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Clarified the designation for this weapon in German service and created the redirect. German designation is not IMG (uppercase i), but lMG (lowercase l) for "leichtes," or "light"). The German standard of the time was to have the leichtes/schweres (light/heavy) designation abbreviation in lowercase. (For some unfathomably insipid reason, there are fonts that make l and I all but indistinguishable, and to further the idiocy they are popular ones. Can you tell the difference when they aren't side-by-side? lI Probably not.) This distinction was applied to the same weapon in different configurations, for example lMG 34 (leichtes Maschinengewehr 34) when the MG 34 was used with a bipod (more as a squad-level weapon) versus the sMG 34 (schweres Maschinengewehr 34) when mounted on a tripod (for example, in a Platoon level Heavy Weapons squad or Company level Heavy Weapons platoon, or possibly even when mounted on a vehicle). There may be more details than bipod vs tripod, but that's the long story short. The closest to "IMG 28(p)" would be the MP 739(i), or the Italian Beretta 38A submachine gun. See someone else for references, I'm not your Google. --Sctn2labor (talk) 17:05, 1 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
