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Bavarian breechloading rifle M1858/67, Lindner-Braun conversion. The Podewils rifle-musket was a 13.9mm calibre rifle used in the Bavarian army since 1858. [1] It was the most common infantry weapon of the Bavarian army in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866 [2] and the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71. [1]
Vorgrimler had worked for Mauser before and during the war, and was the designer of the experimental German assault rifle known as "Gerät 06" or Stg.45(M). The design evolved into the CETME rifle, later adopted in 1958 by the Spanish Army as the Assault Rifle Model 58. In 1956 the German Army bought 400 CETME rifles.
The Werder pistol model 1869 was an infantry and light cavalry falling block pistol invented by Johann Ludwig Werder in Bavaria and based on his rifle design of 1868. [1] It was one of the first centerfire pistols to be adopted for use by a European military. [2]
The Mauser Model 1871, adopted as the Gewehr 71 or Infanterie-Gewehr 71, or "Infantry Rifle 71" ("I.G.Mod.71" was stamped on the rifles themselves), was the first rifle model in a distinguished line designed and manufactured by Paul Mauser and Wilhelm Mauser of the Mauser company and later mass-produced at Spandau arsenal.
Since production already ended in the 1970s, it is currently planned to have several thousand new cases milled. As of 2019, it remains in use primarily on combat vehicles as an anti-aircraft gun, but also as a blind machine gun. [12] Heckler & Koch 121. MG5A2 Germany: General-purpose machine gun: 7.62×51mm NATO [38] Intended to replace MG3.
Until 1905, it was located in Munich in the arsenal of the Bavarian army and then moved after five years of construction, into a new monumental building at the Hofgarten in Munich; where the Hofgartenkaserne (court garden barracks) had previously stood, and was based on the plans by Ludwig von Mellinger.
The FG 42 (German: Fallschirmjägergewehr 42, "paratrooper rifle 42") is a selective-fire 7.92×57mm Mauser automatic rifle [4] [5] produced in Nazi Germany during World War II. [7] The weapon was developed specifically for the use of the Fallschirmjäger airborne infantry in 1942 and was used in very limited numbers until the end of the war.
The 11×58mmR M1877, 11mm Werndl or 11.15×58mmR is a black powder cartridge used in the M1867 Werndl–Holub rifle as well as the Mannlicher M1886 rifle. [ 1 ] 11x58mmR Werndl (upper left) with other contemporary European black powder cartridges