The Besa machine gun was a British version of the Czechoslovak ZB-53 air-cooled, belt-fed machine gun (called the TK vz. 37 in the Czechoslovak army [note 1]). The name came from the Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA), who signed an agreement with Československá zbrojovka to manufacture the gun in the UK.

2021年10月24日 · Cartridges 1 & 2 are meant for the pre-WW2 designed Czech 15x104mm ZB vz/60 MG heavy machine gun, built and used in licence in the UK as the Besa MkII, as...

Developed by BSA from the Czechoslovak ZB vz.60 heavy machine gun which used 15mm ammunition. This 15mm gun was used in the armoured divisions as their supply lines were separated from the infantry who used .303 bullets. Once the British started capturing German ammunition this could be immediately used in these tank machine guns. Manufactured

2017年6月12日 · The 15mm Besa was a long and heavy gun, weighing over 125lbs and being more than 6 feet long: It was therefore used mostly to arm wheeled armoured scout cars, such as the Humber: The round has a 1160 grain bullet fired from a 15x104mm cartridge: I believe that this is a ball round, and it has a boattailed shape, the round being filled with a ...

2019年9月14日 · The BESA fired a 15x104 cartrige, the MG 151 a 15x96 (but as was slightly thicker at the rim it was probably very similar in charge) and the cartrige of the MG 131 was "just" 13x64,

2012年6月5日 · British BSA based on the Czech machine gun ZB-60 developed the 15-mm machine gun, which in June 1940 of the year was adopted as “Beza 15 mm” Mk 1 for armored vehicles and light tanks. The machine gun was remade chambered for 15x104, had the ability to conduct a single fire.

Náboj byl vyvinut kolem roku 1938 ve Zbrojovce Brno a pro těžký kulomet montovaný do obrněných vozidel. Náboj i kulomet vykazovaly velmi dobré vlastnosti a krátce po zkouškách byly přijaty i armádou Velké Británie, kde byly také licenčně vyráběny. Po... Show all. Zbrojovka Brno závod III. Vsetín protektorát Čechy a Morava. Zbrojovka Brno závod III.

Military Guns and Ammunition - 15mm BESA - The Besa 15 mm was produced only in one mark and an attempt to convert the weapon to 20 mm calibre, to permit the use of the Hispano-Suiza 20 mm cartridge, was abandoned. This little passage comes from a post on the internet.

2017年11月16日 · This weapon was developed by Czechoslovak designers from the late twenties. In the 1937, the British Army received a modification of such a machine gun chambered for 15x104 mm. The machine gun could be used by infantry, as well as on various armored vehicles. At the same time, the installation of such a machine gun on aircraft was virtually ...

This is a WW2 British unfired 15mm BESA machine gun armour piercing round used in 15mm machine gun fitted to the Light Tank Mk VIC and the Humber Armoured Car Marks I – III. The bullet is boat tailed with a gilding metal envelope with a lead/antimony tip filler and hard steel core.