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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)...
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    Peeperkorn, a dionysian Dutchman; and his romantic interest, Madame Clawdia Chauchat. Castorp eventually resides at the sanatorium for seven years. As the novel...
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    The Chauchat-Ribeyrolles 1918 submachine gun is a French prototype automatic weapon. In 1917, the French Army adopted the Mle. 1917 semi-automatic rifle...
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    extensively by the Italian Army during the lead-up to the First World War. The Chauchat, designed in 1907, was one of the first automatic rifles to be adopted...
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  • issue rifle. Also known as the Belgian Mauser) Mauser M1893 Machine guns Chauchat M1915 Colt–Browning M1895/14 Hotchkiss M1909 Hotchkiss M1914 Lewis M1914...
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    feed from standard magazine firearms such as the Berthier rifles and the Chauchat machine guns, and is the reason for the distinct curvature in the magazines...
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  • CTV 1 Rifle C 2 CTV 2 system Chauchat Rifle C 3 APX 3, system Chauchat & Sutter Rifle C 4 APX 4 Rifle C 5 system Chauchat & Sutter modified Naquet-Laroque...
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    automatic weapon General-purpose machine gun Assault rifle "Fusil mitrailleur Chauchat. FM modèle 1915 C.S.R.G." Les mitrailleuses du premier conflit mondial...
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    numbers during the opening stages of the Winter War. France developed the Chauchat-Ribeyrolles 1918 submachine gun, an automatic shortrifle chambered in 8×50mmR...
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    kept by Ordnance Department. In 1918, Ribeyrolles, Sutter and Chauchat designed the Chauchat-Ribeyrolles 1918 submachine gun. This weapon was meant to be...
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    use of suppressive fire from a light machine gun carried by one man—the Chauchat automatic rifle. The tactic was employed to a limited degree in World War...
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  • Mont-Saint-Éloi sector. Here he was impressed by the ubiquity of the French Chauchat and by the firepower it brought, but less so about its mobility. According...
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    British cavalry weapon until 1903. In late 1918, France developed the Chauchat-Ribeyrolles for tank crews to defend themselves. Developed from the Fusil...
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  • Lüdi. Christoph Eichhorn as Hans Castorp Marie-France Pisier as Claudia Chauchat Rod Steiger as Mynheer Peperkorn Charles Aznavour as Naphta Flavio Bucci...
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    American Expeditionary Forces in Europe as a replacement for the French-made Chauchat and M1909 Benét–Mercié machine guns that US forces had previously been...
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  • weapon) and a rifle bayonet identical to that of the Berthier Model 1907/15. Chauchat-Ribeyrolles 1918 submachine gun Fedorov Avtomat Fusil Automatique Modèle...
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    1960s and was in use until 2000–2006 with the National Gendarmerie. The Chauchat machine gun, hastily developed under the pressure of the events of the...
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    Mountain, the enamored Hans Castorp, with his heart pounding, asks Clawdia Chauchat if she could lend him her pencil, of which he keeps a few scraps like a...
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  • vz. 53 Madsen machine gun Schwarzlose M1907/12 MG 08 MG 30 MG 34 MG 42 Chauchat ZB vz. 60 Dshk (supplies from USSR 1945) Degtyaryov DP-27 (supplies from...
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  • St. Étienne Mle 1907 Schwarzlose M1907/12 Hotchkiss M1922 machine gun Chauchat EPK M1939 List of Greek military equipment of World War II Athanassiou...
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    machine gun Madsen machine gun Vickers-Berthier Mk.I machine gun MG 08 Chauchat Light machine gun FN Mle1930 / D machine gun CZ Brno ZB-26 machine gun...
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    later employed during World War II. The French introduced the CSRG 1915 Chauchat during Spring 1916 around the concept of "walking fire", employed in 1918...
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    for exhaust gases other than to aid cycling: Muzzle booster The French Chauchat, German MG 34 and MG 42 machine guns, the British Vickers machine gun,...
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    Belgian carbine, and most automatic weapons in the 20th century (e. g., Chauchat MG, Thompson submachine gun, AK-47 assault rifle), have a second frontal...
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    deployed in any significant number being the Madsen machine gun, with the Chauchat and Lewis gun soon following) saw their first major use in World War I...
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  • 'Commando'; 5.56×45mm NATO) M1919A6 (.30-06) Lewis Gun (.30-06, Army only) Chauchat (.30-06, 8 mm Lebel) M1909 Benét–Mercié (Machine Rifle, (.30-06)) Mk48...
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    had been designed around the concept of portability, such as the French Chauchat, which meant that the firepower of a machine gun could be taken forward...
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  • List of individual weapons of the U.S. Armed Forces Huot automatic rifle Chauchat - Another French light machine gun that was also used by the U.S. Army...
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    guns away from US Marines arriving in France and replace them with the Chauchat LMG—a practice believed to be related to General Crozier's dislike of Lewis...
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    Essentially machine rifles with a bipod, weapons like the Lewis Gun, Chauchat and the Madsen were portable by one soldier, but were made for single and...
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