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Note the strange half sleeve.... seems to be an original part but not to put on zb26.... any suggestion?
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Looks spot on for MG 34.
Thank you very much Jim!!
MG34 with ZB26 bipod????
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Looks like it was built specifically for it, maybe later during the war under forced labor and using what was on hand...?Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Bren
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May be Israel MG34 buy to Czech post WW2 ...
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MG 34 and MG 42 Machine Guns - Chris McNab - Google Libros
Certainly plausible...Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Bren
It IS an Ex Israeli Bipod for an MG34. I have had a few of these guns in the past, nearly all of them dated 1945.
They produced these bipods themselves, I assume as stocks of the original spares they must also have taken in to service. Eventually Dried up.
I spent a lot of money sourcing original Nazi pattern Bipods, to convert them back to their original pattern!
Thanks for the info Mike. I remember reading some years ago that a rather shadey US (could have been French) arms dealer "procured" MG34's from Eastern Europe and shipped them to the newly fledged state of Israel. No doubt in crates marked tractor parts!Quote:
Originally Posted by tankhunter
I think they were in an incomplete condition and taken from the factory (CZ manufacture) "DOT" was it???
For the life of me I can't remember the book, but it would explain the requirement for bipods.
Right of the starting blocks in 1947 Israel had the capacity to modify, adapt, adopt and improve just about anything. Amazingly adaptable people...
My Collector Friend MG34 with this bipod.https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...8c50d717-1.jpghttps://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...bdeee9d7-1.jpg
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Looks good just like that. At least you have one.
I buy this bipod to put on ZB26 Airsoft Gun.
The bipod that has this airsoft gun does not have the measurements as the original.
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Yes John, They were all DOT manufacture. All of them also had the Izzy Star with a crooked 'Y' in the centre. Property stamps.
Strangely, all weapons also still were fully Waffen Ampt Inspection marked as well.
You would have thought the Israelis would have removed them. As anything connected with the Nazi Regime, might have been a painful reminder of
The German 'Activities' towards the Nation?
A similar situation occurred with the Ex Nazi K98k Rifles as well. The Izzies rebarreled them to 7.62mm, but also left the Nazi Markings intact.
But they also, went to the trouble of Fire Branding '7.62' into the bottom of the Butt Stock area. To indicate the calibre conversion. Paradox?......
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Airsoft aeg ZB26 with original bipod and bren carry handle.
Need a wheathering process
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What do you thing? Like or unlike?
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Both very nice Luis...
Those MG34 with vz26 bipod was made in Zbrojovka Brno ( born place ZB machine guns, Bren, BESA, etc )Quote:
Originally Posted by tankhunter
Nazis moved production of the MG34 into Zbrojovka Brno in 1941 ( DOT is for Zbrojovka Brno ). Those machine guns with vz26 bipod was short rerun and assembled from stock components which majority was sold to new state of Israel. Czechoslovakia sold to Israel between 1946 and 1947 significant mount of weapons from pistols up to tanks and even fighter planes. One whole division was secretly trained in mountains away from any public eye.
The MG 34 was offered commercially by BRNO after the war because it was a gun they could build and for which they had a good supply of components. Most were sold to the Israelis, but others went elsewhere. Some were code dot45; I have seen at least one, near new, that was unmarked, and obviously came from the factory that way.
The ZB26/30 bipod is actually one of the best ever designed, a far superior unit to the bipod on the German MG 34 or 42. It is very steady, adjustable, spring-loaded, instantly deployed or folded and stays put.
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