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	Luftwaffe Aircraft Gun & Cannon Ammo - Inert-Ord.net
		The 13mm MG 131 bullet is about three times heavier than that of the 7.92mm, but can be fired at a similar muzzle velocity.
		Being very different from the 7.92mm MG 17 light machine guns installed on the same aircraft, the cumulative effect of concentrated fire was lost.
		This gun had a heavy punch and was an effective weapon to use against bombers such as the B-17.
	www.inert-ord.net /luft02h (805 words)

	MG 131 machine gun - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The MG 131 was a 13 mm machine gun developed in 1938 by Rheinmetall-Borsig and produced from 1940 to 1945.
		The MG 131 was designed for use at fixed or flexible, single or twin mountings in Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II.
		A pair of MG 131 machine guns was used as cowl armament on the Bf 109 and the Fw 190.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/MG_131 (133 words)

	Machine Guns - Maschinengewehre
		Machine guns derive their limited armor-penetrating capability both from the single bullet's penetration ability and from the effect the repeated hits of bullets in quick succession - as is the case with a machine gun - onto the same spot have on thin steel plates.
		Because of the ruggedness of the MG 42, it was preferred to issue this weapon to the infantry and rather use the MG 34 in vehicle mounts where the MG 34 was less exposed to dirt and damage.
		With the occupation of czechoslovakia in 1939 the germans captured 31,204 machine guns of the types ZB 1926 and ZB 1930, mostly the latter.
	www.geocities.com /Augusta/8172/panzerfaust5.htm (4863 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Fw 190
		The armament of the A-1 series consisted of two 7.92 mm MG 17 machine guns mounted in the upper engine cowling, one MG 17 at each wing root and a MG FF/M 20 mm cannon in each wing.
		The MG FF was a drum-fed 20 mm aircraft cannon developed in 1936 by Oerlikon and license-produced in Germany.
		Fw 190V7 was used for testing of a heavier armament consisting of two 20 mm Rheinmetall-Borsig (Oerlikon licence) MG FF cannons (in addition to the four MG 17 machine guns), mounted in the wing center section just aft of the main gears attachment point.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fw-190 (2115 words)

	Articles \| Rifles n Guns
		The MG 131 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 131, or "Machine rifle 131") was a 13 mm...
		The Nordenfelt Gun was a multiple barrel machine gun that had a row from one to twelve...
		The Gast Gun was a German twin barreled machine gun developed by Karl Gast of the 'Vorwerk'...
	www.riflesnguns.com /article (127 words)

	Aviation Hotline - History in Pictures H-M (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A single Vickers 0.303 inch machine gun was mounted in the front left side of the fuselage and synchronised for firing through the propeller, a Lewis 0.303 inch machine gun was mounted in the rear cockpit, firing backwards.
		It was armed with four 7.92 mm MG 17 machine guns and two 20 mm MG FF cannons in the nose and one 7.92 mm MG 15 machine gun in the rear cockpit.
		She was armed with two 20 mm MG 151/20 fixed forward-firing cannons in the nose, two 7.92 mm MG 17 fixed forward-firing machine guns in the nose, and two 13 mm MG 131 trainable lateral-firing machine guns in two remotely controlled power-operated FDL 131 barbettes on the sides of the fuselage.
	www.aviationhotline.com /HistoryinPicturesH-M.htm (7526 words)

	Dornier Do 317
		MG 131 machine gun in an electrically-operated turret in the roof of the pressure cabin, a fixed forward-firing 15-mm.
		MG 151 cannon in the lower port side of the forward fuselage, a pair of free-mounted 7.9-mm.
		MG 81 machine guns projecting from the starboard side of the nose glazing, and two aft-firing 13-mm.
	histaviation.com /Dornier_Do_317.html (675 words)

	Junkers JU 188
		One 13mm MG 131 machine gun in dorsal turret.
		One 13mm MG 131 machine gun manually aimed from rear dorsal position.
		twin 7.92mm MG 81 machine gun manually aimed from rear ventral position.
	members.tripod.com /chip2500/id146.htm (65 words)

	Descriptions of various gun court cases (a-t)
		While the guns were registered in the USA when they were exported, once exported they were removed from the NFA Registry, and had to comply with current law in order to be imported (ie as sample guns, for experimentation or research, or for sale to government entities).
		The court decided that the firearm was not defective, in that the friend intentionally operated the gun in the way it was meant to be operated (including loading the chamber of the gun from the magazine, before removing it), and that the fact that it could fire with the magazine removed was not a defect.
		While the company agreed the earlier guns were mg's, in their opinion, as ATF had disallowed the 1986 versions of the guns (apparently M-2 carbines and converted AR's, among other things) they must be wrong.
	www-2.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/usr/wbardwel/public/nfalist/cases1.html (18177 words)

	CANNON OR MACHINE GUN
		Although the eight guns between them fired no fewer than 160 rounds per second (rps), they were initially adjusted to concentrate their fire at the long range of 365 m which led to the bullet strikes being spread across the target at shorter ranges.
		The guns were more than twice as heavy as the 7.92 mm MG 17 and fired only half as fast, at about 9 rps.
		The MG 131 was a 13 mm HMG intended to replace the RCMGs in both fixed and movable mountings, and therefore kept as small and light as possible, making it the least powerful HMG to see service.
	www.quarry.nildram.co.uk /CannonMGs.htm (3242 words)

	Focke-Wulf Fw 190
		Armament was two 20-mm MG 151 cannon in the wing roots with 200 rpg and two 13-mm MG 131 machine guns with 475 rpg mounted in the upper fuselage deck.
		The plane's armament consisted of Rheinmetall-Borsig MG-17 7.9 mm machine guns and 13 mm MG 131 machine guns mounted in the wings near the fuselage.
		In place of wing mounted MG 17 machine guns, the Mauser MG 151/20 E 20 mm canons were used because of delivery of the new synchronizers.
	home.iae.nl /users/wbergmns/info/fw190.htm (13268 words)

	DELTA GREEN 1939-1945 : EQUIPMENT : ARMORED FIGHTING VEHICLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Same as the Turret MG, except that the machine gun is mounted on a pintle that allows the gun to be drawn up to aim at high angles and shoot enemy aircraft.
		The machine gun is fitted in a fixed position coaxial to the main gun in the turret, so that the machine gun is aimed in the same direction (-5% to hit).
		Usually, this means that the machine gun is mounted in a ball turret on the front hull of the tank, allowing the gunner to be fully-protected by the tank armor but with a very narrow field of vision (-10% to hit).
	home.comcast.net /~furrylogic/armor.html (516 words)

	HyperWar: Handbook on Japanese Military Forces
		Also their 7.7-mm light and heavy machine guns are built to use either a rimmed, semirimmed or rimless ammunition, which, with one exception noted in the following pages, is not interchangeable.
		This is a gas operated, air-cooled, machine gun with hopper feed which holds 6-5 round clips of ammunition (fig.
		Without removing the gun from its mount, the main portion of the tripod head can be moved from a horizontal to a vertical position, making a satisfactory AA mount.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/Japan/IJA/HB/HB-9-2.html (6552 words)

	MG 131 machine gun
		The MG 131 was a 13 mm machine gun developed in 1938 by Rheinmetall-Borsig and produced from 1940 to 1945.
		The MG 131 was designed for use at fixed or flexible, single or twin mountings in Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II.
		A pair of MG 131 machine guns was used as cowl armament on the Bf 109 and the Fw 190.
	en.efactory.pl /MG_131_machine_gun (208 words)

	Axis History Factbook: Messerschmitt Bf 109
		Early Bf 109F variants were armed with two MG 17 7.9 millimeter machine guns in the cowling and one MG FF 20 millimeter cannon mounted on the engine and firing through the prop spinner.
		The F-4/B was a Jabo machine with provision for 500 kilograms of bombs.
		It was also produced in a tropicalized G-1/Trop version, which replaced the MG 17 7.9 millimeter guns in the cowling with MG 131 13 millimeter guns for additional punch, in case the nose-mounted MG 151/20 jammed in hot weather operation.
	www.axishistory.com /index.php?id=1154 (8460 words)

	The Dornier Do17
		The nose was severely cut down and the forward machine gun positioned so that it had a complete arc of fire.
		It was this variant that was to see service throughout the battle of Britain and in operations during 1940 and 1941.
		One of the Do17 variants, was modified as a night fighter and had a nose section of a Ju88C fitted complete with cannon and machine guns.
	www.battleofbritain.net /0018.html (1286 words)

	Messerschmitt Bf 109 - Germany
		It was to be equipped with at least two MG-17 7.9 millimeter machine guns, and to have the capability of utilizing the new liquid cooled vee 12 engines under development by Junkers and Daimler-Benz.
		Some E models were equipped with four MG 17s, and the remainder were equipped with two MG 17s in the fuselage and two MG FF cannons in the wing roots.
		The Bf 109E-3 had a provision for a 20-mm MG FF cannon firing through the prop spinner, however the cannon had proved unreliable, due to overheating, and was seldom used operationally.
	www.aviation-history.com /messerschmitt/bf109.html (1908 words)

	uboat.net - Technical pages
		When fitted, the gondola, which was offset to starboard, housed a 20mm MG FF cannon in front and a 7.9mm MG 15 machine gun aft.
		Soon a number of variations in armament appeared, as the MG FF and MG 15 were replaced by far more powerful 15mm and 20mm MG 151 cannon, or the 13mm MG 131.
		Forward dorsal Fw 19 turret with a 7.9mm MG 15 machinegun, 13mm MG 131 machinegun in aft dorsal position, two MG 131 guns in beam positions, one 20mm MG 151/20 cannon in front of the ventral gondola, and one MG 15 in the aft section of the gondola.
	www.uboat.net /technical/fw200.htm (1213 words)

	The Focke-Wulf FW-190
		Replacement of the wing-root machine guns with the cannon required addition of a shallow blister on the top of the wing near the fuselage.
		The F-1 had reduced gun armament, with two MG-17 7.92 millimeter machine guns in the cowling and a 20 millimeter cannon in each wing, for a total of four guns.
		These machines were given a rear fuselage extension to compensate for the lengthened nose, which had been stretched to fit the Jumo 213 engine, and were armed with twin MG-17 machine guns in the cowling and an MG-151/20 cannon in each wing root.
	www.vectorsite.net /avfw190.html (7789 words)

	British Infantry Tanks
		Armament would consist of a machine gun and an overall speed of a walking man when moving.
		The army, using WW1 thinking, had this machine designed to meet a possible need for a tank to operate in a "shelled area" on the Western Front which in 1939 was expected to eventually look like 1918.
		The 1943 Crocodile was a converted Churchill Mark 7 that still retained it's co-axial Besa MG and the 75mm main gun in the turret.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~akirk/tanks/GreatBritain/BritishInfantryTanks.html (903 words)

	REME Weapons Collection - Machine Guns - 1
		A gas operated gun, it is fed by feed trays from which the empty case is reinserted before the feed tray is ejected.
		The reason for this tidy arrangement is rather mysterious, since the utility of feed trays with empty cartridge cases to a heavy machine gun crew in battle is as useful as a deep freeze to an Eskimo.
		One of many variations of the Madsen machine guns, which have been among the most popular in the world since their introduction in the early 1900s.
	www.rememuseum.org.uk /arms/machguns/armmg1.htm (1329 words)

	He 111H-11
		It had improved defensive armament with an increased number of guns, including the MG 131 machine gun and MG-FF cannon in a semi-fixed mount.
		The ammunition supply for the semi-fixed machine gun mount on Soviet bombers permitted 15 seconds of uninterrupted fire, whereas a German gunner could fire for 75 seconds before running out of ammunition.
		Engineer-Major Gribakin did not think that the German airplane was sufficiently armored in area and in thickness for protection against large-caliber rounds and projectiles (the weight of armor varied from 270 to 315 kilograms, depending on bomber modification).
	www.airpages.ru /cgi-bin/epg.pl?nav=lw50&page=he111h11 (545 words)

	World War II Sites - Linea Stalina \| Линия ...
		These were the MG room, the observation post with a periscope, the anti-gas room and Г- or П-shaped corridors to absorb the shock of nearby explosions.
		Inside the pillbox were the arms, ammunition, hand machine gun of DP type (ДП type) and carbines for defense against attack of assault groups, the system of the filtration of air and the system of removal of powder gases, the equipment for radio- and phone communications and devices for the internal communications.
		The garrison of the pillbox usually lived in a wooden shelter that was near the pillbox.
	www.ww2sites.com /index.php?action=jump&page=bylineastalina (752 words)

	Aviation Models: Germany
		BF109E was armed with two 13 mm machine guns and three 20 mm MG 151 cannons.
		Two 13-mm MG 131 machine-guns and two 20-mm MG 151 cannons, plus one 1,102 lbs.
		The aircraft was equipped with one forward-firing 13 mm MG 131 or two 7.92 mm MG 81 machine-guns, two similar guns in the rear of the cockpit firing aft and two below the fuselage firing aft.
	www.aviation-models.com /Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=AM&Category_Code=PSMWW2G (543 words)

	Warbird-Central.com - Warbird Information Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Development of the military counterpart continued with the manufacture of 10 He 111A-0 pre-production aircraft, based on the third prototype, but with a longer nose and armed by three MG 15 machine-guns in nose, dorsal and ventral positions.
		Developed in parallel were the H-series and P- series, the latter introducing in 1939 a major fuselage redesign which replaced the stepped cockpit by an extensively-glazed cockpit and nose section and, at the same time, moved the nose gun position to starboard to improve the pilot's view.
		The pre-production He 111P- 0 also introduced a revised ventral gondola, with the gunner in a prone position, and was powered by two 1,150 hp (858 kW) DB 601 Aa engines.
	www.warbird-central.com /german/bombers/He111/he111_history.html (1758 words)

	Junkers Ju 88 Fighter Variants
		This weapon reassembled a six-barrelled gatling gun and the modified aircraft was unofficially known as the Ju 88N or Ju 88Nbwe.
		Two MG 151/20 cannon were housed in the right-hand side of the nose, and four more located in a ventral tray under the left side of the belly.
		Armament: Four fixed forward-firing 20mm MG 151 cannon in ventral tray with 200 rounds each and one flexible 13 mm MG 131 machine-gun at rear of cockpit with 500 rounds.
	www.aeroflight.co.uk /types/germany/junkers/ju_88/Ju_88_nf.htm (3920 words)

	Blohm & Voss BV 138
		Three Junkers Jumo 205 D six-cylinder vertical opposed-piston compression-ignition two-stroke engines, each rated at 880hp for take-off.
		One 20-mm MG 151 cannon in bow turret, one 20-mm MG 151 cannon mounted in turret in hull tail, and one 13-mm MG 131 machine gun on open position aft of central engine, plus (optional) one 7.9-mm MG 15 machine gun firing through hatch in starboard side of hull.
		BV 138C-1 - delivered from 3.41, structural strengthening, four-bladed airscrew, a 13-mm MG 131 replaced the 7.9-mm MG 15 machine gun, and an optional 7.9-mm MG 15 could be added.
	www.feldgrau.com /bv138.htm (261 words)

	Eagle Editions Ltd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of Jerry's pet peeves is that the Fw 190 D-9 gun cowling and gun troughs for the MG 131 machine guns are incorrectly molded on all D-9 kits.
		Comparison shot of EP#41-32 and the Gun Cowling from the 1/32nd scale Hasegawa D-9 kit shown below, the EP#41-32 is on the left.
		Note the subtle accurate shape of the gun cowl bulges and the properly shaped MG 131 machine gun openings on the gun trough compared to the incorrect funnel shape from the kit, pictured on the right.
	www.eagle-editions.com /ep41.htm (283 words)

	History Channel: Wever's Influence--a Different ...
		Also, the need for the Russians to redraw large numbers of fighters and AA guns from the front duties in order to cover a huge territory.
		Not much bombers needed, the Russian were not prepared, lacked AA guns, radar, the fighters were on the front or around Moscow.
		Mediums had most of the same skilled positions as heavies; additional crewmen in the heavies were primarily gunners (I personally dislike the idea of carrying extra men just to man guns, except crucial positions like a tail turret).
	boards.historychannel.com /thread.jspa?threadID=800014044 (3474 words)

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