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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]
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) Beretta Model 1938A (1938, based on earlier 1935 model) Beretta Model 38/42 (1940s, formed basis for model 3)
It is possible that this magazine arrangement was abandoned because the Villar Perosa magazines performed better with gravity assistance. It is not known whether the prototype tested in 1916 and early 1917 was built with the unusual features seen on the patent sketch, but in any case the final production model was not. [4]
Villar Perosa aircraft submachine gun: Officine di Villar Perosa 9mm Glisenti Italy: 1915 Other Vityaz-SN: Kalashnikov Concern: 9×19mm Parabellum Russia: 2008 SMG Walther MP: Walther arms: 9×19mm Parabellum.380 ACP West Germany: 1963-1985 SMG WG66: 7.62×25mm Tokarev East Germany: 1966 SMG Z-45: Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A. 9x19mm ...
It was also used in other Italian weapons such as the Beretta Model 1915 and Beretta M1923 pistols. 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 ...
In the 1930s the semiautomatic [4] Mod.1918/30 model was developed; It completely revamped the action of the gun, replacing the delayed-blowback Villar Perosa action with a new closed-bolt system with a loose firing pin that was cocked by a guided rod protruding from the rear of the receiver, with a ring-shaped cocking piece. This earned the ...
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The OVP 1918, an offspring of Revelli's Villar Perosa 1915, inspired [citation needed] Heinrich Vollmer for his telescopic bolt used in the VPM 1930, EMP, MP 38, MP 40 and MP 41. The Soviet Union made a similar use of MP 28 design in their PDD-34 sub machine gun in 1934. Further development of the PPD-34 led to the simplified PPD-40 and PPSh-41 ...