page_title: MG 08
section_title: Users
hierarchical_section_title: MG 08 / Users
caption_attribution_description: English: A en:MG 08 at the en:Canadian War Museum in en:Ottawa, en:Ontario. Photo of description plaque below. Photo of description plaque.
context_page_description: The Maschinengewehr 08, or MG 08, was the German Army's standard machine gun in World War I and is an adaptation of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim gun. It was produced in a number of variants during the war. The MG 08 served during World War II as a heavy machine gun in many German infantry divisions, although by the end of the war it had mostly been relegated to second-rate fortress units.
  The Maschinengewehr 08 —so-named after 1908, its year of adoption—was a development of the license made Maschinengewehr 01. The firing rate depends on the lock assembly used and averages 500 rounds per minute for the Schloss 08 and 600 rounds per minute for the Schloss 16. The gun used 250-round fabric belts of 7.92×57mm ammunition. It was water-cooled, using a jacket around the barrel that held approximately 3.7 litres of water. Using a separate attachment sight with range calculator for indirect fire, the MG 08 could be operated from cover. Additional telescopic sights were also developed and used in quantity during the war.
  The MG 08, like the Maxim gun, operated on the basis of short barrel recoil and a toggle lock.
context_section_description:  German Empire
   Nazi Germany
   Austria-Hungary
   Brazil
   Belgium
   Bulgaria
   Democratic Republic of Georgia
   Lithuania: About 800 MG 08 (7,92 mm sunkusis kulkosvaidis 08 m.) and 520 MG 08/15 (7,92 mm lengvasis kulkosvaidis 08/15 m.). Some MG 08 were modernized for anti-aircraft defense.
   Netherlands: Ex-German MG 08s confiscated at the end of WWI entered Dutch service in 1925 in the light anti-aircraft role, with the designation M.25.
   South Korea
   Republic of China: Made under license as the Type 24 heavy machine gun.
   People's Republic of China: Type 24 chambered in the 7.62×54mmR cartridge.
   Finland: MG-08 and MG-15 versions used by Finland as late as Continuation War.
   North Korea: Used Chinese Type 24 during the Korean War.
   Manchukuo: Chinese-made Type 24s
   Ottoman Empire
   Romania
   Serbia
   Spanish Republic
   Turkey: Used Turkish War of Independence.
   Norway
   Poland: in 1918-44, up to 5,964 MG 08 (ckm wz.08) and 7,775 MG 08/15 (lkm wz.08/15)
   Vietnam: Viet Minh used Chinese Type 24 during the First Indochina War, as did the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.
   Indonesia: Used Chinese Type 24.
   Malaysia: Used Chinese Type 24.
   Latvia
   Yugoslav Partisans
caption: An MG 08 at the Canadian War Museum.
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