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Swiss Week – LMG25 Manuals and Photos

July 24, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

Continuing Swiss Week, we have more detailed information on the LMG25 light machine gun today. There design was officially adopted by the Swiss Army in 1925 (as you might have guessed) after about 7 years […]

Swiss Week – LMG25 video

July 23, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

This week, we will be featuring all Swiss weapons here at Forgotten Weapons. Kind of like Shark Week, but more land-locked. We’ll kick off today with a video showing you around a Swiss LMG-25 light […]

Vesely V-42 Submachine Gun

July 20, 2012 Ian McCollum 12

The Vesely Machine Carbine (aka V-41, V-42, and V-43) was a submachine gun designed in Britain by a Czech refugee named Josek Vesely. In most respects, the Vesely was a typical subgun, firing 9mm Parabellem […]

Kiraly 1935 Experimental LMG

July 13, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

It wasn’t just chance that we got up to date on the KE-7 earlier this week – I wanted to have that in your mind before posting this interesting piece. We found it in the […]

SIG KE-7 Light Machine Gun (Again!)

July 11, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

Yep, if you do a search through the blog, you’ll find that we’ve talked about the KE-7 twice before. But we have yet more material to add this time! And it’s a great example of […]

Chauchat Followup

July 6, 2012 Ian McCollum 19

We had a lot of feedback on Tuesday’s post on the CSRG Chauchat light machine gun, so I figured I should do a bit of followup today. Leszek in Poland sent us these photos of […]

The Worst Gun Ever

July 3, 2012 Ian McCollum 44

By popular internet acclaim, the Worst Gun Ever is officially the Chauchat light machine gun. Every time the question comes up, that’s what people say. I’m not saying they’re necessarily wrong – but everyone always […]

Polish “Beha” Resistance SMG

June 29, 2012 Ian McCollum 23

Today, I have the privilege of presenting a great in-depth article by Polish submachine gun expert Leszek Erenfeicht. The gun he is discussing is the Beha, a submachine gun developed under very difficult conditions by […]

French AA-52

June 25, 2012 Ian McCollum 16

The AA-52 was adopted to replace the Chatellerault light machine gun in French military service in 1952. The AA52 is rather unusual in being a rifle-caliber (7.5×54 French, specifically) machine gun using a lever-delayed blowback […]

Vintage Saturday: Bulgarians with ZK383s

June 23, 2012 Ian McCollum 4

Also note the (apparently) standard-issue tank crew mustache.