The MG 131 was a 13 mm machine gun developed in 1938 by Rheinmetall-Borsig and produced from 1940 to 1945. The MG 131 was designed for use at fixed or flexible, single or twin mountings in Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II. A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Luftwaffe (literally, air weapon, pronounced looft-vaaf-feh) is the air force of Germany. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
It was installed in the Me 109, Me 410, Fw 190, Ju 88, He 177 and many other aircraft. (Bf 109 was the official Reichsluftfahrtministerium designation, though some late-war aircraft actually carried the Me 109 designation stamped onto their aircraft type plates. ... The Messerschmitt Me 410 Hornisse (Hornet) was a Luftwaffe heavy fighter of World War II developed from the badly flawed Me 210. ... Focke-Wulf Fw 190 in flight. ... The Junkers Ju 88 was a WW2 Luftwaffe twin-engine multi-role aircraft. ... The Heinkel He 177 was a 4-engined long-range World War 2 bomber of the Luftwaffe. ...
The MG 131 fired electrically-primed ammunition in order to sustain a high rate of fire when shooting through the propeller disk of a single-engined fighter. A pair of MG 131 machine guns was used as cowl armament on the Bf 109 and the Fw 190.
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