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Chauchat
Fusil-mitrailleur modèle 1915 CSRG
Description
A French automatic rifle with a distinctive half-moon magazine. It was one of the first designed to be fired on the move alongside infantry.
Historical use
- First World War
Technical data
- Year
- 1915
- Service
- 1915–1924
- Country
- France
- Maker
- Gladiator
- Designer
- Louis Chauchat y Charles Sutter
- Type
- Machine gun
- Mechanism
- Automatic
- Calibre
- 8 × 50 mm R Lebel
- Weight
- 9.07 kg
- Length
- 1,143 mm
- Rate of fire
- 240 rds/min
- Capacity
- 20 rounds
- Units made
- ≈ 262,000
Source: Wikidata Q1068348
