Standschütze Hellriegel M1915

Standschütze Hellriegel M1915
Type	Light machine gun
Place of origin	Austria-Hungary
Service history
Wars	World War I
Production history
Designed	1915
Specifications
Cartridge	9x23mm Steyr
Action	Blowback
Rate of fire	550 to 650 round/min
Feed system	20 round stick to 160 round drum

The Hellriegel being testfired in October 1915.

A soldier studies the Hellriegel's drum magazine while another carries the gun.

Standschütze Hellriegel 1915 was a Austro-Hungarian water-cooled light machine gun produced during World War I in very limited prototype numbers.

The light machine gun could be fed from standard box magazines, or from a large drum magazine which was not actually connected to the weapon and instead fed the cartridges through a flexible chute. The unusual appearance of this drum magazine has led many people to assume it is belt fed, however this is not the case with the rounds being unconnected from one another and are propelled along the drum and feed chute by a spring.

Little is known about the weapon, which doesn't appear to have progressed from the prototype stage.

External links

• Hellriegel photograph at the webpages of Bildarchiv Austria
• Historicalfirearms.info