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    The MG 08 (Maschinengewehr 08) is a heavy machine gun (HMG) which served as the standard HMG of the Imperial German Army during World War I. It was an...
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  • (GPMG). Both the MG 34 and MG 42 were erroneously nicknamed "Spandau" by Allied troops, a carryover from the World War I nickname for the MG 08, which was produced...
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    MG 08 heavy machine gun. The MG 11 was based on the water-cooled Maxim machine gun, which had been developed by Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1885. The MG 11...
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    Parabellum MG 14 was a 7.92 mm caliber World War I machine gun built by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken. It was a redesign of the Maschinengewehr 08 machine...
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    1901, or MG 01, was the standard machine gun of the Imperial German Army from its introduction in 1901 to the adoption of its successor, the MG 08, in 1908...
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  • The MG 42 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 42, or "machine gun 42") is a German recoil-operated air-cooled general-purpose machine gun used extensively...
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  • The Bergmann MG 15nA was a World War I light machine gun produced by Germany starting in 1915. It used 100- and 200-round belts and utilized a bipod, which...
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    the MG 18. The MG 18 was essentially a scaled-up MG 08 heavy machine gun, the MG 08 itself being a licensed derivative of the Maxim gun. The MG 18, like...
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  • Bergmann MG 15 (Water cooled version) Bergmann MG 15nA (Air cooled version) Chauchat (Captured) DWM MG 99, MG 01, MG 08, MG 08/15, MG 08/18 and MG 09 DWM...
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  • 26 ZB vz. 30 ZB 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...
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  • gun) MG 99, MG 01, MG 08, MG 08/15, MG 08/18 and MG 09 Parabellum MG 14 and MG 14/17 (lightweight redesign of the MG 08) Schmeisser-Dreyse MG 12, MG 15...
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    large simultaneously by three separate warring nations—Germany with the MG 08, Britain with the Vickers, and Russia with the PM M1910). The modern definition...
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    Munitionsfabriken (DWM) MG 08 derived from MG 01 Its export version DWM 1909 commercial, featuring the naval tripod mount of the MG 08 instead of the sled...
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    screenwriter. The term 08/15 (nill-eight/fifteen, German: Null-Acht/Fünfzehn) refers to the German Army's standard machine gun, the 08/15 (or MG 08 model 15), by...
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  • MG V80 2015–2019 MG GS 2009–2016 MG 360 2013–2014 MG 350 2012–2014 MG E50 / Dynamo EV 2009–2016 MG 750 2008–2014 MG 550 2007–2011 MG TF 2002–2005 MG TF...
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  • Asch"). The term 08/15 (nill-eight/fifteen, German: Null-Acht/Fünfzehn) refers to the German Army's standard machine gun, the 08/15 (or MG 08 model 15), by...
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  • The MG 15 was a German 7.92 mm machine gun designed specifically as a hand-manipulated defensive gun for combat aircraft during the early 1930s. By 1941...
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    Heckler & Koch HK21 Kalashnikov rifle Maxim gun Mendoza HM-3 MG 08 MG 13 MG 17 machine gun MG 131 machine gun M2 Browning machine gun M16 rifle M1895 Colt–Browning...
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    solution than that which had initially been attempted with the 1915-vintage lMG 08 German aircraft ordnance. In 1918 the slotted modified original barrel jacket...
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    superstructure and had two distinct configurations; one variant being armed with the MG 08/15, and the other being armed with a 5.7 cm Maxim-Nordenfelt gun. Its armor...
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    September 1915. It was fitted with three forward-firing 7.92 mm (.312 in) lMG 08 "Spandau" machine guns, mounted to fire upwards at 15°. Anthony Fokker demonstrated...
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    A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges. Other automatic firearms such as automatic...
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    range of the 7.92×57mm round from a Mauser Gewehr 98 rifle or less for MG 08 machine gun. A smaller, shorter, and less powerful round would save materials...
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    men. Six of the crew operated three 7.92 mm machine guns, usually the MG 08 or MG 15nA. Some vehicles even received two Becker 20 mm cannons. In 1916,...
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  • machine gun, while another derivative was adopted by Germans in 1915 on their MG 08 guns. A later type of a recoil booster designed in 1904 by Trevor Dawson...
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  • French auto-maker Peugeot Type 24 heavy machine gun, Chinese version of the MG 08 Type 24 pillbox, a British WW II defence structure Type 24 rifle (Chiang...
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  • 08/15 may refer to: MG 08/15, machine gun 08/15 (film series) 08/15 (film), first part of the film series This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • submachine gun M30 mortar M7 grenade launcher Madsen M-50 (Thai) Mauser C96 MG 08 MG 34 Mills bomb Mk 2 grenade Model 24 grenade Mosin–Nagant Nagant M1895 PM...
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  • designation (SNL A-5) Vickers machine gun – British equivalent MG 08 – German equivalent MG 11 – Swiss equivalent PM M1910 – Russian equivalent Rottman,...
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  • weapon was known as a MG Vollmer, later also as VMG 1927. It consisted of only 78 parts while the standard MG of those days, the MG 08/15 consisted of 383...
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