Italian MG Id.

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Museum Rovereto -fiat 1926

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Maxim m1906 machine gun
Italian-Turkish war of 1911-1912 years in Libya

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Breda m1924 tipo 5a

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perino 1910 machine gun
http://www.fondazionenegri.it/prbs/imag ... sch&itbs=1

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perino

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perino machine gun

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Alpine exercises with SIA1918 and Fiat1914 machine guns

[karlik]

Hi!
Help me please id this 2 italian 12,7-mm or 12,0-mm ??? FIAT MG
i think 1 it is FIAT Mod.1928 although he signed as FIAT Mod. 1926
and second ??????

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Italian 12,7-mm or 12,0-mm Fiat MG
http://forum.guns.ru/forum_light_messag ... 97128.html
http://forum.guns.ru/forum_light_messag ... 47775.html
http://pl.scribd.com/doc/69111233/Fiat-1928-CA

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Any idea?

Image from Ebay
Sturm78

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Breda SAFAT 7,7 mm

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[quote="audrew"]Maxim m1906 machine gun

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Can anybody identify these italians MGs ?

Eureka!
Fiat typ.S mod.1922

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Fiat typ.S mod.1922

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The earliest Maxims purchased by the Italian government were chambered for either 10.4x47R Vetterli or 6.5x52 Carcano. Trials span between 1887 and 1906 when finally the Italian Army officially adopted the Maxim machine gun under the designation Mitragliatrice Maxim M. 1906 calibro mm 6.5. A total of 220 Maxim machine guns chambered for the 6.5x52 Carcano cartridges were purchased from the Vickers Sons & Maxim company (VSM). Tripods were not purchased together with the weapon itself from VSM but rather from the Spanish company Gabolino y Cia in Eibar. Some ammunition belts might have probably been supplied from VSM but others were manufactured locally in Italy. So far, only one scarce Italian-made Maxim belt has been encountered by the author and it remains unknown if any other different Italian makers ever produced belts, or even if VSM ever provided ammunition belts on a large scale.
The Italian-made belt described here was made by the company Unione Elettrotecnica Bresciana in the city of Brescia. It is characterized by an odd capacity of 200 rounds, which reason might perhaps find its origin in the size of the ammunition box available.
As soon as 1914, the Italian Army adopted a new domestically designed machine gun, the Revelli Model of 1914, whose only major advantage was being of Italian origin. This new weapon soon caused the end of the Italian Maxim adventure.