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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.
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 ...
Machine guns. Lewis M1917; Lewis Mk I; Vickers Mk I; Mortars. Stokes mortar; Kingdom of Romania ... Knötgen M1914 automatic rifle; Lewis M1918 automatic rifle [12]
Lewis gun; M. M1903 Springfield; M1905 bayonet; M1911 pistol; M1917 bayonet; M1917 Browning machine gun; ... Vickers machine gun; W. Winchester Model 1897; Winchester ...
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Lewis gun used in an anti aircraft role. The British officially adopted the Lewis machine gun in .303-inch calibre for Land and Aircraft use in October 1915. [27] Despite costing more than a Vickers gun to manufacture, £165 [22] against about £100 for the Vickers, [28] Lewis machine-guns were in high demand with the British military during ...
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.
Plans to mount the gun on the Parnall Scout fighter apparently did not come to fruition. [1] At the request of the War Office, Vickers built a single prototype of the Vickers F.B.25 two-seat night fighter to employ the gun, but the F.B.25 failed official tests and crashed in May 1917 on the way to Martlesham Heath.