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The original intention was to create a gun capable of penetrating German tank armour. Due to unavailability of Il-2, the first airborne testing was performed using a Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighter sold by Germany in 1940. After testing on Il-2 in 1941, TKB-201 was accepted into service as VYa-23. A total of 64,655 VYa-23 were built.
Colleoni machine gun — 6.50×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: Ammunition belt Italy: 1908 Colt Machine Gun: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 5.56×45mm NATO: Ammunition belt United States: 1965 Colt Automatic Rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: Detachable box magazine United States: 1982 Darne machine gun: Hotchkiss et Cie: 7.50×54mm French 8.00×51mmR French ...
The MGD PM-9 was a French open bolt submachine gun, designed in the late 1940s or early 1950s by Louis Debuit and manufactured in small numbers by French firm Merlin and Gerin in the 1950s. [1]
FN P90 (1990–present) – Belgian personal defense weapon, a submachine gun but with a scaled down intermediate rifle cartridge; MP 18 (1918–1945) – German submachine gun, world's first widely used and successful; MP 28 (1928–early 1940s) – An improvement of the MP 18
Lewis machine gun; FN Mle 1930 - Standard light machine gun adopted in 1930. Copy of Colt R75 (the Browning Automatic Rifle Model 1925 ) [30] MG 08/15; Fusil-Mitrailleur 1915-27 (Used by rear-line units) [31] Bren light machine gun (used by Free Belgian forces) [32]
Light machine gun: Recoil operated Nazi Germany: MG 30: Rheinmetall 7.92×57mm Mauser: 1932 12.4 MG 17: Light machine gun: Recoil operated, closed bolt: aircraft Nazi Germany: MG 30: Rheinmetall-Borsig: 7.92×57mm Mauser: 1934 10.2 MG 81: Light machine gun: Recoil-operated: aircraft Nazi Germany: MG 34: 7.92×57mm Mauser: 1940 6.5 MG 131: Heavy ...
1940 1942 [13] [13] Mk VI .303 British: 1940 1942 [13] Mk VII .303 British: 1940 1942 [13] Vickers .50 machine gun: United Kingdom Mk III Mk V Vickers 12.7×81mm 1939 1945 M1898 Hotchkiss France: M1898 Hotchkiss .303 British: 1900 1900 [13] Pattern 1914 Hotchkiss France United Kingdom: Pattern 1914 Mk I .303 British: 1916 1945 [13] Vickers Gas ...
World War II was a global war that was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945. On 10 May 1940, Nazi Germany, which aimed to dominate Europe, attacked Belgium as part of their war with France. By 28 May 1940 the Belgian mainland had surrendered to German forces, although the colony of Belgian Congo remained independent throughout the war. Belgian ...