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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]
The Colt–Browning M1895, nicknamed "potato digger" because of its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute.
Machine guns. Colt–Browning M1895/14; Browning M1917; Hotchkiss Mk I; ... Vickers machine gun; Lewis Gun; Grenades. M1915, M1916 and M1917 Stielhandgranate [broken ...
Colt–Browning M1895:Bought in small numbers by Bolivia and Paraguay [15] Lewis gun: used by Bolivia; [3] Madsen machine gun: in service with both sides; [12] Maxim Machinegun:Used by Bolivia and Paraguay [8] [12] Vickers machine gun (Types C, E and F): bought by Bolivia;some captured by Paraguay [12] Vickers–Berthier light machine gun ...
With a mass of only 44.5 pounds (20 kg), it was the only complete machine gun at the time that could be carried by one man. In 1895, in response to the interest shown in the 40 pounds, air-cooled Colt-Browning M1895 ( Potato Digger ) in the U.S. machine gun trials, Hiram Maxim introduced his own air-cooled Extra Light gun weighing only 27 ...
The Vickers K machine gun, known as the Vickers Gas Operated (Vickers G.O.) or Gun, Machine, Vickers G.O. .303-inch in British service, was a rapid-firing machine gun developed and manufactured for use in aircraft by Vickers-Armstrongs. The high rate of fire was needed for the short period of time when the gunner would be able to fire at an ...
Colt produced 151,700 revolvers during the war as well as 13,000 Maxim-Vickers machine guns and 10,000 Browning machine guns with an additional 100,000 under subcontract to other companies. Since Auto-Ordnance had no tooling for production of the newly developed Thompson submachine gun, John T. Thompson , in August 1920, entered into contract ...
two .30-caliber M1919 Browning machine gun and one .50-caliber M2 Browning machine gun: GMC 'Kippenhok' [9] 1931 3 three 6.5mm lewis m20 machine guns Morris Wijnman 'Koekblik' [10] 1932 3 Space for up to four 6.5mm lewis m20 machine guns Wilton-Fijenoord [11] 1933 3 three 6.5mm Lewis m20 machine guns Overvalwagen [12] 1940 90