Škoda M1909 machine gun

M1909 machine gun
Type	Medium machine gun
Place of origin	Austria-Hungary
Service history
In service	1909–1918?
Used by	Austria-Hungary
Wars	World War I
Production history
Designed	Unknown
Manufacturer	Škoda Works
Produced	1909–1917
Specifications
Weight	41.4 kg (gun & tripod)
Length	945 mm
Barrel length	530 mm

Cartridge	8×50mmR Mannlicher
Action	delayed blowback
Rate of fire	425 rpm
Feed system	250 round belt

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

Overview

The M1909 is a delayed-blowback water cooled belt fed medium machine gun, chambered in the 8×50mmR 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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Austro-Hungarian infantry weapons and equipment of World War I

Side arms

Revolvers	M1870 Gasser (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) Mannlicher M1886 Mannlicher M1888 Mannlicher M1890 Carbine Mannlicher M1893 Mannlicher M1895 Mannlicher-Schönauer Gewehr 1888 Mexican 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

M15 stick grenade
M17 egg grenade
M17 stick grenade

Machine guns

Domestic	Salvator-Dormus M1893 Schwarzlose M.7 Škoda M1909 Schwarzlose M.7/12

Foreign	Perino M1908 (Captured) Maxim M1910 (Captured) Fiat-Revelli M1914 (Captured) Villar-Perosa M1915 (Captured) Madsen (Purchased)

Helmets

M16 Stahlhelm
M17 Stahlhelm
Berndorf helmet

Other equipment

Hebel M1894 flare gun

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