The final order was placed in July 1938, as tensions escalated with Nazi Germany over the Sudeten Germans. Between 19, Czechoslovakia manufactured more than 775,600 rifles, with the first rifles entering service in 1926. 24 has a longer top handguard, and it retains a straight bolt handle. It resembled the German Karabiner 98k, which it predated by more than a decade. The vz.24 became the primary rifle of the Czechoslovak Army before World War II. That year, Brno Arms Works, which had been controlled by the Czechoslovak government, was privatized to encourage export sales. 23A, which consisted of newly manufactured components. The design was further refined into the vz. 23, a rifle with a 550 mm (21.5 in) long barrel that was initially produced with parts cannibalized from other rifles. Starting in 1923, Brno decided to develop a rifle based on the German Karabiner 98AZ, a shortened version of the Gewehr 98 with a 590 mm (23.23 in) barrel. 98/22 Short Rifle variant, though it did not see significant production. 98/22 in 1922 from the basic Gewehr 98 design, with a 740 mm (29.13 in) long barrel, along with a vz. Nevertheless, Brno developed the long vz. The original Gewehr 98 rifle featured a barrel that was 740 mm (29 in) long, which proved to be too long and cumbersome in the trench fighting of World War I. At least 150 of the rifles were chambered in 7mm Mauser, with at least as many also chambered in 7.92×57mm Mauser.
The following year, the factory began producing the first short rifles based on the German Gewehr 98 design, the Mauser Jelená. The new state received control of the Skoda factory in Brno, which was renamed the Brno Arms Works in November 1918. 24s, which had been captured during the German invasion in 1941, were later seized by Soviet forces, who in turn used them to arm the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War in the 1960s.Īfter World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dismantled one of the new states to emerge from the ruins of the Habsburg Monarchy was Czechoslovakia. 24 rifles saw extensive service during World War II in multiple theaters, predominantly with the German and Romanian armies on the Eastern Front. During this period, several hundred thousand rifles were also built for the Romanian Army. Germany acquired hundreds of thousands of the rifles in 1939 when they occupied Czechoslovakia and pressed them into service under the designation "Gewehr 24(t)" during the occupation, production of the rifles continued until 1942, when the factories were converted to the German-designed Karabiner 98k. 24 rifles, along with two other variants, through the late 1920s and 1930s, and later produced their own copies in the late 1940s. Nearly 200,000 rifles were purchased by China, seeing action in the Second Sino-Japanese War, which became part of World War II. Around 40,000 rifles were sent to Spanish Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War. These included contracts for several South American countries, most of which were 7 mm or 7.65 mm guns. 24 rifles to various countries across the globe, with variants chambered in the original 7.92×57mm Mauser, 7×57mm Mauser, and 7.65×53mm Argentine. Throughout the late 1920s and into the 1930s, Czechoslovakia exported hundreds of thousands of vz.
24 was chambered in 7.92×57mm Mauser like its predecessors. 24 featured a 590 mm (23.2 in) barrel which was shorter and considered more handy than the 740 mm (29.1 in) Gewehr 98 barrel. 98/22, also a Czech-designed derivative of the Gewehr 98.
The rifle was designed in Czechoslovakia shortly after World War I, to replace the Vz. It was developed from the German Mauser Gewehr 98 line, and features a very similar bolt design. 24 rifle is a bolt-action carbine designed and produced in Czechoslovakia from 1924 to 1942. 7.92×57mm Mauser, 7×57mm Mauser, 7.65×53mm Argentineĥ-round internal box magazine, two-row, integral box, with detachable floorplate
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