The VMG 1927 is a light machine gun designed by Heinrich Vollmer. In 1916 Heinrich Vollmer began working on a design of a light machine gun. At the end the weapon was known as a MG Vollmer, later also as VMG 1927. It consisted of only 78 parts while the standard MG of those days, the MG 08/15 consisted of 383 parts.[citation needed] It was recoil operated[citation needed] and fed from a small drum magazine underneath the receiver.