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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 ...
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.
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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
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 all over the world. They also scaled it up to larger calibres, particularly for the Royal Navy as the 0.5 inch model. Vickers' 75mm mountain gun (1900)
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 ...
Lewis gun: used by Bolivia; [3] Madsen machine gun: in service with both sides; [12] Maxim Machinegun:Used by Bolivia and Paraguay [8] [12] Vickers machine gun (Types C, E and F): bought by Bolivia;some captured by Paraguay [12] Vickers–Berthier light machine gun: bought by Bolivia; [8] ZB vz. 26 and ZB vz. 30: bought by Bolivia. [8]