The following year, the factory began producing the first short rifles based on the German Gewehr 98 design, the Mauser Jelená. The new state received control of the Skoda factory in Brno, which was renamed the Brno Arms Works in November 1918. 24 rifleĪfter World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dismantled one of the new states to emerge from the ruins of the Habsburg Monarchy was Czechoslovakia.

24s, which had been captured during the German invasion in 1941, were later seized by Soviet forces, who in turn used them to arm the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War in the 1960s.ĭevelopment and service with the Czechoslovak Army vz. 24 rifles saw extensive service during World War II in multiple theaters, predominantly with the German and Romanian armies on the Eastern Front. During this period, several hundred thousand rifles were also built for the Romanian Army. Germany acquired hundreds of thousands of the rifles in 1939 when they occupied Czechoslovakia and pressed them into service under the designation 'Gewehr 24(t)' during the occupation, production of the rifles continued until 1942, when the factories were converted to the German-designed Karabiner 98k. 24 rifles, along with two other variants, through the late 1920s and 1930s, and later produced their own copies in the late 1940s. Nearly 200,000 rifles were purchased by China, seeing action in the Second Sino-Japanese War, which became part of World War II. Around 40,000 rifles were sent to Spanish Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War. These included contracts for several South American countries, most of which were 7 mm or 7.65 mm guns.

24 rifles to various countries across the globe, with variants chambered in the original 7.92×57mm Mauser, 7×57mm Mauser, and 7.65×53mm Argentine. Throughout the late 1920s and into the 1930s, Czechoslovakia exported hundreds of thousands of vz. 24 was chambered in 7.92×57mm Mauser like its predecessors. 24 featured a 590 mm (23.2 in) barrel which was shorter and considered more handy than the 740 mm (29.1 in) Gewehr 98 barrel. 98/22, also a Czech-designed derivative of the Gewehr 98. The rifle was designed in Czechoslovakia shortly after World War I, to replace the Vz. It was developed from the German Mauser Gewehr 98 line, and features a very similar bolt design.

24 rifle is a bolt-action carbine designed and produced in Czechoslovakia from 1924 to 1942. 7.92×57mm Mauser, 7×57mm Mauser, 7.65×53mm Argentineĥ-round internal box magazine, two-row, integral box, with detachable floorplate

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