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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]
Battlefield 1 is a first-person shooter game developed by DICE and published ... Players who pick up the Sentry Kit gain plate armour and a MG 08/15 or Villar Perosa ...
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 Villar Perosa is often technically regarded as the first submachine gun. [1] The Villar Perosa was somewhat odd, and had sort of a heavy double automatic pistol configuration, with two 25-round box magazines feeding each barrel and a rate of fire in excess of 1000 rounds per minute.
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At the end of 1916, Major Bethel-Abiel Revelli - designer of the Villar Perosa - demonstrated a new weapon to the Department of Air Artillery which was called the Carabinetta Automatica O.V.P.. The weapon was an attempt to adapt the Villar Perosa into a single-barreled, shoulder-fired carbine, on the request of the Aviation Corps who wanted a ...
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