| MAC 1934 | |
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| Type | Machine gun |
| Place of origin |  France |
| Service history | |
| Wars | World War II |
| Production history | |
| Manufacturer | Manufacture d'armes de Châtellerault |
| Specifications | |
| Weight | 10. For other uses of the phrase see Machine Gun (disambiguation. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including 7 kg |
| Length | 0. 85 m |
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| Cartridge | 7.5 mm MAS |
| Caliber | 7. A cartridge (also known as a "round" packages the Bullet, Gunpowder and primer into a single metallic case precisely made to fit the The 75x54mm French MAS or 75 French cartridge was developed by France as an update to the 7 The term caliber or calibre designates the interior Diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod 5 mm |
| Rate of fire | 1450 rounds per minute |
| Muzzle velocity | 830 m/s |
| Feed system | drum or belt |
| Sights | Alkan 35 |
In 1934 the Manufacture d'Armes de Châtellerault (Châtellerault weapons manufacturing company, often shortened to MAC) completed the development of the MAC 1934 machine gun to replace the Darne mod. 1933 machine gun aboard aircraft of the Armée de l'Air. Rate of fire is the frequency at which a specific Weapon can fire or launch its projectiles A gun's muzzle velocity is the speed at which the Projectile leaves the muzzle of the gun Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Châtellerault is a commune in the Vienne département, in the Poitou-Charentes région of France Produced from 1922 to 1939 the Darne machine gun (officially known as mitrailleuse Darne mle 1933) equipped French aircraft until 1935 when it was replaced by the MAC 1934 The French Air Force ( French: Armée de l'Air (ALA literally Air Army) is the Air force of the French Armed Forces. Essentially a faster-firing variant of the mitrailleuse mle 1931, and using the same 7.5 mm MAS ammunition, the MAC 34 worked by gas operation and was fed from drum magazines. The Reibel machine gun (official French designation mitrailleuse mle 1931 - "machine gun model of 1931" was a Machine gun used on French Tanks The 75x54mm French MAS or 75 French cartridge was developed by France as an update to the 7 Two main variants, sharing common parts, were introduced:
- the type tourelle (turret model), fed from 100-round replaceable magazines, was used in flexible mountings, where it was generally fitted with an Alkan 1935 reflector gunsight.
- the type aile (wing model) fed from a 300- or 500-round drum magazine, was used for fixed mountings.
The MAC 34 could not be fitted with synchronization gear, and was more expensive to manufacture than comparable weapons, but it was compact and had excellent reliability. Interrupter gear is a term that covers two related technologies
Originally the Armée de l'Air favoured magazine-fed weapons, but it eventually accepted that the feeding system of the MAC 34 would require too frequent reloadings for dorsal gunners, and was impractical for wing mountings, so it required the development of a belt-fed variant. The resulting weapon was introduced in 1939, and designated as MAC 1934 M39. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The MAC 1934 machine gun equipped French aircraft from 1935 until the later 1940s. Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Like other rifle-calibre machine guns, the MAC 34 proved to be too light for combat in World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including A weakness of the MAC 34 was its operation at high altitudes. It was found that at altitudes past 20,000ft the guns had a tendency to freeze up. Heaters were added to the guns on the Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 to allow high altitude use. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The Armée de l'Air had plans to use several types of heavy aircraft machine guns, including an 11 mm variant of the MAC 34, but none could be completed before the Armistice. The French Air Force ( French: Armée de l'Air (ALA literally Air Army) is the Air force of the French Armed Forces. The Second Armistice at Compiègne was signed at 1850 on 22 June 1940 near Compiègne, in the department of Oise, between Nazi Germany
See also
Sources
- Danel, Raymond and Cuny, Jean. This is an extensive list of Small arms — Pistol, Machine gun, Grenade launcher, Anti-tank rifle — that includes variants This is a list of weapons which while not being mainstream were used in significant enough numbers to warrant mention Aircraft of the French Armée de l'Air and Aéronavale during the Battle of France in 1940. L'aviation française de bombardement et de renseignement 1918-1940 Docavia n°12, Editions Larivière
- Pelletier, Alain. French Fighters of World War II. Carrollton, TX: Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc. , 2002. ISBN 0-89747-440-6.
External links
- (French) Munitions et armement d'aviation France (includes photographs of all MAC 34 variants)
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