Weapons · Italy · 1935-1945
Fiat-Revelli Modello 1914/35
medium machine gun
The Modello 1914 had been the Italian Army's standard water-cooled machine gun of WWI, designed by Abiel Bethel Revelli and built by Fiat from 1914 after supplies of imported Vickers guns dried up. Its original strip-feed system and underpowered 6.5mm Carcano cartridge were poorly suited to sustained fire, so in the 1930s many guns were reworked as the Modello 1914/35, rechambered to the more powerful 8mm Breda round with a revised feed, and the type soldiered on as a standard-issue medium machine gun through WWII.
| cartridge | 6.5x52mm Carcano (1914); 8x59mm RB Breda (1914/35 rework) |
|---|---|
| weight | 43.4 kg fully mounted (gun + tripod) |
| rate of fire | 200-500 rounds/min cyclic |
| range | 1,000m effective |
| produced | ~37,500 (Modello 1914, all rebuilt or retained into WWII) |
Mediterranean and North Africa, Eastern Front, Balkans
