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Skoda M1909 (Machine gun)

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The Skoda M1909 is a Machine gun of Austro-Hungarian (Czech) origin and was manufactured by the Škoda Works in Plzeň. Although it was unable to compete with the more reliable Schwarzlose m/07, it was used in the same period, albeit mostly with reserve and home guard battalions within the Austro-Hungarian armed forces.-

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The M1909 is a delayed-blowback water cooled belt fed medium machine gun, chambered in the 8x56mm round. As with all delayed blowback operated mechanisms chambered for powerful cartridges it suffers from relatively poor performance compared to recoil operated guns such as the Maxim.-

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Specifications
Weight 41.4 kg (gun & tripod)
Length 945 mm
Barrel length 530 mm
Cartridge 8x50mmR Mannlicher
Caliber 8 mm
Action delayed blowback
Rate of fire 400–580 round/min (M.07/12)
600–880 round/m (MG-16A)
Feed system 250 round belt
 
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