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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 ...
The Vickers K machine gun, known as the Vickers Gas Operated (Vickers G.O.) or Gun, Machine, Vickers G.O. .303-inch in British service, was a rapid-firing machine gun developed and manufactured for use in aircraft by Vickers-Armstrongs. The high rate of fire was needed for the short period of time when the gunner would be able to fire at an ...
Bungescu M1938 Fire-control system, used for the Romanian-made guns. The Vickers Model 1931 was a British anti-aircraft gun used during the Second World War.The design was rejected by the British and Vickers exported the gun worldwide during the 1930s.
The Vickers .5 inch machine gun (officially "Gun, Machine, Vickers, .5-in") also known as the Vickers .50 was a large-calibre British automatic weapon. The gun was commonly used as a close-in anti-aircraft weapon on Royal Navy and Allied ships, typically in a four-gun mounting (UK) or two-gun mounting (Dutch), as well as tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles.
In 1925 Vickers in Britain purchased the licence rights of the Berthier Model 1922 [1] for production in their Crayford factory, and as a replacement for the Lewis gun.It was an alternative to the water-cooled Vickers machine gun made by the same company. [5]
The Vickers 40 mm Class S gun, [1] [a] also known simply as the Vickers S or S gun, [3] was a 40 mm (1.57 in) airborne autocannon designed by Vickers-Armstrongs for use as aircraft armament. It was primarily used during World War II by British aircraft to attack ground targets. [4] It was largely replaced by the RP-3 rocket from 1943 on.
The turret had no main gun but four Vickers machine guns. Although they were in fact Medium II's and always called that way, their official designation was Tank Light Mark IA Special (L) India . Medium II Box Tank : This was a single command tank, converted from a Medium II in 1928, by removing the turret from the fighting compartment and ...
Vickers machine gun – standard medium machine gun of the British Army since 1912. Vickers. 50|400x400px – used as a mounted armament on fighting vehicles, as well as an anti-aircraft weapon by the Royal Navy and other allied ships. Browning M1919 – used by multiple countries during the war. Browning M2 – heavy machine gun, mounted on ...