Lmg 25 | |
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Type | Light machine gun |
Place of origin | Switzerland |
Production history | |
Designer | Adolf Furrer |
Manufacturer | W+F Bern |
Specifications | |
Weight | 8.65 kg |
Length | 1163 mm |
Barrel length | 585 mm |
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Cartridge | 7.5x55 mm GP11 |
Caliber | 7.5 mm |
Action | Recoil |
Rate of fire | about 500 RPM |
Feed system | 30 round box magazine |
Sights | Iron |
The Leichtes Maschinengewehr Modell 1925 (shortened to Lmg 25) is a Swiss recoil operated light machine gun designed by Colonel Adolf Furrer of Waffenfabrik Bern in the 1920s and produced since 1925. It takes the 7.5 mm Swiss Service cartridge from a 30-round box magazine and has a cyclic rate of fire of about 500 rounds-per-minute.