tranham Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 (edited) German WWI 1918 Spandau Maxim 08/15 C&R belt fed machine gun Comes with complete gun plus 1 belt, 1 repro sling and 1 extra lock Shoots well. Mismatched with original finish. Water jacket has been repainted. $10000 plus shipping Contact Robert 615-418-2073 or tranham@hotmail.com I am helping a friend part out some of his NFA collection. Pictures https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bvy63qvnm91zewb/AAD-6MdDSiLH-L6nqJFD42CNa?dl=0 From wikipedia “A lightened and thus more portable version (of the MG08)— by "stepping-down" the upper rear and lower forward corners of the original MG 08's rectangular-outline receiver and breech assembly, and reducing the cooling jacket's diameter to 92.5 millimeters — was tested as a prototype in 1915 by a team of weapon designers under the direction of an Oberst Friedrich von Merkatz—the MG 08/15. The MG 08/15 had been designed to be manned by four trained infantrymen spread on the ground around the gun and in the prone position. To accomplish that purpose, the MG 08/15 featured a short bipod rather than a heavy four legged sled mount, plus a wooden gunstock and a pistol grip. At 18 kg, the MG 08/15 was lighter and less cumbersome than the standard MG 08, since the MG 08/15 had been designed to provide increased mobility of infantry automatic fire. It nevertheless remained a bulky water-cooled weapon that was quite demanding on the quality and training of its crews. Accurate fire was difficult to achieve and usually in short bursts only. It was first introduced in battle during the French "Chemin des Dames" offensive in April 1917, where it contributed to the very high casualty count among the French assailants. Its deployment in increasingly large numbers with all front line infantry regiments continued in 1917 and during the German offensives of the spring and summer of 1918. The MG 08/15 became, by far, the most common German machine gun deployed in World War I (Dolf Goldsmith, 1989) since it reached a full allocation of six guns per company or 72 guns per regiment in 1918. By that time, there were four times as many MG 08/15 light machine guns than heavy MG 08 machine guns in each infantry regiment. To attain this goal, about 130,000 MG 08/15 had to be manufactured during World War I, most of them by the Spandau and Erfurt government arsenals” Edited February 28, 2016 by tranham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranham Posted February 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2016 Reduced to $9000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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