Retaliation and Retribution

As anticipated, the French Army quickly became concerned about the overwhelming amount of Machine Guns which the Germans appeared to be manufacturing. And as a result, they quickly began working on acquiring whatever variants of such weapons they could.

While also working on developing a machine gun of their own that could effectively counter the Germans should they enter the war. Bruno had suspected this would be the case. But while the French had a problem.

The 8mm Lebel cartridge which they made use of was difficult to feed in cloth or metallic belts. Due to the fact that it had been necked down from larger caliber rounds twice, it required a unique feeding system.

Meaning that acquiring maxims which were the most common form of machine gun in the world at the moment, was not a practical measure. After all, it would have to be chambered in a cartridge that was not standard to French Infantry.