The Fiat–Revelli Modello 1914 was an Italian water-cooled medium machine gun produced from 1914 to 1918. It was the standard machine-gun of the Italian Army in World War I, and was used in limited numbers into World War II. [2]

By late 1915, new aircraft were being introduced into Italian service, all of which required machine guns for defense. As to be expected, the standard army gun was adopted, the FIAT Revelli Model 1914.

The M1914 Fiat-Revelli was the standard Italian ground and aircraft machine gun during World War One.

2012年9月21日 · In 1914 at the outbreak of war, Italy adopted the Fiat-Revelli M1914 – a particularly funky machine gun. The Italian military put up with it through World War I because they didn’t have many other realistic options, but the gun would be significantly revised during the inter-war years and re-adopted as the M1935.

2017年6月2日 · The FIAT-Revelli Modello 1914 (Machine Gun, System Revelli, Model 14) was the first large-scale indigenously-designed and developed Italian machine gun. However, the system was a bizarre mix of design decisions that ultimately made for an unreliable weapon system during World War 1 (1914-1918).

Produced in Italy, the Fiat-Revelli M1914 was the country's first mass produced machine gun. It was designed in 1908 and bought for use by the Italian army in 1914 as Army Chief of Staff Luigi Cadorna worked to prepare the Italian Army for eventual war, …

The Fiat-Revelli M35 was an interwar update to the M14 designed during a fad for middle-weight "heavy" machine guns using an enlarged high-velocity rifle-like round, in this case the 8x59mm Breda which threw out a 208-grain bullet at 2,525 feet per second. While the heart of the system was the same as the M14, there were overall functional ...

2020年12月9日 · Adopted as the Modello 1914, Revelli’s machine gun was a delayed blowback system with a wedge under mechanical disadvantage holding the bolt closed long enough to safety cycle. Its most unique element was the 50-round mousetrap type box magazine that used 10 independent stacks of 5 rounds each (a 100-round version was also made).

2019年7月31日 · The FIAT-Revelli Model 1915 - better known as the "Villar Perosa" - became (from a technical standpoint) the first submachine gun ever adopted by a national power for it fired a pistol cartridge through an automatic action and was of a highly portable design.

2020年5月29日 · In 1935, the conversion of old machine guns to the Fiat–Revelli Modello 1935 began. The new design eliminated the “cage” feeding system. Fiat replaced it with a classical fee-belt, thus maintaining the ineffective oiling system. A lighter air-cooling system replaced the cumbersome water-cooling system, making the gun easier to handle.