11/12/2022 0 Comments Dumbo tattoo![]() Is it similar to the 1929 Vickers-Berthier used by the Indian Army? Does anyone know its specifications? He refers to France's as "the Model 1908 Berthier-Pacha". Haythornwaite's The World War One Source Book that both France and Belgium used a light Berthier machinegun. In that situation there was a lot of suitable ammo about, even if the magazines had to be reloaded with rifle ammunition.īroadside wrote:I gather from Philip J. A side advantage is the use of the French ammo they probably did not use the MGs all the time, but if they were really needed it would probably be when they were in the French trenches, being counter-attacked. that was the major cause of jamming? Also, mud in the magazine? Or were they simply a bad mechanical design, that jammed by itself? If it was dirt, my father's unit were probably able to keep them clean, and had the luxury of test-firing each one and tossing the unreliable ones, if they were unreliable in the sense that one worked and another tended to jam. I would think that they could keep their weapons clean, well-oiled, fussed with. Their attacks were almost always surprise events that they usually could stage-manage. However, what was the principal reason the Chauchat jammed so much? My father's unit was in barracks 95% of the time, were trucked to action in their own trucks, so they didn't wallow in the trenches for days and weeks. I had been leaning toward their chosing the Hochkiss because of its better reputation for reliability, since without a tripod it might be managable, and since their ammo "sticks" should work at the walk. So they carried their own MGs, especially light Minenwerfer, and their own bombers. They had learned that a lot of the infantry were not reliable, might bolt when they turned the FW on, and that they did not know their special and sometimes counter-intuitive tactics. However, they really wanted at least eight. One reason for using French machine guns probably was that they were authorized to have two MG 08/15s per company. One more question your knowledge here may allow me to narrow this question. Etienne guns, which seem to have had more than their share of problems? Is it fair to say that the Hotchkisses were France's only successful machineguns of the war? What were the French trying to correct about the Hotchkiss M1900 that led to the Puteaux and St. Does anyone know the approximate numbers produced of the following? I can't tell which were their main weapons and which were limited standard or perhaps never even issued. The French seem to have a lot of models of machinegun. In Belgian service was the Berthier in 7.65mm like Belgian rifles? (I wonder the same thing about a lot of small countries' machineguns, e.g. Is it similar to the 1929 Vickers-Berthier used by the Indian Army? Does anyone know its specifications? I wonder why the French largely chose the Chauchat over it and I am wondering if weight had anything to do with it. ![]()
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