User:Eddy Browning/Schwarzlose Submachine Gun

The Schwarzlose Submachine Gun is a prototype firearm created by the German firearms designer Andreas Wilhelm Schwarzlose at the time of the First World War, currently the only example of which there is a record is in the Tula state arms museum.

Design
little is known about the weapon, being the only source of information some studies of the museum of weapons of the state of Tula in Russia. being those who possess what is presumably the only example of this curious weapon, which is based on the system of the Maxim machine gun. but mixing features of the Fiat-Revelli model 1914 machine gun and the Type 11 light machine gun, this submachine gun is fed by a clip of 10 columns each containing 8 rounds of 9 x 19 mm parabellum, which is inserted into the feed box of the weapon. When first loaded, the first column of cartridges is engaged by a kind of grid and drawn into the chamber one by one. After the tenth round is chambered, the entire magazine is shifted to the right so that the second column of cartridges is in position to feed upward. When all rounds have been fired, the now empty magazine is pushed out through a slot (with its own spring-loaded dust cover) on the right side of the feed box.

Operation
The mechanism of the gun is very similar to that of the Maxim machine gun, having the same toggle lock system operated by the recoil of this one, first the door of the gun's magazine box is opened, which has a safety latch on the upper part that is pressed on the left side. Next, the multi-column cassette is inserted, which has 10 rows with 8 9 x 19 mm parabellum cartridges each, then the door of the feeder box is closed and the charging handle is moved to the rear, this has a step that can be hooked to a lever on the trigger frame, acting as a latch to keep the bolt open.

this can be used for reloading the weapon, hooking the charging handle on the latch. inserting the magazine and lowering the latch so that the charging handle returns to its original position, closing the bolt and consequently loading a round into the chamber, at the moment of performing this sequence, a kind of feeder grid, raises the cartridges into the chamber at each backward movement of the bolt, After all 8 rounds in a row have been fired, a tab of sorts moves the clip to the right, now feeding the gun with the next row of ammunition, when all the ammunition has been fired, the empty clip exits through a small spring-loaded door on the right side of the weapon. It should be noted that this clip can be removed from the weapon by opening the door of the feeder box and pressing a button on the left side of the weapon to remove the unfinished clip.

Purpose on the battlefield
This submachine gun was intended to be a high capacity automatic weapon for suppressive fire, which could be used either as a fixed weapon attached to a shovel mount into the ground or as a weapon that could be fired from the shoulder or hip. which for obvious reasons was not practical, finally this submachine gun was discarded as unnecessary due to its complex mechanism, impracticality and the unnecessary amount of ammunition for a weapon of its type, being very uncomfortable to use by the large magazine and the weight of it, which unlike its "partner" the Bergmann MP-18. was not suitable for use as a weapon in the battlefield.

In Pop culture
The Schwarzlose Submachine Gun appears as a weapon in the first person shooter video game Battlefield 1 of DICE and EA, with the name of SMG 08/18. This having similarities with the Maxim MG 08/18 in this video game can be used as a main weapon, being correctly fed by the clip of 80 cartridges, this shows us the operation of the weapon, the curious thing is that the sights of the weapon are incorrect, since in reality the sights are two folding posts, this due to the angle of the buttstock of the gun.