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M1917 Browning machine gun; M1918 Browning automatic rifle; Madsen machine gun; Maxim gun; MG 08; MG 18 TuF; P. Perino Model 1908; PM M1910; S. Salvator-Dormus M1893;
An 8 mm Gebauer machine gun from inside a 39M Csaba armoured car's turret.. Noting that the model 07/12 Schwarzlose machine gun was prone to freezing up in the higher altitudes above the Italian Alps, Gebauer decided that the current practice of adapting standard infantry machine guns was outmoded, as the propeller synchronization only controlled the timing, and not the operation, of these ...
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 Maschinengewehr 1901, or MG 01, was the standard machine gun of the Imperial German Army from its introduction in 1901 to the adoption of its successor, the MG 08, in 1908. [1] After the introduction of the MG 08, the MG 01 was mainly used by German colonial soldiers.
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.
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 ...
The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim.It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world. [15]The Maxim gun has been called "the weapon most associated with imperial conquest" by historian Martin Gilbert, [16] and was heavily used by colonial powers during the "Scramble for Africa".
Bergmann MG 15 (water cooled version heavy machine gun) Bergmann MG 15nA (air cooled version light machine gun) Gast M1917; Madsen M1902; Maxim machine gun; MG 18 TuF (heavy anti-tank and anti-aircraft machine gun) MG 99, MG 01, MG 08, MG 08/15, MG 08/18 and MG 09; Parabellum MG 14 and MG 14/17 (lightweight redesign of the MG 08)