• The Lahti-Saloranta M/26 (alternatively LS/26) is a light machine gun which was designed by Aimo Lahti and Arvo Saloranta in 1926.
  • "The Lahti-Saloranta M26 Light Machine Gun was born through a design of the mid-1920s and saw service during the Second World War."
  • As mentioned Lahti-Saloranta M/26 was recoil-action weapon using short barrel-recoil. As usual to light machineguns it is equipped with a folding bipod.
  • The two did not get along well, and Lahti effectively designed the weapon on his own, with Saloranta helping on the bureaucratic side of things.
  • Most m/26 or Lahti-Saloranta lmg´s did not have possiability to use 75 rounds drums. For this as one can ee from your pictures, the frame of the gun had to have certain design to give space for drum.
  • ww2dbaseThe Lahti-Saloranta M/26 (LS/26) light machine gun design was originally designed by Aimo Lahti and Avro Saloranta in 1925.
  • The Lahti-Saloranta M/26 (or LS/26) is a Finnish light machine gun, designed by Aimo Lahti and Arvo Saloranta in 1926. Though often referred as pikakivääri (...
  • Lahti/Saloranta m26 Lahti-Saloranta m/26. Toiminta. Pikakivääri L/S-26 on lyhytrekyyli periaatteella toimiva kerta- sarjatulta ampuva konetuliase.
  • The Lahti L-39 is a Finnish 20mm anti-tank rifle used during World War II. Nicknamed “Norsupyssy,” Finnish for “elephant gun,” it had excellent accuracy...
  • In Finland, in the mid-1920s, the Lahti-Saloranta M/26 (LS/26) was developed as this weapon through the joint work of Aimo Lahti and Arvo Saloranta...
  • Lahti/Saloranta m/26 LMG. ... The Lahti/Saloranta model 26 is an automatic rifle / light machine gun in the same class as the Browning BAR.