The MG 15 was a German 7.92 mm machine gun designed specifically as a hand-manipulated defensive gun for combat aircraft during the early 1930s. By 1941 it was replaced by other types and found new uses with ground troops.

2017年10月29日 · The MG-15 was the first standard flexible-mounted aircraft machine gun adopted by the Luftwaffe in the 1930s. Both it and the MG-17 are evolved form a Rheinmetall/Solothurn design which would also become the Austrian and Hungarian M30 infantry light machine guns.

The MG 15 was a German machine gun primarily used during World War II, particularly in aircraft. It was designed and manufactured by the renowned German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall …

2016年5月9日 · The MG 15 machine gun served the German Luftwaffe (Air Force) heading into, and during, World War 2 (1939-1945). It was derived from a 1932 initiative and born from the existing, earlier MG 30 model that originated in Switzerland.

The MG 15 was a German 7.92 mm machine gun designed specifically as a hand manipulated defensive gun for combat aircraft during the early 1930s. By 1941 it was replaced by other types and found new uses with ground troops.

The MG 15 was a German 7.92 mm (0.31 in) machine gun designed specifically as a hand manipulated defensive gun for combat aircraft during the early 1930s. By 1941 it was replaced by other types and found new uses with ground troops.

2024年12月29日 · The Rheinmetall MG 15 machine guns were very commonly used on German military aircraft at the start of WW2. They were typically mounted on flexible mounts as defensive armament, and were fed from double drums each holding 75 …

MG 15 7.92 mm light machine gun, 1941 (c) Manufactured by Heinrich Krieghoff Waffenfabrik of Suhl, the German MG 15 was originally designed as a defensive weapon for the Luftwaffe's aircraft. It had a firing rate of 1,000 rounds a minute and …

The MG15 was the standard flexible-mount machine gun of the German air force at the outbreak of the Second World War. As such, it formed the main defensive armament of German bombers from 1939 until 1941.

As an aircraft weapon, the machine gun was designed to be mounted on a system for use by air gunners to attack targets around the aircraft. These weapon stations are used on specific types of bombers (such as the Heinkel He 111) that require multiple crew positions.