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Rifle
Kropatschek/Steyr-Kropatschek
Portuguese Kropatschek (Second from top)
Type
Rifle
Place of origin
Austria-Hungary
Service history
In service
1886 – Present
Used by
Austria-Hungary France Chile Brazil[1] Kingdom of Portugal Ethiopian Empire Russian Empire[2] Spanish Republic[3]
Wars
War of the Pacific[4] Revolta da Armada Federalist Revolution[5] First Italo-Ethiopian War[6] War of Canudos[7] Second Boer War World War I Spanish Civil War World War II (Portuguese colonies) Annexation of Goa Portuguese Colonial War
A Kropatschek is any variant of a rifle designed by Alfred von Kropatschek. Kropatschek's rifles used a tubular magazine (constructed of nickel-plated steel) of his design, of the same type used in the Japanese Murata Type 22 and the German Mauser Gewehr 1871/84. While designed for black powder, the Kropatschek action proved to be strong enough to handle smokeless powder.
The Kropatschek was the basis for the French Lebel M1886.[10]
^"ArmasBrasil - Carabina Kropatschek".
^"Scraping the bottom of the barrel blackpowder rifles of the great war part 1".
^"Foreign Rifles of the Spanish Republic, 1936-1939".
^Esposito, Gabriele, Armies of the War of the Pacific 1879-83: Osprey Publishing (2016)
^"O EXÉRCITO REPUBLICANO" (PDF).
^McLachlan, Sean (20 Sep 2011). Armies of the Adowa Campaign 1896: The Italian Disaster in Ethiopia. Men-at-Arms 471. Osprey Publishing. pp. 35–36. ISBN 9781849084574.
^VILLELA Jr, M E C. CANUDOS: memórias de um combatente. 2 ed. Rio de Janeiro: EdUERJ, 1997. p. 107.
^8x56 R Kropatschek Short - MUNICION.org (spanish)
^8x60 R Guedes - Kropatschek - MUNICION.org (spanish)
^"French Rifle Ammunition: 8mm Lebel and 7.5mm French". 7 August 2017.
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