Has anyone seen this machine gun before?
Posted by UK_mattie@reddit | ForgottenWeapons | View on Reddit | 26 comments
If it is drawn after a real gun, it’s nothing like I’ve ever seen before
bobbobersin@reddit
BF1 I believe
AKMike99@reddit
Battlefield 1 players already knew without having to look it up
till-0807@reddit
I love the fact that you can just carry that thing around and fire it from the shoulder there
locolarue@reddit
Good God.
till-0807@reddit
Thats not the only one btw, you can carry LITERAL MAXIM GUNS around too
TragicTester034@reddit
Just as insane as Lugging around a browning M1917 HMG with a 250 round belt box
286893@reddit
Broken af too
wdraino1-1@reddit
Thousands of kills with the Perino and M1917
davewave3283@reddit
People back in the day thought they’d be firing machine guns comfortably from a stool with a mule guy standing casually next to them.
justaheatattack@reddit
I sure hope the mule has.
Neptune502@reddit
Most likely a Perino Model 1908
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perino_Model_1908
dr_xenon@reddit
*It had a unique feed mechanism, with a hopper on the side of the gun filled with up to five twenty-round clips rather than being belt fed. This allowed the loader to constantly keep the gun at maximum capacity, meaning the gun crew never had to stop to reload.*
That sounds interesting.
Ignonym@reddit
"Clips" might be the wrong word. From this animation, it seems to run on Hotchkiss-style strips, with two unusual features: first, it has a hopper for additional strips that automatically feeds them into the gun when the previous strip is ejected rather than the assistant gunner having to do that manually, and second, the spent cartridge cases are returned to the strip rather than ejected.
dr_xenon@reddit
Very interesting that it feeds from the bottom with then weight of the other strips on top and that it grabs the next strip as it drops.
Ignonym@reddit
That locking block/cam/spindle/thing is what caught my eye, personally.
dr_xenon@reddit
Ian needs to do a video on this!
Taolan13@reddit
that's... interesting.
makes policing your brass super easy, if that's accurate to how it functions.
Plump_Apparatus@reddit
Not entirely unique. The Japanese Type 11 LMG was fed by a hopper holding six five round clips. The Soviets experimented with converting Degtyarov machine guns from their normal pan magazines to being hopper fed from the standard Mosin clip, but they never entered production.
GrahminRadarin@reddit
It was featured somewhat prominently in Battlefield 1. It's basically a stack of six stripper clips, similar to the Japanese Nambu Type 11. Here's a recreation of how it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-8gdUzpPTw
GregorIsABug@reddit
This is it! My first guess was a Schwarzlose but then I saw the Italian at the bottom.
Different-Ice-1979@reddit
Wasn’t it in the movie the mummy
Barjack521@reddit
My stupid ass was sitting there wondering why the horse was wearing a blindfold. I thought that perhaps it was to keep the smoke from the burning gunpowder out of its eyes or something. Then, after
Racking my brain, I looked away and looked back and immediately saw that I’m an idiot and that it not a horse blindfold but the gunner’s hat.
BloodRush12345@reddit
This sent me on an emotional roller coaster. I had initially seen it as a hat. Then I read your comment and said holy fuck the horse is blindfolded. After a third look I again saw the hat
Kalashalite@reddit
Perino Model 1908
GregorIsABug@reddit
Austrian schwarzlose m1907/12 maybe?
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