ZB-53

Těžký kulomet vz. 37 (TK vz. 37)
     
Název:
Name:
ZB-53 ZB-53
Originální název:
Original Name:
ZB-53
Kategorie:
Category:
kulomet machine gun
Výrobce:
Producer:
DD.MM.1937-DD.MM.1939 Československá zbrojovka Brno, Brno /
DD.MM.1939-DD.MM.1941 Waffenwerke Brünn, Brno /
DD.MM.1939-DD.MM.1941 závod III Československé zbrojovky Brno, Vsetín /
DD.MM.1946-DD.MM.1949 závod III Československé zbrojovky Brno, Vsetín /
Technické údaje:
Technical Data:
 
Hmotnost nenabité zbraně:
Weight Unloaded:
19,320 kg 42.59 lb
Ráže:
Calibre:
7,92 mm
Náboj:
Cartridge:
8 x 57 IS
Délka:
Length:
1096 mm 3 ft 7 ⅛ in
Délka hlavně:
Barrel Length:
682 mm 2 ft 2 ⅞ in
Kapacita zásobníku:
Magazine Capacity:
pás na 100 nebo 200 nábojů / 100- or 200- round belt
Výkony:
Performance:
 
Rychlost střelby:
Rate of Fire:
500 - 750 ran/min 500 - 750 rpm
Úsťová rychlost:
Muzzle Velocity:
790 m/s 2591.9 ft/s
Uživatelské státy:
User States:


























Poznámka:
Note:
označení Československé armády: TK vz. 37
označení Wehrmachtu a Waffen-SS: MG 37(t)
Czechoslovak army designation: TK vz. 37
Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS designation: MG 37(t)
Zdroje:
Sources:
http://www.vhu.cz/tezky-kulomet-vz-37/
cs.wikipedia.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZB-53
modernfirearms.net

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MS heavy machine gun model 37 was constructed in brno armory, his license has been sold to England where it was produced the whole of the war, under the designation of BESA and used in british tanks. the photo is from the museum of the czechoslovak fortification on the object Quarry near Náchod..
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still some TTD:
Original name : machine gun model 37
German name : 7,92 mm sMG 37 or 246(j)
Caliber : 7,92x57
Tray : 100 or 200 rounds in a metal strip
Length : 1105 mm
The length of the barrel : 678 mm
Weight: 18,86 kg
Muzzle velocity : 792 m/s
Rate of fire : 500 or 700 blows/min
Manufacturer : Československá zbrojovka Brno.
Established as the standard heavy machine gun of the MS army after the occupation of the vyráběni for the German army, where he was a fairly widely used, was in service with the SS..
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Designer: Václav Holek.
ZB-53 - Kulomety vzor 37 s lafetou. Foceno v pěchotním srubu N-S 82 - Březinka.

Kulomety vzor 37 s lafetou. Foceno v pěchotním srubu N-S 82 - Březinka.
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Filling machine cartridge belt..
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Production name ZB-37.
Cadence (500 or 700 blows/min) is used to set the lever on the left side of the weapon. At the upper position of the lever (higher cadence), using the insertion of the end, shorten the length of the running end.
There were 3 variations, slightly different way lafetace - infantry, armored vehicles, and for the border fortifications.

Exports:
- China (infantry)
- Iran (infantry)
- Yugoslavia (infantry, tank)
- Cuba (infantry)
- Romania (infantry, strength)
- The united Kingdom (the tank engine).
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Version for fortification had a different barrel - smooth without ribs, but from the larger masses of material (something in the style of a heavy barrel for the UK vz. 59, but even harder Smile )

The barrel was designed to withstand continuous 5 minutes of shooting, which, in the cadence of 500 blows/min (lower) means 2 500 ran.

Besa is also in the Uk was produced in - for this country - kind of an unusual caliber 7,92 Mauser. It was because of the avoidance of the problems encountered in the reconstruction of a series of machine guns ZB 26 to poddoby BRENu. Besa had a pistol grip, the conclusion is stretched as well as in the UK vz. 59..
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In addition to the Czechoslovak was the gun used and the Yugoslav army (under the name Mitralez M40) and also the army of Romania.
The germans have used it as a sMG 37(t) (when it came to weapons obtained in CZECHOSLOVAKIA) or under the designation of sMG 246(j) if it was a yugoslav weapons.
Due to the fact that it was on the armament of the tank LT-38 (Pz 38(t) was in the use of other armies (to be Hungarian).
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I attach another photo. It is caught by TK.vz.37 with hloučkem direct the operator during the firing. In addition to the trained operator is another interesting detail of the plinth. This is a unique,pre-war design. The pedestal at the other photos are of war or post-war production.
The operation consists of the members of the HISTORY of Nachod from HP. 18..
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During his visit in the Museum of the Police in Prague 2 I took a pair of car.
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TK vz.37 "O" intended for fortification

photo exhibit in the collection of the Military museum in Králíkách..
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In the book "the Czechoslovak army, the pillar of the obranny of the state from the years 1932-1939" is a better picture version for fortification. Next photo we have provided the HISTORY of Břeclav.

Further in the book "the Czechoslovak army in the first postwar decade" was a photo in the service of the "people's" army.
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ZB-53 - TK vz.37 s těžkou hlavní

TK vz.37 s "těžkou hlavní"
ZB-53 - TK vz.37 - v majetku KVH Břeclav

TK vz.37 - v majetku KVH Břeclav
ZB-53 - Ve službách lidu

"Ve službách lidu"
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The heavy machine gun vz.37 the pre-war military base, which was originally constructed for the ZB-53.

Source: Magazine "Our troops".
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In the issue 9/2007 Our army was another picture of the TK vz.37, this time on a pedestal ZB 308..
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The photo with the members of the uniformed groups HISTORY Náchod is a ZB-53 on one of the experimental types of pedestals, as well as the first photo of Our army. I think this is even one and the same pedestal from the collections of the HISTORY of Nachod, but the poison would like for it did not take.

The last photo of Our army is the ZB-53 on a pedestal ZB-308, which was up to 17. 1. 1939 adopted into the arms of the as a base for vz. 37.

On all other photos is a ZB-53 in the war of the pedestal ZB-309..
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By the way, as far as I know, is the firing rate stavitelná at 550 ran/s or 750 blows/s.

Francev/Kliment – Czechoslovak armoured vehicles 1918-1948, Ares/Naše vojsko, Praha 2004
Ráboň/Gregar/Kachlík and team – Val on the defense of the republic of SPČO, Brno 2005
Kliment/Loading – Slovak army, Cheap books KMa, Prague 2006
Aaron and team - Czechoslovak fortifications 1935-38, Fortprint, 1998

http://bunkry.cz/opevneni.asp?id=62
http://www.bunkry.wz.cz/zbrane/tk37.htm
http://2svetovavalka.kvalitne.cz/zb_csr_ZB_37.htm.
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According to the book "Guns as Well. and II. world war" the authors of the In the.Dolínek, In.Francev and J.Check Aventinum publishing house is cadence 450 or 750 rounds per minute..
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Even to the cadence, resources (especially in the lower value significantly different enough.
Source : "Pěchotnoje oružije tretjego rejcha – pulemjety" issued by the publishing house "technology – Moloděži" in Moscow in 2005
indicates the cadence of 520/750 rounds per minute.
Additional source : "Oružije Vermachta" the author In the.N.Šunkov issued by the publishing house "Vojenaja technique" in Minsk in 1999
indicates the cadence in the range of 500 – 800 rounds per minute.
The book "The machine gun history, evolution,and developmentof manual, automatic, and airborne repeating weapons"from the author George M. China issued by the "Bureau of Ordnance department of the Navy" indicates then the cadence of 550 – 600 rounds per minute

From internet sources then this : http://www.dasheer.org.uk/machine_guns.htm
indicates the cadence of 500 – 700 rounds per minute, like this : www.accuh.com
or : www.badb.co.uk
I list only some of the resources on the cadence of them there are usually more, but it is not clear if one didn't find from the other..
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On the Spanish website : www.weaponeer.net
I came across the photo from the service of the machine gun Vz. 37 in the Spanish army. On other pages : www.elgrancapitan.org,
it is then stated that it was delivered 1000 units in two blocks after 500 weapons..
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Attendant ťažkého guľometu vz. 37 around the year 1950 in the teréne....
ZB-53 - Palebné postavenie ...

Palebné postavenie ...
ZB-53 - Presun ťažkého guľometu vz. 37  ©  Naše vojsko  1951  č. 49

Presun ťažkého guľometu vz. 37 © Naše vojsko 1951 č. 49
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Začiatok päťdesiatych rokov - ťažký guľomet vz.37 of the arms of the Československej army.


Source : Czechoslovak vojak 1951 no 34.
ZB-53 - Zbraň osadená na podstavec je určená na streľbu proti nízko letiacim cieľom.

Zbraň osadená na podstavec je určená na streľbu proti nízko letiacim cieľom.
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I don't know if start a thread for BESA separately, so far I'll put a photo here, the museum Koblenz, my archive.
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Ťažké guľomety vz.37 tvorili hlavný palebný prostriedok pechoty in rokoch 1945 to 1951.

ŤG vz. 37 bol stiahnutý of the equipment in rokoch 1954 and 1955.


Source : lt. TURZA, Peter Ručné vo weapons arsenal Ms. army in rokoch 1945 – 1965, ATOM..
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Source :

In. Schweik, Infantry weapons, 1957.
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ZB37 - export version, probably South America.

Source: Own photo - HISTORY of Liberec.
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ZB vz.37 on a baton in front of the Hůrka fortress
ZB-53 - vlastní foto

vlastní foto
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Exhibit from the collections of the Bastogne War Museum
(don't touch)
ZB-53 - Detail ražení Republica Peru

Detail ražení Republica Peru
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Exhibit from the collections of the Bastogne War Museum
(don't touch)
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Diskuse

Happy New Year to ALL!!

Here is a PDF file of the article that appeared in "Waffen Revue" some years ago. The editor was kind it allow me to copy this and post it on the WEB.

http://www.autochart.com/ZB37/ZB37.pdf

And here is a sad photo - This is what one of these fine weapons looks like after the receiver (body) has been cut to allow importation into the united states.

Note where the receiver has been torch cut in 3 places

Regards,
Orin

Translation:

I wish Everyone a happy new year.
Here you go .pdf file, in which there is an article, which some time ago appeared in the "Waffen Revue".

My publisher has kindly permitted it to scan and put on the net. (link)

And here is a sad picture. This looks like one of those beautiful weapons then what was the lock case cut (flame) therefore, in order to be imported into the united states.

Notice where and how was the case concluded in three places cut.

Hello
Orin


http://www.autochart.com/ZB37/ZB37-1.jpg.
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