 Surprisingly, the NRA did not purchase any Maschinengewehr 34s from Germany, but did produce their own copies of them.Heavy machine guns were mainly locally-made Type 24 water-cooled Maxim guns, which were the Chinese copies of the German MG08, and M1917 Browning machine guns chambered for the standard 8mm Mauser round.On average, every Central Army battalion would get one heavy machine gun (about a third to half of what actual German divisions got during World War II).