MACHINE GUN MG 37T

The MG 37t rifle was a German heavy machine gun (heavy machine gun) made in Czechoslovakia, 7.92 mm caliber, from the interwar period and World War II. It was adopted by the Czechoslovak army in 1937, and its production finally ended in 1944. By 1942, more than 6,500 of these weapons had been manufactured. The total weight of the weapon was up to 22 kilograms, and the overall length slightly exceeded 110 cm. The theoretical rate of fire was up to 750 rounds / min. The MG 37t rifle was developed for the Czechoslovak armed forces by Wacław Holek at the Ceskoslovenska Zbrojovka AS factory based in Brno. It entered the armament of that army under the designation of Thesis coulometer vz.37. The rifle was to serve primarily as a fortress weapon and at constant points of resistance. After the capture of Czechoslovakia by the Third Reich in 1939, a large number of these rifles were used by the Wehrmacht, where they received the designation MG 37t. It is worth adding that in the German army it was used both as a fortress weapon and as a heavy infantry machine gun and tank rifle.