Tags: Weapon.
The ZB-53 was a Czechoslovak machine gun. A versatile weapon it was used both as a squad support weapon as a mounted machine gun for tanks and other armoured vehicles and on fixed positions inside Czechoslovak border fortifications. Adopted before the World War II by the armies of Czechoslovakia (as TK vz. 37) and Romania it was also license-built in the United Kingdom as the Besa machine gun.
