German MG 15 Water Cooled Display Machine Gun: One Only Military Art Many other Mauser rifles were

Many other Mauser rifles were designed to use this system in the years after the introduction of the Gew

Few only uncovered at IMA having been set aside in 1996 and thereafter overlooked

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German MG 15 Water Cooled Display Machine Gun: One Only Military Art Many other Mauser rifles wereOriginal Item: Received from a museum quality private collection! (Please scroll to the bottom of the page for more photos.) This is one of the most unusual Machine Guns of WW2. Starting life probably in the late 1930s as an Air Cooled MG 15 Luftwaffe Machinegun used in Junker Bombers etc these were transferred to ground use for the Eastern Front some time after 1942. In the air cooled configuration at ground level however the high rate of fire caused