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And with this all the Winter Siege pictures are finally uploaded.

CoD WW2 was made by Sledgehammer Games.

Breda M30

Potentially one of the worst machine guns ever designed, almost everything about this gun is a lesson in how NOT to design weapons. The Breda M30 was conceived with an unusual side mounted fixed magazine attached to a swivel joint and reloaded via 20-round stripper clips. Though designed as such to avoid the issue of damaged feed lips on disposable magazines, the feed lips of the Breda could be damaged all the same, rendering the weapon inoperable. The weapon overheat extremely quickly and required barrel changing often, which coupled with the closed bolt operation made the gun highly vulnerable to round cook-off. As if all of this was not bad enough, the weapon lacked an extractor and relied on an oiler to extract the rounds smoothly. This, coupled with the magazine opening to allow gunners to see how much ammunition they had left made the gun extremely susceptible to dust and jamming.
To top it all off the weapon was unnecessarily complex and had a pathetically low fire rate of 500 RPM, which coupled with the issues above caused the practical fire rate of the weapon to drop as low as 150 RPM.
Despite all of these issues and more, Italian soldiers kept using the Breda during WW2 due to the lack of better alternatives. The German army also used the gun after the Italian armistice under the designation MG099(i).

Name: Breda M30

Manufacturer: Breda
Class: light machine gun
Caliber: 6.5x52mm Carcano
Action: fully-automatic, 500 RPM
Ammunition type: swivel-mounted box magazine
Ammunition capacity: 20-round swivel-mounted box magazine
weight: ~10.6 Kg

Description
And with this all the Winter Siege pictures are finally uploaded.

CoD WW2 was made by Sledgehammer Games.

Breda M30

Potentially one of the worst machine guns ever designed, almost everything about this gun is a lesson in how NOT to design weapons. The Breda M30 was conceived with an unusual side mounted fixed magazine attached to a swivel joint and reloaded via 20-round stripper clips. Though designed as such to avoid the issue of damaged feed lips on disposable magazines, the feed lips of the Breda could be damaged all the same, rendering the weapon inoperable. The weapon overheat extremely quickly and required barrel changing often, which coupled with the closed bolt operation made the gun highly vulnerable to round cook-off. As if all of this was not bad enough, the weapon lacked an extractor and relied on an oiler to extract the rounds smoothly. This, coupled with the magazine opening to allow gunners to see how much ammunition they had left made the gun extremely susceptible to dust and jamming.
To top it all off the weapon was unnecessarily complex and had a pathetically low fire rate of 500 RPM, which coupled with the issues above caused the practical fire rate of the weapon to drop as low as 150 RPM.
Despite all of these issues and more, Italian soldiers kept using the Breda during WW2 due to the lack of better alternatives. The German army also used the gun after the Italian armistice under the designation MG099(i).

Name: Breda M30

Manufacturer: Breda
Class: light machine gun
Caliber: 6.5x52mm Carcano
Action: fully-automatic, 500 RPM
Ammunition type: swivel-mounted box magazine
Ammunition capacity: 20-round swivel-mounted box magazine
weight: ~10.6 Kg