Breda is a hardware factory located in Brescia, Italy. The company started producing parts for Fiat machine guns during the first world war; during the 1920s, Breda started producing a range of machine guns that were widely used by the Italian forces during World War 2. Breda Meccanica Bresciana, widely known simply as Breda, is a large Italian manufacturer of small arms and ammunition. ... For the Italian administrative area, see Province of Brescia Brescia is a city in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy with a population of around 200,000. ... Fiat S.p. ... A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. ... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America as the Roaring Twenties. // Events and trends Technology John T. Thompson invents Thompson submachine gun, also known as Tommy gun John Logie Baird invents the first working television system (1925) Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ...

The Breda machine gun family included infantry models, aircraft guns and 20 mm anti-aircraft guns. The two most common models were the infantry guns M30 and M37. American troops man an anti-aircraft gun near the Algerian coastline in 1943 Anti-aircraft, or air defense, is any method of combating military aircraft from the ground. ... The Fucile Mitragliatore Breda modello 30 was the standard light machine gun of the Italian army during World War II The Breda 30 is widely regarded as a poor weapon. ...

The M37 was a tripod mounted 8 mm heavy, crew served machine gun. It fired from feed clips similar to those of the French Hochkiss.

The 20/65 Modello 35 was a versatile belt-fed 20 mm machine gun that saw widespread use as an anti-tank and anti-aircraft gun during WW2. Large numbers of captured Modello 35s were also used by British forces in North Africa. A belt feeding into an M249 machine gun, from an Army training manual A belt feeding into a M1919A4 from a wooden ammo box A belt is an ammunition feeding device for a firearm. ... Anti-tank, or simply AT, refers to any method of combating military armored fighting vehicles, notably tanks. ... American troops man an anti-aircraft gun near the Algerian coastline in 1943 Anti-aircraft, or air defense, is any method of combating military aircraft from the ground. ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... The North African Campaign, also known as the Desert War, of World War II took place in the North African desert during 1940-1943. ...

See also

• Italian submachine guns