May 202016
An article describing a little-known Austro-Hungarian submachinegun from 1915:
The ‘Standschutze Hellriegel’ Submachine Gun Is a Mystery
It’s an odd one… with a water-cooled barrel and the choice of either box or drum magazine. But the drum was pretty bizarre… it didn’t affix directly to the gun, but via a flexible chute. Now, if the chute was *really* long, like three feet, then the gunner could carry the ammo on his back. But it was only a few inches long, which would seem to make the thing pretty cumbersome and limiting.
