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Heavy machine gun

Perino Model 1908
Austro-Hungarian captured Perino MG
Type	Heavy machine gun
Place of origin	Kingdom of Italy, Austria-Hungary (captured)
Service history
Used by	Italy
Wars	Italo-Turkish War(limited),World War I
Production history
Designer	Giuseppe Perino
Designed	1901
Specifications
Mass	27kg

Cartridge	6.5x52mm Carcano
Action	Recoil
Rate of fire	450RPM
Feed system	20 round strips
Sights	Iron

The Perino Model 1908 was an early machine gun of Italian origin designed earlier in 1901 by Giuseppe Perino, an engineer (Tecnico dell'Artiglieria). Perino's design apparently was the first Italian-designed machine gun, and in its original configuration weighed in at a heavy 27 kilograms (60 lb), which made it largely unsuitable to field utilization and apt only for fortifications; a lightened 1910 version brought the weight down to 15 kilograms (33 lb). The gun was nonetheless adopted by the Regio Esercito and saw some use alongside the Fiat-Revelli Modello 14 and the Maxim guns. It had a unique feed mechanism, with a hopper on the side of the gun filled with up to five twenty-round clips rather than being belt fed. This allowed the loader to constantly keep the gun at maximum capacity, meaning the gun crew never had to stop to reload.

References

Esposito, Gabriele, Armies of the Italian-Turkish War: Conquest of Libya, 1911–1912 Osprey Publishing (2020)

McNab, Chris: Twentieth-century Small Arms, Grange Books, 2004; ISBN 1-84013-381-3
Nevio Mantoan, Weapons and Equipment of the Italian Army in the Great War 1915-1918, Gino Rossato Editore, First Edition. July 1996.

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Austro-Hungarian infantry weapons and equipment of World War I

Sidearms

Revolvers	Gasser M1870 (limited) Gasser-Kropatschek M1876 (limited) Rast & Gasser M1898
Pistols	Roth-Steyr M1907 Steyr-Pieper M1908 Steyr-Pieper M1909 Frommer Stop Steyr M1912 Mauser C96 (purchased) Dreyse M1907 (purchased)

Rifles

Domestic	Werndl-Holub M1867 (limited) Kropatschek M1886 (limited) Mannlicher M1886 Mannlicher M1888 Mannlicher M1890 carbine Mannlicher M1893 Mannlicher M1895 Mannlicher–Schönauer Gewehr 1888 Steyr-Mauser M1912
Foreign	Berdan rifle (captured) Ottoman Mauser (in Ottoman Empire) Mosin-Nagant M1891 (captured) Carcano M1891 (captured) Type 30 (captured) Type 38 (captured)

Hand grenades

Machine guns

Domestic	Salvator-Dormus M1893 Schwarzlose M.7 Schwarzlose M.7/12
Foreign	Perino M1908 (captured) Maxim M1910 (captured) Fiat-Revelli M1914 (captured) Villar-Perosa M1915 (captured) Madsen (purchased) Montigny mitrailleuse (limited use)

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