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Diameter:7.92 กม 57mm
Is generally believed that Germany'sMG34Is the
world's first general-purpose machine guns, that is, the severity
of dual-use machine guns. Will be developed in GermanyMG34,
And the relationship between the Treaty of Versailles are
inextricably linked. Since the defeat of Germany in the First
World War, the British and the French in the Treaty of trying
to limit Germany's re-emergence, in the many restrictions
which one is the prohibition of production of German heavy
machine gun. Thus the German Po bend to circumvent the Treaty
of Versailles, such as the production of battleships are not
allowed, they would produce large tonnage of cruisers. For
the terms of banning the production of heavy machine guns,
the Germans not only on production of a tripod you can only
use two as a light machine guns to use, follow the platoon
and squad combat; they can be installed into a tripod as a
heavy machine gun to use, the support battalion and company
level weapons ; also be loaded onto armored vehicles or tanks,
machine guns as a vehicle.
MG34Full nameMaschinengewehr-34(1934-type machine gun), rifle
in the early 1930s stereotypes, put into operation in 1935
and equipped forces, and soon replaced the original equipmentMG13,
And other old-fashioned machine guns.MG34A service by the
troops on the popular, and is the German soldiers to assist
the Spanish Civil War for the first time put into use, in
the first half of the period before World War IIMG34Is also
a major Nazi German Army infantry support weapons. Nevertheless,MG34Too
expensive, whether it is the raw materials needed for production
(49 kg of steel) and its manufacturing is too time-consuming,
therefore not suitable for large volume production to meet
the ever expanding German army. It also has poor reliability,
not dirt. Therefore, as an infantry machine-gunMG34EventuallyMG42Replaced,
but theMG42After the service,MG34Remain as tanks, armored
vehicles and aircraft defensive weapon has been used until
the end of World War II. BesidesMG34Are also exported to other
countries or imitation, the Chinese Kuomintang army in World
War II there is also this gun.
MG34Who designed it? Some information that is Louis Shtange
(Louis Stange) Led Rheinmetall design of the company's design
team, and other sources say, by Heinrich Vollmer (Heinrich
Vollmer) In the Mauser arsenal design. But no matter who should
take the head, the last in 1934, is incorporated into the
design of stereotypes by Rheinmetall and Mauser Arsenal researchers
in the experiment made improvements, so the two men are definitely
for theMG34Contribution to the final shape. MoreoverMG34Is
not a new design, but in the early years of Rheinmetall's
design is completed and has been serving in the Swiss army
in 1930 Souraud pass machine guns (Solothurn 30) Based on
the improvement of betrayals. The main change is for the shells,
turning it into a more convenient location (left rear), and
the addition of a barrel casing, and change the action agencies
to firing rate increased to 800 ~ 900rpm.
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