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Flare guns. Hebel M1894; Sidearms. Bayard M1908; Beholla M1915; Bergmann–Bayard M1910; Dreyse M1907; Frommer M1912 Stop; Langenhan M1914 Selbstlader; Luger P04 and P08; Mauser C96; Mauser C78 and C86 Zig-Zag; Mauser M1910 and M1914; Reichsrevolver M1879 and M1883; Schwarzlose M1908; Steyr M1912; Submachine guns. Bergmann MP 18-I; FIAT Mod ...
The Lebel Model 1886 rifle (French: Fusil Modèle 1886 dit "Fusil Lebel") also known as the "Fusil Mle 1886 M93", after a bolt modification was added in 1893, is an 8 mm bolt-action infantry rifle that entered service in the French Army in 1887. It is a repeating rifle that can hold eight rounds in its fore-stock tube magazine, one round in the ...
Pages in category "World War I French infantry weapons" ... Hotchkiss machine gun; Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine gun; L. Lebel Model 1886 rifle; M. Meunier rifle; R.
The Mle 1917 RSC was gas-operated, using a long-stroke piston with a rotating bolt; the gas port was located underneath the barrel near the muzzle as in the later American M1 Garand rifle. The Mle 1917 was widely distributed among French infantrymen during 1918, but the troops did not like it as they found it too heavy, too long and too ...
This is a list of all weapons ever used by the French Army. This list will be organized by era. [1] [2] [3] The Army is commanded by the Chief of Staff of the French Army (CEMAT), who is subordinate of the Chief of the Defence Staff (CEMA), who commands active service Army units and in turn is responsible to the President of France. [4] [5] [6 ...
World War I infantry guns of France (1 P) W. World War I French infantry weapons (1 C, 14 P) Pages in category "World War I weapons of France"
The Chauchat machine rifle project was initiated between 1903 and 1910 in a French Army weapon research facility located near Paris: Atelier de Construction de Puteaux (APX). This development was aiming at creating a very light, portable automatic weapon served by one man only, [6] yet firing the 8 mm Lebel service ammunition.
French infantry pushing through enemy barbed wire, 1915. During World War I, France was one of the Triple Entente powers allied against the Central Powers.Although fighting occurred worldwide, the bulk of the French Army's operations occurred in Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Alsace-Lorraine along what came to be known as the Western Front, which consisted mainly of trench warfare.