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The Moschetto Automatico Revelli-Beretta Mod. 1915 [1] (Commonly known as the Beretta Model 1918) was a self-loading carbine that entered service in 1918 with the Italian Armed Forces. Designed as a semi-automatic carbine , the weapon came with an overhead inserted magazine, an unconventional design based on the simplicity of allowing a spent ...
Beretta M1918/30: Beretta: 25: 9 mm Glisenti: 1930s: 900 rpm: 7 lb 3 oz (3.3 kg) Semi-automatic carbine developed for police use. Issued in limited numbers to Guardia alla Frontiera and Milizia Forestale units. Beretta Model 38: Beretta: 40: 9×19mm Parabellum: 1938: 600 rpm: 9 lb 4 oz (4.2 kg) Different box magazines had a capacity 10, 20 and ...
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.
All weapons of the Villar Perosa family, including the O.V.P. submachine gun and Revelli-Beretta carbine, were 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 standard Glisenti cartridge with an over-powder wad ...
M1918 may refer to: M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle; Beretta M1918; M1918 light repair truck; 3-inch Gun M1918; Ford 3-Ton M1918 World War I tank; M1918 240 mm Howitzer; Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr; M1918M1 155mm Gun, US-made version of French Canon de 155mm GPF; M1918 155mm Howitzer, US-made version of French Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider ...
The Glisenti Model 1910 used a bottlenecked 7.65 mm round which was similar to the 7.65×21mm Parabellum.Later, having the Italian Army judged the 7.65 round to be too light for military use, and having launched a competition for 9mm handguns instead, the Metallurgica Bresciana Tampini, owner of the design, adapted the Glisenti pistol to fire a 9mm round, obtained enlarging the original one ...
The use of the Pedersen device in the 1919 spring offensive was to be in conjunction with the full combat introduction of the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR.) The US Patent Office issued U.S. patent 1,355,417, U.S. patent 1,355,418, U.S. patent 1,355,419, and U.S. patent 1,355,420 to Pedersen for his invention. The United States Army paid ...
New England Small Arms Corporation was a consortium of small manufacturers who coordinated their facilities for production of M1918 Browning Automatic Rifles during World War II. The company was an unusual variation of United States conversion of small manufacturing plants from civilian goods to military armaments production.