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A water-cooled barrel improves the sustained fire ability of a machine gun by boiling off water into steam. This system prevents the temperature of the barrel from exceeding the 100° C boiling point of water. This keeps the barrel cool enough to prevent getting deformed. This comes at the cost of adding significant weight to the weapon.

Air-cooled barrels are lighter but also heat up significantly quicker and can get hot enough to melt. To overcome the overheating issue, modern GPMGs have quick change barrels for continuous firepower. Some modern fixed machine guns such as the M134 Minigun feature multiple rotating barrels.

The photo is a Fedorov-Degtyaryov LMG with a “Maxim-type” water-cooled barrel.

My highest kill count in a single game. Used the Automatico M1918 Factory, Villar Perosa, and Perino Model 1908 Low Weight.

How to understand the HK naming system

Prefixes: 1- mag-fed LMG, 2- belt-fed GPMG, 3- assault rifle, 5- submachine gun

Suffixes: 1- 7.62x51mm NATO, 2- 7.62x39mm, 3- 5.56x45mm, 4- 9x19mm

For example HK 21a1 = A belt-fed GPMG in 7.62x51mm NATO

Fun fact: The MP5 was actually known as the HK 54 before it was ever formally adopted.

The Villar Perosa essentially functions as an Automatico Trench with double damage output. Although the stats show it has only a 25 round mag and fires 900 rpm, because it has two barrels this is effectively doubled to a 50 round mag capacity and 1800 rpm fire rate. This makes the Villar Perosa the fastest TTK automatic in the game.

It was fun to use one of my favorite IRL weapons in the game. Because I’m a noob I never really get the chance to use BFV preorder weapons.

I bought this game on sale for $2 in May 2025, so my 1 year anniversary of playing BF1 is coming up soon. This goes to show that if you’re a new player you can still have fun and be competitive with the best.

This fake Villar Perosa is a mock up created by the Bapty & Co. movie armourer for the 1987 action movie The Sicilian, later used in the 1989 Batman movie, and perhaps most famously made an appearance in the 2016 WW1 shooter Battlefield 1 as an elite weapon.

Empires Edge might be the most criminally underrated map.

It could be argued that the Italians created the world’s first practical submachine gun that could be carried and shoulder fired by one man. The Germans and Italians both came up with this concept independently of eachother. By 1915 when the Germans decided that they needed “a new type of weapon” entirely, Italian Colonel Revelli had already put it in writing that his Villar Perosa double barreled LMG could be split in half and given a shoulder stock to be carried as a light assault weapon. This weapon would eventually become the O.V.P. 1918. The O.V.P. 1918 went into service with the Italian Aviation Corps by May of 1918, only a few months earlier than the MP 18.

Red Hood thinks hes so tough posting this just to spite him💔🥀