The KE7 light machine gun was designed by Pál Király and Gotthard End at the SIGsmall arms factory in Neuhausen am Rheinfall. Production commenced in 1929, with most weapons being exported to the Republic of China chambered for 7.92×57mm Mauser ammunition. The Chinese government purchased 3,025 from Switzerland between 1928 and 1939, and the provincial government of Guangdong purchased 200 KE7s with 4,000 magazines in December 1928. In 1933, Liu Xiang funded Huaxing Machine Works’ acquisition of machinery for a workshop in Chongqing. From 1933 to 1936, it would produce 6,000 KE7 copies. Three months after the war with Japan began, the workshop would be requisitioned by the Chinese government and produce ZB-26 copies after 1939.[2] The KE7 would be used during the Chinese Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War[3] and the Korean War. Some KE-7 machine guns were also made in other calibres for export to Latin America[1] and Ethiopia.[4] In 1930, examples were provided for trials being run by the British Army to find a replacement for the Lewis gun, although a modified ZB vz. 26 was finally adopted as the Bren gun.[5]
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Republic of China: Used at least 3,225 original and 6,000 domestically made examples.
7 vehicles and 2 infantry weapons. Well… the japanese one looks interesting, not sure it will replace my hotchkiss when I move it to BR5, but who knows.
Hope the Rzhev map is good with no obvious objectives open and ready to be abused by the new arty squads.
Other than that… not really liking how the game is basically war thunder porting the past five majors.