Beltfed Madsen LMG: When the Weird Gets Weirder

Get Entered to WIN this incredible Madsen LMG! DEADLINE to ENTER is 11/24/23 @ 11:59pm (PST). First produced in 1902, the Madsen was one of the first practical light machine guns, and it remained in production for nearly 5 decades. The Madsen system is a rather unusual recoil-operated mechanism with a tilting bolt and a remarkably short receiver. The most unusual variation on the system was the belt-fed, high rate-of-fire pattern developed for aircraft use. This program was initiated by the Danish Air Force in the mid 1920s, and several different patterns were built by the time World War Two erupted. The model here was actually a pattern that was under production for Hungary when German forces occupied Denmark. Taking over the factory, they continued the production and the guns went to the Luftwaffe for airfield defensive use. In order to use disintegrating links instead of box magazines, some very odd modifications had to be mad