled version and air cooled version) Fokker-Leimberger M1916 machinen gewehr. Johnston D1918 [ 14 ] Knötgen M1912 machinen gewehr. S.I.A. M1918 [ 13 ] Schwarzlose M1905 machinen gewehr [ 7 ] Grenade launchers. Blanch-Chevallier grenade launcher.
H. Hotchkiss M1909 Benét–Mercié machine gun. Hotchkiss machine gun. Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine gun.
Circa 1920. The Mle 1914 Hotchkiss machine gun chambered for the 8mm Lebel cartridge became the standard machine gun of the French Army during the latter half of World War I. It was manufactured by the French arms company Hotchkiss et Cie, which had been established in the 1860s by American industrialist Benjamin B. Hotchkiss.
In 1949, after evaluating several prototypes (including a collapsible design from Hotchkiss), the French MAT factory began production of the MAT-49 9 mm submachine gun.. The MAT-49 used a machine stamping process which allowed the economical production of large numbers of submachine guns, then urgently required by the French Government for use by Army, French Foreign Legion as well as airborne ...
The Chauchat-Ribeyrolles 1918 submachine gun is a French prototype automatic weapon. In 1917, the French Army adopted the Mle. 1917 semi-automatic rifle made by Ribeyrolles, Sutter and Chauchat (RSC), who already developed the "Chauchat" Mle. 1915 LMG. In 1918, they presented a "pistolet-mitrailleur" (submachine gun), meant to be used for close ...
32-round detachable box magazine. The MAS-38 is a French submachine gun designed in the 1930s and used by French and German forces during the Second World War. It was derived from a small arms development program that took place between 1918 and 1922 under the control of the Service Technique de l'Armement. A submachine gun, a light machine gun ...
V. Villar Perosa aircraft submachine gun. Categories: World War I infantry weapons.