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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]
They later took over the company and improved the design as the Vickers machine gun, which was the last major design Hiram Maxim himself worked on. It became the standard machine gun of the British Empire and Commonwealth, serving for some 50 years in the British Army. Vickers produced the machine gun in dozens of cartridge sizes and sold it ...
There were other Vickers machine guns aside from the regular water-cooled model (known universally as the "Vickers"): the Vickers-Berthier (VB) machine gun used by the Indian Army, the Vickers "K" .303 aircraft machine gun developed from it, and the Vickers "S" 40 mm aircraft gun. An unusual machine gun also made was the Vickers Higson. [6 ...
Larry Vickers, a popular creator of YouTube gun videos, may get a prison sentence after he pleaded guilty in October to two federal crimes including a conspiracy to import illegal machine guns ...
The company went public in 1867 as Vickers, Sons & Company and gradually acquired more businesses, branching out into various sectors. In 1868 Vickers began to manufacture marine shafts, in 1872 they began casting marine propellers and in 1882 they set up a forging press. They were also supplying steel forgings for gun barrel manufacturers ...
In addition to the Gatling, the collection features the earliest machine guns by Maxim, Browning and Lewis, a British Vickers machine gun, an MG42, known as “Hitler’s buzzsaw,” and ...
Vickers machine gun, 12,500 Mk I, Mk V, and Mk XXI produced from 1929 to 1943. Bren light machine gun, 17,500 produced from 1940 to 1945. L1A1 Self Loading Rifle, 222,773 rifles produced from 1959 to 1986; L2A1, 9,557 produced; L1A1-F1, 460 produced; F1 submachine gun, 25,000 produced from 1962 to 1973; Austeyr F88, produced from 1988
[12] [13] Following which, Vickers machine guns were organised into Machine Gun Platoons (later, Machine Gun Companies) in each infantry battalion. In 1936, this decision was reversed and the heavy machine guns were, once again, to be concentrated in specialised Divisional (Machine Gun) [a] or Divisional (Support) Battalions.