War. : MG-08 and 08/15 versions were captured and used by French forces in WW1 and afterwards. : Used Chinese Type 24. : at least 11 light-weight MG 08s used by the Latvian Army (by April 1936) : About 800 MG 08 (7,92 mm sunkusis kulkosvaidis 08 m.) and 520 MG 08/15 (7,92 mm lengvasis kulkosvaidis 08/15 m.). Some MG 08 were modernized for anti-aircraft defense. : Ex-German MG 08s confiscated at the end of WWI entered Dutch service in 1925 in the light anti-aircraft role, with the designation M.25. Ottoman Empire : Produced the Type 24 under license. : From 1918-44, up to 5,964 MG 08 (ckm wz.08) and 7,775 MG 08/15 (lkm wz.08/15) : Used Chinese Type 24. : Chinese-made Type 24s : Made under license as the Type 24 heavy machine gun. : Viet Minh used Chinese Type 24 during the First Indochina War, as did the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. Yugoslav Partisans Conflicts Mexican Revolution Xinhai Revolution World War I Russian Civil War German Revolution Finnish Civil War Polish–Soviet War Spanish Civil War Chinese Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War World War II Korean War First Indochina War Vietnam War See also Weapons of comparable role, performance and era Bergmann MG15 nA Gun M1917 Browning machine gun Kjellman machine gun Marlin M1917 & M1918 machine guns Russian/Soviet PM M1910 machine gun Schwarzlose MG M.07/12 Vickers machine gun References Notes Bibliography External links 13 mm TuF variant MG 08 YouTube animation showing mechanism of MG08 machine gun 8 mm machine guns 7.92×57mm Mauser machine guns Early machine guns Heavy machine guns Machine guns of Germany World War I aircraft guns World War I machine guns World War I Austro-Hungarian infantry weapons Weapons of the Ottoman Empire World War I German infantry weapons World War II machine guns World War II infantry weapons of China World War II infantry weapons of Germany World War II infantry weapons of Poland World War II military equipment of Finland Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1908