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The first successful self-loader was the Gatling gun, a hand-cranked revolver. It was invented by Richard Jordan Gatling and fielded by the Union forces during the American Civil War. Self-loaders use energy to reload. The world's first machine gun was the Maxim gun, developed by British inventor Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884.
This is an extensive list of small arms—including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, underwater firearms, anti-tank rifles, anti-materiel rifle,Anti air cannon and any other variants.
M3 submachine gun: Submachine gun 655,363 [156] SA80: Assault rifle United Kingdom: 600,000 SIG SG 550: Assault rifle Switzerland: 600,000 MG 34: General-purpose machine gun Nazi Germany: 577,120 [157] Browning M1917. and M1919. Machine gun United States: 567,340 [158] [159] Tula-Korovin TK: Semi-automatic pistol Soviet Union: 500,000 [160 ...
The British Army first deployed the Gatling gun in 1873-74 during the Anglo-Ashanti wars, and extensively during the last actions of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu war. [40] The Royal Navy used Gatling guns during the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War. [23] Gatling guns were used by Egyptian forces both on sea and land, and saw combat in Sudan and Abyssinia.
The world's first submachine gun (a fully automatic firearm which fires pistol cartridges) able to be maneuvered by a single soldier is the MP 18.1, invented by Theodor Bergmann. It was introduced into service in 1918 by the German Army during World War I as the primary weapon of the Stosstruppen (assault groups specialized in trench combat).
An automatic firearm is capable of firing multiple rounds with one pull of the trigger. The Gatling gun may have been the first automatic weapon, though the modern trigger-actuated machine gun was not widely introduced until the First World War (1914–1918) with the German "Spandau" (adopted in 1908) and the British Lewis gun (in
It was the first air-cooled Maxim gun, and the first with the mainspring inside the receiver casing. [4] At the time, it was the lightest machine gun in the world. Maxim hoped that cavalry units would appreciate the Extra Light gun for “hit and run” raids, for its light weight.
This is an extensive list of antique guns made before the year 1900 and including the first functioning firearms ever invented. The list is not comprehensive; create an entry for listings having none; multiple names are acceptable as cross-references, so that redirecting hyperlinks can be established for them.