A Light Machine Gun for Independence: The Israeli Dror
The Israeli Dror Light Machine Gun was born during a time of necessity. What would later become the state of Israel was fighting off numerous enemies all around it and needed every weapon system possible. Through this endeavor, a sympathetic employer who formerly worked at Johnson Automatics helped supporters in the United States form a working copy of the M1944 Johnson LMG, fabricated in Canada, and then covertly shipped over to Israel where production was completed.
Unfortunately, the Dror had a number of issues in being an LMG design. It tended to be very inaccurate in fully automatic and extremely uncomfortable to shoot. It was very good as a single shot weapon but this wasn’t at all the design intention. In addition, it was only employed in 1951, years after the crucial fight of 1948 had occurred. Even then, only 3,000-4,000 production guns were actually produced and issued to the IDF.
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No such thing as Filistin in the 50's, don't adopt Arab misspelling, they have
no P in the Arab alphabet, that's why they say Balastin.
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https://youtu.be/276sHUxK4nk
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The non-Jewish people being held in Israel's concentration camp in Gaza need these for independence and to get their land back from the Israelis who stole it.