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The appearance of the Beretta M1918 seems to share some common with the super cute "Moschetto Balilla".
Here is a sourceful site about it:
l www.il91.it/balilla.html
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Yes you are right, it was assembled using the rifle stock of a moschetto 91 cavalleria and one of the two light machine guns of the Villar Perosa.
Great source
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You are right,it's an ingenious design.
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Great job my friend. Weapon industry during both world wars saw a rapid development considering the amount of money every country invested in weapons production!
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It really was the first total war which led to mass industrialization!
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Not to speak about the great progress in surgery, thousands of physicians formed then by treating the poor wounded soldiers, and probably modern plastic surgery was born at that time.
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As Hippocrates once said ''War is the only proper school for surgery''
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Wow!Great piece as usual.The way you draw guns are just AWESOME! I like the brass flare guns,they are very cute!
By the way it's good to see someone draw the Villar-Perosa at last,it is a rare subject of WWI books.
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Thank you my dearest friend, and I agree, the little brass rocket pistol are very cute indeed!
To draw a Villar Perosa is a nightmare, it has a very complex design!!!
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It's always my pleasure to see your high quality artworks!
The Villar Perosa seems more appropriate to be mounted on a armour car or a tripod.It's hard to imagine someone carry this thing walking around,no to mention shooting it hand hold.
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There are funny propaganda photos where the Villar was resting on the back of a bent soldier, surely a bizarre solution, normally it was used firing on lying down, and had a small bipod , and sometimes a shield, but this last was usually abandoned because it was too heavy. The Villar Perosa was called "Pernacchietta", which means little raspberry because of the noise it did when it fired.
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Thanks for the info!Very insteresting stuff indeed.
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ah That Moschetto is an interesting looking Rifle kinda looks like an Italian version of the M1 carbine.
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You are very right, the shapes that are similar almost always indicate the same use, as the M1 carbine this weapon was designed to arm gunmen, engineers and signal corps.
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Lol, a very strange little machine gun, that was modified to became the first world sub.machine gun: the Beretta M1918
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Another expertly drawn table!!
Have you thought of producing a book one day?
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Thank you very much, but I'm just happy to share my drawings with my friends.
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You're welcome!
I'm happy to look at your drawings!
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The Bodeo revolver looks dangerous, like easy to accidently shoot
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It was a rough and though weapon, but not so dangerous, it had a safety catch, and it was a double-action revolver with a quite hard trigger.
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Italian flamethrower, hah! xD that's cool but didn't they mostly fight in the mountains?
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It was true before Caporetto, then a very large part of the front shifted in the flatland, along the River Piave.
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Didn't several glisenti pistols of the 9MM model explode when fired?
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It was a very complicated and expansive pistol, but it was designed for the 9 mm Glisenti, a very underpowered cartridge, if it was loaded with the 9mm parabellum, that is identical in shape and dimension, it could really explode.
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