Lmg 25

Lmg 25
Type Light machine gun
Place of origin Switzerland
Production history
Designer Adolf Furrer
Manufacturer W+F Bern
Specifications
Weight 8.65 kg
Length 1163 mm
Barrel length 585 mm

Cartridge 7.5x55 mm GP11
Caliber 7.5 mm
Action Recoil
Rate of fire about 500 RPM
Feed system 30 round box magazine
Sights Iron

The Leichtes Maschinengewehr Modell 1925 (shortened to Lmg 25) is a Swiss recoil operated light machine gun designed by Colonel Adolf Furrer of Waffenfabrik Bern in the 1920s and produced since 1925. It takes the 7.5 mm Swiss Service cartridge from a 30-round box magazine and has a cyclic rate of fire of about 500 rounds-per-minute.

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