The MG-13 (shortened from German Maschinenengewehrsin 13) was a German general purpose machine gun obtained by rebuilding a World War 1 water-cooled machine gun into an air-cooled version. The MG-13 was introduced into Wehrmacht service in 1930, where it served as the standard light machine gun. It was superseded by cheaper, faster firing models: The MG-34 and then later the MG-42. It was officially withdrawn from service in 1934 and most of them were sold off to Portugal who used it into the late 1940s as the Metralhadora Dreyse m/938. Those MG-13s that were not sold were placed into storage instead, and these later saw use in World War II by second line German units. 2334 = 119lw

The MG 13 was designed to work with both a 25 round box magazine and a 75 round saddle drum. It was also equipped with a folding butt stock and a carrying handle.