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The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled.303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army.The gun was operated by a three-man crew but typically required more men to move and operate it: one fired, one fed the ammunition, the others helped to carry the weapon, its ammunition, and spare parts. [18]
After the failure of both the F.B.25 and N.E.1 to win production orders, interest in operational employment of the 1.59-inch breech-loading Vickers Q.F. gun, Mk II appears to have waned; moreover, the introduction of an incendiary round for use in machine guns had made aerial use of the gun less desirable. [4]
Winchester Model 1915 ©Fox Photos / Hulton Archive via Getty Images. Year entered service: 1915. ... 22. Solothurn S18-100 ©Hmaag / Wikimedia Commons - Original / License. Year entered service ...
.22 Long Rifle: 1910 1945 [1] Birmingham Small Arms Air rifle United Kingdom: Model D 1911 1918 [1] Pattern 1914 Enfield United Kingdom United States: No. 3 Mk I .303 British: 1916 1960 [1] No. 3 Mk I* No. 3 Mk I*(T) 1918 1960 Ross rifle Canada: Mk III .303 British: 1916 1970 [1] MK IIIB Browning 22 Semi-Auto United States.22 Long Rifle [1]
The Chauchat in 8mm Lebel was also extensively used in 1917–18 by the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.), where it was officially designated as the "Automatic Rifle, Model 1915 (Chauchat)". A total of 262,000 Chauchats were manufactured between December 1915 and November 1918, including 244,000 chambered for the 8mm Lebel service ...
The Great Western Arms Company (GWA) was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1953 to produce an American-made copy of the Colt Single Action Army Revolver. Colt had discontinued this model in 1940. The Great Western revolver was sold by mail order in the 1950s and early 1960s, and was used in many Western movies and television shows.
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The QF 2-pounder Mark II was a larger version of the QF 1-pounder Maxim gun produced by Vickers. It was a 40 mm calibre gun with a water-cooled barrel and a Vickers-Maxim mechanism. It was ordered in 1915 by the Royal Navy as an anti-aircraft weapon for ships of cruiser size and below. The original models fired from hand-loaded fabric belts ...