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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.
The Machine Gun Corps (MGC) was a corps of the British Army, formed in October 1915 in response to the need for more effective use of machine guns on the Western Front in the First World War. The Heavy Branch of the MGC was the first to use tanks in combat and was subsequently turned into the Tank Corps, later called the Royal Tank Regiment .
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 ...
Despite such developments, the MG 08/15 remained by far the most common German machine gun deployed in World War I, [16] reaching a full allocation of six guns per company (72 guns per regiment) in 1918. By that time, there were four times as many MG 08/15 light machine guns than heavy MG 08 machine guns in each infantry regiment.
The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") [14] [15] is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning. While similar to Browning's M1919 Browning machine gun , which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge, the M2 uses Browning's larger and more powerful .50 BMG (12.7 mm ...
The Maschinengewehr des Standschützen Hellriegel in testing, 1915. Hellriegel's submachine gun was a fully automatic firearm. The gun had a water-cooled barrel. The cooling-jacket around the barrel bears similarities to that of the Schwarzlose machine gun, and had two openings, one to fill it with water and the other to release excess steam.
Machine gun. Gatling gun (Pre World War 1) Field guns. Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun; Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903; Naval artillery. BL 6-inch gun Mk V (Coast defence gun ...