DISA is a company founded in Denmark (with the name Compagnie Madsen A/S) which since 1900 has produced metal casting products. In 1936 it changed name from Dansk Rekyl Riffel Syndikat A/S to Dansk Industri Syndikat A/S and was a

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manufacturer most notable for producing the

Madsen machine gun The Madsen is a light machine gun that Julius A. Rasmussen and Theodor Schouboe designed and proposed for adoption by Colonel Herman Madsen, Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen, the Minister of War (Denmark), Danish Minister of War, and that the Royal Da ...

and

Madsen M-50 The Madsen M-50 or M/50 is a submachine gun introduced in 1950. It was produced by the Danish company Dansk Industri Syndikat of Copenhagen, Denmark. Overview This firearm was a modified variation of the M/46. The only major improvement was the s ...

History

In 1896 V.H.O Madsen designed an air-cooled, repeating machine gun which then took his name, Madsen. In the year 1900 the company Compagnie Madsen A/S was founded. This company was to produce this Madsen machine gun. In 1930 A.P Møller bought a sum of shares corresponding to 15% of the total shares. In the following years A.P Møller expanded his shareholding to 31.6%, and was hereby the biggest shareholder.

Arms manufacturing products

* Madsen M1888 Self Loading rifle * Madsen M1896 Flaadens Rekylgevær *

Schouboe Automatic Pistol Jens Theodor Suhr Schouboe patented his original semi-automatic pistol A semi-automatic pistol (also called a self-loading pistol, autopistol, or autoloading pistol) is a repeating firearm, repeating handgun that automatically ejects and loa ...

* Lightened Experimental submachine gun *

Madsen-Saetter machine gun The Madsen-Saetter machine gun was a Danish general-purpose machine gun designed in the early 1950s by Eric Larsen-Saetter. Service history The machine gun was tested by the British Army but the FN MAG was preferred. Indonesia produced the Ma ...

* Madsen M45 * Madsen-Ljungmann Self Loading rifle M. 1945 *

Madsen M47 The Madsen Lightweight Military Rifle (or the Madsen Lightweight Military Rifle Model 1947; commonly abbreviated as M47) is a Danish bolt-action rifle designed to be chambered for a wide range of contemporary military cartridges. The M47 was the ...

* 51 mm Madsen Grenade launcher M 1947 * Madsen M50 *

Madsen LAR The Madsen LAR was a battle rifle of Danish origin chambered in the 7.62×51mm NATO caliber. It is based on the Kalashnikov rifle and was made from lightweight, high tensile alloys and steel similar to that used on the M16 rifle. Its layout is si ...

* Madsen 20 mm AA gun

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External links

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