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The Eriksen M/25 was a prototype light machine gun designed and built by the Norwegian gunsmith Johan Emil Barbat Eriksen in 1925. A single prototype of the weapon was manufactured and saw service with the Norwegian Army during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940.
Chauchat M1915 (5000 Machine guns donated by France. They were not issued during Winter War as arrived in January-February of 1940. Mostly issued to Finnish home front units, field artillery and some shortly equipped infantry units during early Continuation War.) Lewis machine gun (Small number used on aircraft and as anti-aircraft machine gun ...
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]
Infantry Board Report 1480: Air Machine Gun Trainers (AntiAircraft Machine Gun Trainer M9 & MacGlashan Air Machine Gun) April 30, 1943 Record Group 337 Entry (UD) 4 U.S. Army Ground Forces. Infantry Board Reports (1943) Box 86 [Stack Location: 190/73/34/00] The following specifications are in Air Materiel Command. Engineering Division.
The T24 machine gun was a prototype reverse engineered copy of the German MG 42 general-purpose machine gun developed during World War II as a possible replacement for the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle and M1919A4 for infantry squads. The T24 was chambered for the .30-06 Springfield cartridge.
After the commercial importation of complete machine guns was banned by the Gun Control Act of 1968, MP 40 parts kits (the disassembled parts of the gun excluding the receiver tube) were imported and reassembled onto receivers manufactured in the United States by Charles Erb, Wilson Arms, and others. [60]
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.
The M1941 Johnson Light Machine Gun, also known as the Johnson and the Johnny gun, [1] was an American recoil-operated light machine gun designed by Melvin Johnson in the late 1930s. It shared the same operating principle and many parts with his M1941 Johnson rifle and M1947 Johnson auto carbine .