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Starting with the 1938 A, the Beretta SMG gained a well-deserved reputation of accuracy and reliability. 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)
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]
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.
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Schwarzlose submachine gun [11] Sturmpistole M1918; Thompson M1917 Persuader; Thompson M1918 Annihilator; 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 ...
Experimental Model 2 submachine gun: Nambu: 8×22mm Nambu Japan: 1935 SMG F1 submachine gun: Lithgow Small Arms Factory: 9×19mm Parabellum Australia: 1962-1973 SMG FAMAE SAF: FAMAE: 9×19mm Parabellum Chile: 1993-Present SMG FBP submachine gun: Fábrica de Braço de Prata: 9×19mm Parabellum Portugal: 1948 SMG Floro MK-9: Floro International ...
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 ...
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