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The Modified Hotchkiss machine gun was a Greek improvement of the French Hotchkiss M1926 in turn an evolution of the Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun. Existing stock of French-built weapons was modernized before World War II in the Greek State Military Material Facility (EYP) of Athens. The main improvement involved the gun’s weakest spot its firing rate which in practice was only 220 rounds/min about half that of contemporary machine guns.