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The Pistola Mitragliatrice Fiat Mod. 1915, [1] commonly nicknamed the Villar Perosa, [1] was an Italian portable automatic weapon developed during World War I by the Officine di Villar Perosa. As it was designed to use 9×19mm ammunition, it is said to be the first submachine gun, although not a true submachine gun by modern standards. [2]
They used the Italian 9 mm model 38, a round much more powerful than the German made 9 mm Parabellum. Villar Perosa (1915) OVP 1918 (developed in 1918 from the Villar Perosa) Beretta Model 1918 (1918) Beretta Model 1938A (1938, based on earlier 1935 model) Beretta Model 38/42 (1940s, formed basis for model 3)
The Maschinengewehr des Standschützen Hellriegel in testing, 1915. Hellriegel's submachine gun was a fully automatic firearm. The gun had a water-cooled barrel. The cooling-jacket around the barrel bears similarities to that of the Schwarzlose machine gun, and had two openings, one to fill it with water and the other to release excess steam.
The army held their own separate submachine gun trials which compared designs by Beretta, Ansaldo, SIAI Savoia, Cei-Rigotti, and A.N. The Beretta gun was adopted, in September 1918 as the Moschetto Automatico Revelli-Beretta Mod. 1915 (commonly known as the "Beretta Model 1918") - however it was ultimately only adopted in semi-automatic form. [3]
Villar Perosa aircraft submachine gun: Officine di Villar Perosa: 9mm Glisenti Italy: 1915 Other Walther MP: Walther arms: 9×19mm Parabellum.380 ACP West Germany: 1963-1985 SMG WG66: 7.62×25mm Tokarev East Germany: 1966 SMG Z-45: Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A. 9x19mm Parabellum 9×23mm Largo.38 Super.45 ACP Spain: 1945 SMG Z63: Star ...
Villar-Perosa OVP M1918 (Single barrel version) Walther M1918 machine pistol; Rifles. Fiat-Revelli M1916 automatic carbine; Howell M1915 semi automatic rifle; Huot M1916 automatic rifle; Knötgen M1914 automatic rifle; Lewis M1918 automatic rifle [12] Ribeyrolles M1918 automatic carbine; Cei-Rigotti M1895 automatic rifle; Springfield-Pedersen ...
The gun was made from half of a Villar-Perosa aircraft submachine gun. [2] Like all weapons of the Villar Perosa family, including the O.V.P. submachine gun it was originally intended to fire a variant of the 9mm Glisenti cartridge, known as Glisenti M.915 "Per Mitragliatrici" ("For Machine-Guns"). This was a higher-velocity version of the ...
In late 1916, the Military Aviation Corps of the Italian Army created the first official demand for a submachine gun when they requested the development of a single-barreled Villar Perosa with a detachable stock, which was made in early 1917 and later adopted as the Carabinetta Automatica OVP, with 500 being issued to observation crews. The ...