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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.
A Lewis gun on a Foster mounting (of the later, S.E.5 model) fitted to an Avro 504K Night Fighter. The Foster mounting was a device fitted to some fighter aircraft of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. It was designed to enable a machine gun (in practice, a Lewis Gun) to fire over, rather than through the
Machine guns. Bergmann MG15nA; DWM MG 08 and MG 08/15; Hotchkiss M1909; Hotchkiss M1900; Maxim machine gun; Nordenfelt multiple barrel gun; Schwarzlose M1907/12; Vickers machine gun; Lewis Gun; Grenades. M1915, M1916 and M1917 Stielhandgranate [broken anchor] Flamethrowers. Kleinflammenwerfer M1911; Wechselapparat; Infantry mortar ...
Initially, the United States Army was not interested in his new gun, but after the British and French had bought more than 100,000 for use in the trenches in France, the US Army did purchase them. Lewis, already a wealthy man, declined the royalties —amounting to at least $1,200,000 ($35,557,320 in 2022 terms)—on guns made for the United ...
1916 photograph of a Lewis Gun. Caption: "The Lewis Gun Assembled - The gun weighs but 26½ pounds, light enough for one man to carry, so that in case of a hasty retreat it need not be abandoned to the enemy, as many heavier types of machine guns must be" Date: 1916: Source: Google Books - (1916). ""Tanks" and the "Hose of Death"". The World's ...
The Vickers F.B.5 (Fighting Biplane 5) (known as the "Gunbus") was a British two-seat pusher military biplane of the First World War.Armed with a single .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis gun operated by the observer in the front of the nacelle, it was the first aircraft purpose-built for air-to-air combat to see service, making it the world's first operational fighter aircraft.
The Vickers gun was mounted on the forward left dorsal surface of the fuselage with the breech inside the cockpit, at a slight upwards angle. Typically, spare magazines for the Lewis gun would have been placed within most of the free space in the cockpit including the forward areas, such as the instrumentation panel. [13]
For example the Lewis gun (1914) was fitted with an adjustable bipod. [4] The technology became more advanced, with hinged legs and even extendable or retractable legs. The Brixia M1923 machine gun used a bipod that could also be used as a harness allowing the user to move around firing the weapon handling only the spade grips.