In fact, Beretta’s version was the work of none other than Tullio Marengoni – he would continue to work at Beretta for decades, and produce many of their most iconic pistol and submachine gun designs.Īnyway, both efforts were based on splitting the Villar Perosa into two separate receivers, and then designing a stock, sights, and trigger mechanism to make them viable shoulder weapons.
The Officine Villar Perosa (who had manufactured the 1915 gun in the first place) did one version, and Beretta did the other.
The Beretta M1918 was one of two simultaneous efforts to turn the M1915 Villar-Perosa machine gun into a more practical weapon.
