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The SIA M1918 machine gun was designed in response to the shortcomings of the Villar Perosa machine gun, featuring a delayed blowback automatic principle, air-cooled system, and a 660mm long barrel with a bell-shaped flash suppressor. Despite being named a light machine gun, it required a three-legged wooden tripod for stability, making it operate more like a heavy machine gun, and was not successful in combat due to its length, large magazines, and other factors.

Approximately 18,000 M1918 machine guns were produced by Italy by 1923, and they were used by infantry, mounted on airplanes, and used on light tanks during World War I and even into World War II, despite being replaced by other machine guns.

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