Breda machine guns mod.30
The light machine gun team from Breda Model 30 was the weapon of the canonical Royal Army during World War II. It was used as a fire support to basic units of infantry, because there was no automatic weapons at the time of individual practice-contrary, the guns were still essentially of the type usually bolt action or by a lever with manual weapons.
After the First World War, the Italian army radio all included automatic weapons, and then refitting the late '20s with new weapons: the FIAT Breda 9C and 24 were chosen for the role of light machine guns. A version of the second, lighter and with a bipod, was chosen as a submachine gun, a favorite model of Terni steelworks, as well as at BRNO Czechoslovakia, which later became the Bren famous and very successful.
Technically, it was a weapon sophisticated, but highly unsuitable for the intended use. His greatest honor was also her fault: the mechanical, very precise, too much for something that should not only fire inside a polygon perfectly pulito.Il magazine contained only 20 shots (very few for a weapon that can fire more than 400 per minute ) in plates are easy to deform, which reduced the rate of fire 150 rounds per minute in practice, appropriate weapon for air-cooled no spare barrels, but without the ability to shoot at rates higher as it was possible for other weapons straniere.Il principle of operation was very complex, based on the recoil of the barrel in solidarity with the shutter. In addition to its very end, the mechanics exposed to jam because of the extreme conditions in which it is normally used to work a machine gun team, and the many protrusions were of considerable embarrassment to the movement through the vegetation, because they tend to engage in all that incontravano.I bullets were all lubricated with a special pump before being fired, and this feature, unique, did nothing but bring trouble, due to the temperature reaching the oil, and dust, understandably, could not find a better ally for filling pores in the mechanisms interni.La short barrel (although the overall length 1.24 me well for the weight of 11 kg) did not allow practices thrown over 1 000 m, shot even typically not exceeding 500 meters. This, then, for a 6.5-mm ammunition, much smaller than the bullets from 7.5 to 8 mm of foreign armies, fired at speeds of just over 600 m / s.
Produced since 1930 by the Italian army was widely used in all theaters of war with very little results, certainly not dependent on the number available, which in 1940 amounted to over 30,000 esemplari.Non is no doubt that among all Breda automatic weapons, heavy and generally low volume of fire, but reliable and precise, this was the worst: low power, high weight, very low reliability, and even look anything but attraente.Nondimeno the machine gun continued to be produced as an alternative to anything until the end of the war, even under German occupation, which led to the re-designate 6.5 mm in Leichter MG 099. After the war, the weapon went on to serve along with the combat units of the police.
Sharpshooters in Libya with the Breda 30 and mounted on a Guzzi army.
The light machine gun team from Breda Model 30 was the weapon of the canonical Royal Army during World War II. It was used as a fire support to basic units of infantry, because there was no automatic weapons at the time of individual practice-contrary, the guns were still essentially of the type usually bolt action or by a lever with manual weapons.
After the First World War, the Italian army radio all included automatic weapons, and then refitting the late '20s with new weapons: the FIAT Breda 9C and 24 were chosen for the role of light machine guns. A version of the second, lighter and with a bipod, was chosen as a submachine gun, a favorite model of Terni steelworks, as well as at BRNO Czechoslovakia, which later became the Bren famous and very successful.
Technically, it was a weapon sophisticated, but highly unsuitable for the intended use. His greatest honor was also her fault: the mechanical, very precise, too much for something that should not only fire inside a polygon perfectly pulito.Il magazine contained only 20 shots (very few for a weapon that can fire more than 400 per minute ) in plates are easy to deform, which reduced the rate of fire 150 rounds per minute in practice, appropriate weapon for air-cooled no spare barrels, but without the ability to shoot at rates higher as it was possible for other weapons straniere.Il principle of operation was very complex, based on the recoil of the barrel in solidarity with the shutter. In addition to its very end, the mechanics exposed to jam because of the extreme conditions in which it is normally used to work a machine gun team, and the many protrusions were of considerable embarrassment to the movement through the vegetation, because they tend to engage in all that incontravano.I bullets were all lubricated with a special pump before being fired, and this feature, unique, did nothing but bring trouble, due to the temperature reaching the oil, and dust, understandably, could not find a better ally for filling pores in the mechanisms interni.La short barrel (although the overall length 1.24 me well for the weight of 11 kg) did not allow practices thrown over 1 000 m, shot even typically not exceeding 500 meters. This, then, for a 6.5-mm ammunition, much smaller than the bullets from 7.5 to 8 mm of foreign armies, fired at speeds of just over 600 m / s.
Produced since 1930 by the Italian army was widely used in all theaters of war with very little results, certainly not dependent on the number available, which in 1940 amounted to over 30,000 esemplari.Non is no doubt that among all Breda automatic weapons, heavy and generally low volume of fire, but reliable and precise, this was the worst: low power, high weight, very low reliability, and even look anything but attraente.Nondimeno the machine gun continued to be produced as an alternative to anything until the end of the war, even under German occupation, which led to the re-designate 6.5 mm in Leichter MG 099. After the war, the weapon went on to serve along with the combat units of the police.
Sharpshooters in Libya with the Breda 30 and mounted on a Guzzi army.
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