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Vickers machine gun [8] – Not declared obsolete until 1968. Bren light machine gun [9] – L4 variant in service throughout the Cold War. FN MAG [10] – Main British machine gun of Cold War and present day as L7.
The heavy machine gun is a term originating in World War I to describe heavyweight medium machine guns and persisted into World War II with Japanese Hotchkiss M1914 clones; today, however, it is used to refer to automatic weapons with a caliber of at least 12.7 mm (0.5 in), [3] but less than 20 mm (0.8 in). A general-purpose machine gun is ...
PK machine guns are belt-fed, using non-disintegrating metal belts, which have links that wrap around the cartridge case shoulder all the way around, and are linked by a coiling wire on each side. The links are made of 0.8 mm (0.03 in) thick high carbon stamped steel sheet metal that is zinc phosphated and varnished for protection.
The M1A1 Thompson submachine gun on display at the Virginia War Museum. The M1A1, standardized in October 1942 as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M1A1, could be produced in half the time of the M1928A1, and at a much lower cost. The main difference between the M1 and M1A1 was the bolt.
Pages in category "Cold War firearms of the United States" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... M73 machine gun; M85 machine gun; M231 ...
A Mini Uzi and a Heckler & Koch MP5K, two common submachine guns. A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges.The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, [1] to describe its design concept as an automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machine gun (hence the prefix "sub-").
Weapons of the Cold War period. d:Q6817092. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. ...