Original title : Machine gun ZB 30J, Puska-Mitralez M37
German name : 7,92 mm LeMG 148(j)
Calibre : 7,92x57
Magazine : 20 rounds
Length : 1200 mm
Barrel length : 600 mm
Weight : 9,5 kg
Velocity : 762 m/s
Rate of fire : 500 to 550 rounds/min.
Manufacturer : Československá zbrojovka Brno.
Introduced as a standard light machine gun by the Yugoslav army, in addition to being purchased, it was reportedly manufactured at the armoury in Kragujevac. It was also used in the SS armament mainly on the territory of Yugoslavia. It is one of the most successful designs of the machine gun family based on the vz.26, the armoury was forced by strong competition to reconstruct the weapon according to the customer's wishes and also to take older vz.26 machine guns as a counter-account, so the action was not very successful commercially, but it is a very successful weapon. The reconstruction was forced by the characteristics of the ammunition used. Besides Yugoslavia, the weapon was exported to Bolivia, Afghanistan and Venezuela.
Source : Czechoslovak Small Arms and Machine Guns, M. Šáda, published by Naše Vojsko in 1971, ISBN not specified
Small arms, Artillery and special weapons of the Third Reich by Terry Gander and Peter Chamberlain published by Macdonald and Jane's, London 1978 (first edition) ISBN 0 354 01108 1
German name : 7,92 mm LeMG 148(j)
Calibre : 7,92x57
Magazine : 20 rounds
Length : 1200 mm
Barrel length : 600 mm
Weight : 9,5 kg
Velocity : 762 m/s
Rate of fire : 500 to 550 rounds/min.
Manufacturer : Československá zbrojovka Brno.
Introduced as a standard light machine gun by the Yugoslav army, in addition to being purchased, it was reportedly manufactured at the armoury in Kragujevac. It was also used in the SS armament mainly on the territory of Yugoslavia. It is one of the most successful designs of the machine gun family based on the vz.26, the armoury was forced by strong competition to reconstruct the weapon according to the customer's wishes and also to take older vz.26 machine guns as a counter-account, so the action was not very successful commercially, but it is a very successful weapon. The reconstruction was forced by the characteristics of the ammunition used. Besides Yugoslavia, the weapon was exported to Bolivia, Afghanistan and Venezuela.
Source : Czechoslovak Small Arms and Machine Guns, M. Šáda, published by Naše Vojsko in 1971, ISBN not specified
Small arms, Artillery and special weapons of the Third Reich by Terry Gander and Peter Chamberlain published by Macdonald and Jane's, London 1978 (first edition) ISBN 0 354 01108 1
