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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 ]
The Villar Perosa is often technically regarded as the first submachine gun. [1] The Villar Perosa was somewhat odd, and had sort of a heavy double automatic pistol configuration, with two 25-round box magazines feeding each barrel and a rate of fire in excess of 1000 rounds per minute.
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 ...
Villar-Perosa may refer to: Villar Perosa, an Italian comune; Villar-Perosa aircraft submachine gun; See also. Perosa (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 11 ...
Villar Perosa (Occitan Lhi Vialars; French: Grand-Villars) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southwest of Turin. Villar Perosa borders the following municipalities: Pinasca, San Pietro Val Lemina, Inverso Pinasca, San Germano Chisone, Porte.
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Hafdasa C-4, an Argentine derivative of the Beretta Model 1918/30. OVP 1918, another Italian submachine gun made from half of a Villar-Perosa that was produced at the same time as the Beretta Model 1918 by Officine di Villar Perosa. Italian submachine guns; Owen gun, an Australian submachine gun also using a toploading design.