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After the adoption of the long rifle, 200,000 were received before 1905. [3] 406 Marine-gewehre were delivered to the Ottoman Navy in 1904, [4] 7,617 to the Gendarmerie in Ottoman Macedonia. [3] 1,100 more, modified to fire spitzer bullets [5] and sometimes known as M1910, [4] were ordered in 1910. The Ottoman customs also received some. [3]
The most commonly-used gun was a battering gun or darbzen. This gun fired 0.15–2.5 kg (0.33–5.51 lb) shots in weight. These guns were used more in fortresses as the emphasis was given to small to medium-calibre guns. Small-calibre bronze pieces were also used on galleons and river boats; they weighed between 3.7–8.6 kg (8.2–19.0 lb).
The Turkish Mauser can be used to describe many Mauser rifles used by the Ottoman Empire and then the Republic of Turkey. The Mauser Model 1887 rifle, chambered in 9.5x60mm [1] The Mauser Model 1890 rifle and carbine, chambered in 7.65×53mm Mauser [2] [3] The Mauser Model 1893 rifle, chambered in 7.65×53mm and later in 7.92×57mm Mauser [4]
During the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, only about a tenth of Ottoman soldiers were equipped with the rifle, with the remainder carrying obsolescent Snider–Enfields and Martini–Henrys. Many of the M1893s (and other models of modern rifles) acquired by the Ottoman Army were kept in government arsenals rather than issued to soldiers.
T-26- Soviet AFVs bought before World War II in 1930s; T-27; T-28 (medium tank) - According to one source, two were sold to Turkey in 1935, along with 60 T-26, five T-27 tankettes, and about 60 BA-6 armoured cars to form the 1st Tank Regiment of the 2nd Cavalry Division at Luleburgaz.
Instead of the offered rifles (Mauser M1890), the Ottomans bought the Mauser M1893 and M1903 in 7.65 mm caliber. When constitutional rule was restored in 1908, the Ottoman Army mostly had basic rifles, with only a few rapid-firing ones. The Ottoman Army had no machine gun units until early 1910 (because of the changes implemented on July 3, 1910).
Mauser 1890 rifles were fielded by both Nationalist [43] and Sultanate armies during the Turkish War of Independence. [44] Some of these rifles were captured by Kurdish [45] and Circassian rebels. [46] In the 1950s, these rifles were still kept in reserve, [47] but many of them were rebuilt and rechambered in 7.92×57mm during the 1930s. [48]
The gun is depicted as a standard sidearm for Turkish officers in the film, Lawrence of Arabia, and a wounded, disoriented Turkish officer fires one at Lawrence after he de-rails the Turkish train. Author Ian Fleming outfitted agents of SMERSH in the James Bond series with Mausers on the advice of firearms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd . [ 101 ]