and Type 92 machine guns, which were used up until the end of the Second World War.

Articulated feed belt

Though feed strips were replaced by most militaries with machine guns using either disintegrating or non-disintegrating belts and detachable magazines, the Hotchkiss feed strip design pioneered an early 50-round articulated belt-fed mechanism made up of articulated pieces of metal that folded together, resembling conventional feed strips; this feed device has only been

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