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Description
A Czechoslovak light machine gun with a top-mounted magazine, widely exported. It was the basis of the British Bren.
Historical use
- Second Sino-Japanese War
- Second World War
Technical data
- Year
- 1926
- Service
- 1926–1945
- Country
- Czechoslovakia
- Maker
- Zbrojovka Brno
- Designer
- Václav Holek
- Type
- Machine gun
- Mechanism
- Automatic
- Calibre
- 7,92 × 57 mm Mauser
- Weight
- 9.6 kg
- Length
- 1,161 mm
- Barrel
- 672 mm
- Rate of fire
- 500 rds/min
- Capacity
- 20 rounds
Source: Wikidata Q495087
