The MG 13 (shortened from German Maschinengewehr 13) was a German general-purpose machine gun obtained by rebuilding a World War I water-cooled machine gun the little-known Dreyse 1918 into an air-cooled version.[citation needed]The MG 13 was introduced into service in 1930 where it served as the standard light machine gun.[citation needed] It was superseded by cheaper faster firing models: the MG 34 and then later the MG 42.
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length (km)
1.443
weight (kg)
13300.0
origin
Weimar Republic
type
Machine gun
used in war
Chinese Civil War, World War II, Second Sino-Japanese War, Portuguese Colonial War, Spanish Civil War
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