💥 La mitrailleuse Hotchkiss Adoptée par l’armée française au début de la Première Guerre mondiale, la Hotchkiss Mle 1914 est une mitrailleuse à air refroidi chambrée en 8 mm Lebel. Robuste et fiable, elle a équipé l’infanterie française sur tous les fronts du conflit, puis a continué à servir jusqu’à la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Conçue par la société Hotchkiss à Saint-Denis, elle se distingue par son système d’alimentation à bandes rigides métalliques de 24 ou 30 cartouches. Sa cadence de tir av

The French Hotchkiss Model 1914 machine gun was the last of the Hotchkiss machine gun line born in the late 1800s. Model 1914 machine guns also armed early French combat tanks of the First World War including the famous Renault FT. This Hotchkiss M1914 is the same as the Weald Foundation Renault FT. This was described, by some, as the Wurlitzer design of machine guns in World War I. Here you can see a great video of a Hotchkiss Model 1914 machine gun owned by Battlefield Vegas. After a little TL

This Hotchkiss machine gun and its tripod are lot #2027 in the upcoming April 2019 Morphy auction: https://auctions.morphyauctions.com/_N__HISTORIC_WORLD_WAR_I_FRENCH_MODEL_1914_HOTCHKI-LOT460942.aspx The gun that became the Hotchkiss 1914 and served as the bulwark of French and American forces in World war One was actually first designed and patented by an Austrian officer; Adolph von Odkolek. He took his idea to the Hotchkiss company in Paris hoping to arrange for them to produce it under lice