Thus, modern armament was lacking, so much so, that in 1939 when war broke out again, the material employed were the guns of the preceding conflict. The other weapons were adopted fifteen or twenty years later.
Of all the weapons studied, only the light machine gun was carried out quickly. rifles (both semiautomatic and repeater),.In 1921, a new program of armament for the infantry was drawn up, aiming to the creation of new models of a: Its conclusions revealed that the light armament was out of date and inadequate to the new requirements of modern warfare. In 1919, a military group was charged to study what the needs for the French Army would be for the years to come. The 1914-1918 war ended on November 11, 1918, but peace is fragile and the French headquarters were afraid of a possible resumption of the hostilities. It was also prone to repeated operational incidents because of the profile of the case of the 8mm Lebel cartridge that was incompatible with a correct feed by the magazine.īefore the end of the conflict, the French Army looked to adopt the American Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) and to manufacture in France the. It was a crude weapon, easy to manufacture, but badly protected from mud. In 1915, the Chauchat light machine gun was adopted, resulting from the model CS tested before the war. They had the characteristic to function by direct action of the gases to the bolt but this weapon remained experimental only.Ībout 1910, several light machine guns were tested: Hotchkiss light machine-gun (same as Bénet-Mercier), a CS (Chauchat-Sutter) for aircraft and others such as Berthier and Madsen. The first French light machine gun was created in 1900 and was invented by a military engineer named Rossignol, who also developed several models of semiautomatic rifles.
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