Breda Machine Guns
The Breda machine gun family included infantry models, aircraft guns and 20 mm anti-aircraft guns. The two most common models were the infantry guns M30 and M37, and the Breda-SAFAT aircraft machine guns.
The M37 was a tripod mounted 8 mm heavy, crew served machine gun. It fired from feed clips similar to those of the French Hotchkiss.
The 20/65 Modello 35 was a versatile belt-fed 20 mm machine gun that saw widespread use as an anti-tank and anti-aircraft gun during World War II. Large numbers of captured Modello 35s were also used by British forces in North Africa. Breda-SAFAT in both 7.7 mm and 12.7 mm calibers was the standard weapon on Italian fighter aircraft of World War II.
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