These days I am digging Solothurn's 20 mm weapons. Do you have additional pictures and info about their usage by Dutch Army?
Are you sure the anti-tank version was S-18-100 instead of S-18-1000 or S-18-1100?
Do they used/tried anti-aircraft weapons from Solothurn too?
Looks like Solothurn send a bunch of weapons in spring 1940, but they were stopped during the travel in the USA since it was too late to deliver them and, in the end, they went back to Switzerland.
Zaloga mentioned US Army evaluated S-18-1000, but gave up on the idea. Wikipedia reports that too:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._S-18/1000
I am curious to know if the US Army considered the weapons that were supposed to be delivered to the Netherlands or a more recent version.
Anyway, any additional info, either from the Netherlands or the USA is welcome.
If you have pictures from museums please contact me directly, I would love to get copies.
Massimo
In 1938 the Dutch army started ordering S18-1000 (the other info tell's S18-1100 ) rifle's
Concerning the rifle at Overloon, I don't know the correct version of the rifle and I don't know anything about it's history
- Massimo_FotiLooks like back on those days they've got their hands on some swiss surplus sales.
You can see one in action here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRSczKvw7ek
Massimo
I saved that ad from forever ago. Image title suggests it was from 1957. I bet if you'd bought one of those for $189, you could almost double your money now
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