WWII Austrian Schwarzlose

[Lobezno001]

Greetings chaps,

Does anyone know a great site where I can get more information on this particular WWII water-cooled machine gun? I'd really like to know what this thing is worth and how much of an impact it had on the war, not to mention some more specs than what I already know (which is VERY little)

thanks all,

Lobez

[CanadianGlockFan]

The Schwarzlose is actually a FIRST World War design (usually known as the 1907/12, or 07/12) built in Austria, but it was used by second-line troops during WW2, especially after the Axis had to start scrounging for MGs. They made a couple of different variations of this design (mainly water-cooled, but there were a few air-cooled aircraft versions during WW1). Here's an Italian page on it for re-enactors; http://www.kuk-ir97.com/la_sezione_mitragliatrice_del_k.html

Translated version; http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kuk-ir97.com%2Fla_sezione_mitragliatrice_del_k.html&langpair=it%7Cen&hl=en&c2coff=1&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

[Lobezno001]

That's a great help, thanks for the link.

Regards,

Lobez