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It was worked on by Georg Luger and Hugo Borchardt. DWM manufactured the Maschinengewehr 01 and Maschinengewehr 08, licensed version/clone of the Maxim machine gun. The MG08 would be the main German machine gun of the First World War, alongside the somewhat different, air cooled Parabellum MG 14/17 for aviation use. Along with being one of the ...
Receiver of a Gewehr 98 rifle made by Simson in 1916 Toggle of a Luger P08 pistol made by Simson In World War I , Simson produced Mauser Gewehr 98 rifles for the German Army. In the aftermath of the war and the Treaty of Versailles , the reorganized Reichswehr was allowed to buy new handguns from only one company, so as to limit the ability of ...
Luger 04 Pistol of the Imperial German Navy. The Luger pistol was accepted by the Imperial German Navy in 1904 in 9mm Parabellum as the Pistole 04 (P04). The navy model had a 150 mm (5.9 in) barrel and a two-position – 100 meters (110 yd) or 200 meters (220 yd) – rear sight.
The pistol was mass-produced and many examples still exist today. The Spanish Navy, along with the German Luftwaffe and the Chilean Navy primarily used the smaller variant Astra 300 and the Wehrmacht later altered the Astra 400 into the Astra 600 to better handle the 9mm Luger. The 400 was considered heavy as in order to handle the power of the ...
Bussing Kraftzugwagen KZW 1800 1916 (gun carrier) Daimler Marienfelde ALZ 13 1913 (supply truck) Daimler Marienwagen II halbspur 1916 (supply halftrack) Daimler Marienwagen II gepanzerter halbspur [8] 1917 (armored halftrack) Daimler Marienwagen II tankabwehrkanone [9] 1918 (anti-tank halftrack) Daimler Panzerautomobil [7] 1915 (armored car)
Austria-Hungary: 50,000 commercial model pistols were imported from Germany during WW1, most of them in 1916 [24] [51] Austria: Used in the First Austrian Republic. [52] Bolivia: Carried by officers in the Chaco War [53] [54] Brazil: [35] The Federal District police acquired some C96 pistols at the beginning of the 20th century.
Ever since the introduction of breechloaders, there had been a growing realization that the days of close-order infantry assault were coming to an end. For a time, up to the turn of the 19th century, armies tried to circumvent the problem by moving into range in dispersed formations and charging only the last metres, as the French did in the Second Italian War of Independence (1859), the ...
The 7.65×21mm Parabellum (designated as the 7,65 Parabellum by the C.I.P. [3] and also known as .30 Luger and 7.65mm Luger) is a rimless, bottleneck, centerfire pistol cartridge that was introduced in 1898 by German arms manufacturer Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) for their new Pistol Parabellum.