Hey mofo squad how well do you know your weapons?
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AZsithlord_mofo
Pistols from World War 1 are some of the most eclectic of designs, evolution of sidearms was pretty stagnant prior to the turn of the 20th century, mostly revolvers and some Precursor automatics.
The War changed the mindset of countries armies and the conditions of the conflict saw a jump in technology.
You see this in the staggering amount of designs and calibers available at the beginning of the conflict, and the amount of stable platforms from wars end. To the victors we see stable and tested designs and new companies that flourished after the war and went to have the market share of the world's future conflict guns.
Fancy pants German pistol
Pistols from World War 1 are some of the most eclectic of designs, evolution of sidearms was pretty stagnant prior to the turn of the 20th century, mostly revolvers and some Precursor automatics.
The War changed the mindset of countries armies and the conditions of the conflict saw a jump in technology.
You see this in the staggering amount of designs and calibers available at the beginning of the conflict, and the amount of stable platforms from wars end. To the victors we see stable and tested designs and new companies that flourished after the war and went to have the market share of the world's future conflict guns.
The Mauser C96 (Construktion 96) is a self-loading handgun. It was one of the earliest self-loading handguns developed, and the earliest truly successful one, being adopted by many national militaries and remaining in service for over a half a century. The original weapon was chambered in 7.63x25mm Mauser, and fed from a 10-round integral magazine set slightly ahead of the pistol grip. It made use of a short-recoil system of operation.
Many variants and re-chamberings of the weapon were developed, including 9x19mm and .45ACP versions, cavalry variants with much longer barrels, variants that are fed from 20-round detachable magazines, and even a fully-automatic variant.
A precursor to the German made Luger pistol
The Borchardt C-93 is a semi-automatic pistol developed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893. It is one of the first mass produced semi-automatic pistols, with 3000 being manufactured over a 9 year period, and was tested by various armed forces soon after its introduction, including the US Army, Navy and the Swiss Military.
Despite this, the weapon was never adopted as standard by any power due to its production costs and unwieldy design. Nevertheless, the weapon was influential; the 7.65x25mm round used by the weapon served as the basis of the cartridge developed for the C96 Mauser pistol, while Borchardt's protégé, Georg Luger, went on to design the more commercially successful Luger pistol using the same toggle-lock mechanism used by the C-93.
Till next time MOFO's see you on the battlefield
Do you know how difficult it is to find hot girls with pre-world war 2 firearms?
Till next time MOFO's see you on the battlefield
