The Chauchat-Ribeyrolles 1918 submachine gun is a French prototype automatic weapon.
In 1917, the
French Army
The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (french: Armée de Terre, ), is the land-based and largest component of the French Armed Forces. It is responsible to the Government of France, along with the other components of the Armed For ...
adopted the
Mle. 1917 semi-automatic rifle
A semi-automatic rifle is an autoloading rifle that fires a single cartridge with each pull of the trigger, and uses part of the fired cartridge's energy to eject the case and load another cartridge into the chamber. For comparison, a bolt-act ...
made by Ribeyrolles, Sutter and Chauchat (RSC), who already developed the "
Chauchat
The Chauchat ("show-sha", ) was the standard light machine gun or "machine rifle" of the French Army during World War I (1914–18). Its official designation was "Fusil Mitrailleur Modele 1915 CSRG" ("Machine Rifle Model 1915 CSRG"). Beginning i ...
" Mle. 1915 LMG.
In 1918, they presented a "pistolet-mitrailleur" (submachine gun), meant to be used for close-range protection for the French tank crews. The weapon is based on the RSC Mle. 1917 semi-automatic rifle mechanism. The first trials used a
Mannlicher–Berthier clip holding eight cartridges. The trials continued until 1919 with a weapon using the same magazine as the Chauchat. The results were satisfactory but the weapon was too powerful for the intended self-protection use. A mix of standard and
tracer bullets was planned to be used to assist in aiming.
See also
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Ribeyrolles 1918 automatic carbine
The Ribeyrolles 1918 was an attempt to manufacture an automatic rifle for the Military of France, French forces. It was chambered in the experimental 8×35mm Cartridge (firearm), round, used straight blowback, was fed from a 25-round detachable ...
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M231 Firing Port Weapon
The M231 Firing Port Weapon (FPW) is an adapted version of the M16 assault rifle for shooting from firing ports on the M2 Bradley. The M16, standard infantry weapon of the time, was too long for use in a "buttoned up" APC, so the FPW was devel ...
References
has info from cf
Ribeyrolles 1917 at securityarms.com
Further reading
* {{cite book, author=Jean Huon, title=Les pistolets mitrailleurs français, year=2007, publisher=Editions Crépin-Leblond, isbn=978-2-7030-0300-7
External links
pictures (2nd and 3rd)
World War I French infantry weapons
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