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L. <A new machine sun Sield manual was distributed to troop 
units in 1950. It is used in instruction within the machine 
gun and rifle companies of the 44th Gds Mec2z Rest, Vienna. 
it containsd tivo pictures of a new machine pun.* 


2. The lecend to the photograph on pase 75 of the manual, which 
shows the assembled machine cun without support (stanok}, is 
as f[cliows: 


Picture No 46 ~ full view of the TSB+53 machine gun 


Barrel 

Jacket 
and 4 Front anc rear device for attaching the bipod 
Magazine 

Cover piate latch 

Cartridre feed opening 

Tap -hole for attaching the antiaircraft sight 
Trigger mechanism 

10 Bolt handle 

11 Loedin: handle 

12 Trigger button of the safety device and fire-selector 

sight 

15 Lockin: spring of the trigger bolt 

14 Magazine cover 

15 Sightings device 

16 Barrel handle 


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4 Triggar mechanism 

4a Silencer (shep talo) 

4b Distributor 

4c Locking spring of the trirgsr bolt 
5S Magazine cover 

Sa Cover plete iatch 

6 Cartridge carrier 

7 Cartridse carrievhousing 

8 Bolt shaft 

9 Bolt housing 

9a through c Slide mechanism 

10 Eolt mechanism 

13 Recoil boost absorber of the bolt hous ing 
l2 Firins pin spring 

13 Firines pin 

14 Jacket 


Comment. Light 7.9=mm guns, model Brno 1986, were vsed 
dy S@veral Soviet units during World War it, They had been taken 
from Lithuanian Arwy stocks and had characteristics similar to 
the licht machine sun, model TSB -53, It sesns probable that 
the letter machine gun was a product of the Erno Arns Factory, 
Czechoslovakia, and has been issued to some Soviet units under 
the bilateral arms exchanrcs program between the U.8.S.R. and 
Czechoslovakia. See Annex for photosraphs of - Paze 75 and 76 
of the manual. 


Annex? a of -_ 75 and 76 of the manual. 


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