The Leichtes Maschinengewehr Modell 1925 (shortened to Lmg 25) [1] is a Swiss recoil operated light machine gun designed by Colonel Adolf Furrer of Waffenfabrik Bern in the 1920s and produced from 1925 to the 1960s. [2] It was the first machine gun in the Swiss Army that could be carried by a man.

A light machine gun (LMG) is a light-weight machine gun designed to be operated by a single infantryman, with or without an assistant, as an infantry support weapon. LMGs firing cartridges of the same caliber as the other riflemen of the same combat unit are often referred to as squad automatic weapons .

It is chambered for the standard Swiss 7.5x55mm cartridge, and uses 30-round box magazines mounted on the left side of the receiver. Mechanically, the LMG25 is recoil operated and toggle locked, although it is a bit different than most other toggle locked designs.

The Furrer M25 (fielded as "Fusil-mitrailleur modèle 1925", "Lmg-25" or "FM-25") is a Swiss recoil operated light machine-gun designed by Colonel Furrer of the Swiss Arsenal in the 1920s and produced since 1925.

Jul 23, 2012 · We'll kick off today with a video showing you around a Swiss LMG-25 light machine gun we found for sale at Cornet & Company in Brussels (a better gun shop than any I've found here in the US, I...

Jul 24, 2012 · It is chambered for the standard Swiss 7.5x55mm cartridge, and uses 30-round box magazines mounted on the left side of the receiver. Mechanically, the LMG25 is recoil operated and toggle locked, although it is a bit different than most other toggle locked designs.

The Light Machine Gun 25 (LMG25) has a knee joint lock and shoots single and series fire. A bipod can be attached to the barrel jacket, another pod can be used as a center or rear support. Each Light Machine Gun 25 (LMG25) had two barrels (A-barrel and B-barrel) including the bolt.

The Lmg 25 is an air cooled, selective fired, magazine-fed light machine gun that fires from an open bolt (the barrel also is held back when gun is cocked, and it is released only when the trigger is pressed).

Feb 11, 2024 · source: manual of the swiss army "Technisches reglement No.2 Das Leichte Maschinengewehr (Lmg.25)" to print 7.11.1939, printed in 1940.

Jan 30, 2006 · Eidgenosse - What did you need to know? the LMG(19)25 was the standard light machine gun of the Swiss Army up to the issue of the Stgw57 assault rifle in the late 1950s. Every infantry squad had one. There is another man who carries extra magazines and the spare barrel.