>Пускай бы с ленточным, но под стандартный армейский патрон 7,69, под который и БРЕН и Виккерс и Энфилды. Зачем городить оружие под принципиально такой-же, но другой патрон?
In 1937 the British army began looking for an air-cooled replacement for the Vickers machine-gun for use in infantry battalions and in tanks, and the Czech ZB vz/53 (also called the vz/37) designed by Vaclav Hoiek was chosen. The original intention was to have it redesigned to take the rimmed .303-in (7.7-mm) cartridge, but time was short and it was decided to forgo its infantry application and adopt it for tank use only in its original 7.92-mm (0.312-in) chambering, which then required a supply of 7.92-mm ammunition. This was less of a disadvantage for tank use than it would have been had the weapon seen wider application. Arrangements were made to have the gun manufactured by the BSA company under licence, hence the name BESA. The first production guns were be issued to the army late in 1939.
сперва собирались переделать изначально 7.92-мм чеха на свой патрон и пустить его и в армию тоже, не только на танки, но потом решили для экономии времени не переделывать - война подпирала, а просто поставить как есть на танки.
