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The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, [ 4 ] and widely used by troops of the British Empire during the war.
A Lewis gun on a Foster mounting (of the later, S.E.5 model) fitted to an Avro 504K Night Fighter. The Foster mounting was a device fitted to some fighter aircraft of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. It was designed to enable a machine gun (in practice, a Lewis Gun) to fire over, rather than through the
Lewis gun.303 British: Light machine gun United Kingdom: One used intensively by the IRA in the Ballymurphy area of Belfast in 1972, [75] [76] captured by British Army in February 1977. [77] Another Lewis gun was found in an IRA arms dump outside Kildare in January 1990. [78] [79] Besa machine gun: 7.92×57mm Mauser: Medium machine gun United ...
Lewis gun; Maxim M1904 and M1907; Vickers machine gun; Kingdom of Serbia. Sidearms. Chamelot–Delvigne M1873, M1874 and M1876; Gasser M1870/74; Luger P08; Mauser C96;
Initially, the United States Army was not interested in his new gun, but after the British and French had bought more than 100,000 for use in the trenches in France, the US Army did purchase them. Lewis, already a wealthy man, declined the royalties —amounting to at least $1,200,000 ($35,557,320 in 2022 terms)—on guns made for the United ...
The mount incorporated bungee cord suspension in elevation to compensate for the weight of the gun, and allowed an airgunner in an open cockpit to swivel and elevate his weapon (a Lewis machine gun) quickly, and easily fire in any direction. Later models permitted the fitting of two Lewis guns; while this doubled the firepower available ...
Chauchat M1915 (5000 Machine guns donated by France. They were not issued during Winter War as arrived in January-February of 1940. Mostly issued to Finnish home front units, field artillery and some shortly equipped infantry units during early Continuation War.) Lewis machine gun (Small number used on aircraft and as anti-aircraft machine gun ...
At the close of World War I in 1918, the British Army was equipped with two main automatic weapons; the Vickers medium machine gun (MMG) and the Lewis light machine gun. The Vickers was heavy and required a supply of water to keep it in operation, which tended to relegate it to static defence and indirect fire support.