Hotchkiss Mle 1914 medium aircraft machine gun
1/72 equipment Machine Gun MG
Mini World 7212
Material: Brass
UNASSEMBLED, UNPAINTED (check additional images)
Used on Schneider Ca1, TKS, Saint-Chamond, FT-17 Automitrailleuse White Minerva Armoured Car, by French Infantry during World War I and in 1939-40.
The Mle 1914 Hotchkiss machine gun became the standard machine gun of the French Army during World War I. It was manufactured by the French arms company Hotchkiss et Cie, which had been established in the 1860s by American industrialist Benjamin B. Hotchkiss. The Hotchkiss system, essentially formulated in 1895, is clearly the conceptual precursor to most gas actuated machine gun designs to this day.
The Mle 1914 was the last version of a series of nearly identical Hotchkiss designs : the Mle 1897, Mle 1900 and the Mle 1908. The heavy Mle 1914 Hotchkiss is not to be confused with the lighter Hotchkiss M1909 (the U.S. "Benet-Mercie" or the British Hotchkiss Mark I). At the beginning of World War I, the St. Étienne Mle 1907 was the standard machine gun of French infantry. However, due to inferior field performance by the St. Etienne, the Hotchkiss Mle 1914 became the French infantry standard in late 1917. The American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) in France also used the Mle 1914 Hotchkiss extensively in 1917 and 1918. Hotchkiss heavy machine guns, some being of earlier types, were also used in combat by Japan, Mexico, Spain, Belgium and Poland.
- Stock: 6
- Model: MINI7212
- Weight: 0.03lb
- DATE ADDED: 26/08/2009
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