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Pages in category "World War I machine guns" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... Madsen machine gun; Maxim gun; MG 08; MG 18 TuF; P ...
Machine gun. Gatling gun (Pre World War 1) Field guns. Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun; Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903; Naval artillery. BL 6-inch gun Mk V (Coast defence gun ...
Pages in category "World War I infantry weapons of the United States" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
As well as being able to operate across ground waterlogged and broken up by shelling, it was expected to resist 47-mm anti-tank guns and 105-mm field guns or howitzers at 100 yd (91 m). Main armament would be a field gun mounted in the front – effective against 7-foot (2.1 m) thick reinforced concrete – and two 2-pounder guns, the latter in ...
Bergmann MG 15 (water cooled version heavy machine gun) Bergmann MG 15nA (air cooled version light machine gun) Gast M1917; Madsen M1902; Maxim machine gun; MG 18 TuF (heavy anti-tank and anti-aircraft machine gun) MG 99, MG 01, MG 08, MG 08/15, MG 08/18 and MG 09; Parabellum MG 14 and MG 14/17 (lightweight redesign of the MG 08)
Despite such developments, the MG 08/15 remained by far the most common German machine gun deployed in World War I, [16] reaching a full allocation of six guns per company (72 guns per regiment) in 1918. By that time, there were four times as many MG 08/15 light machine guns than heavy MG 08 machine guns in each infantry regiment.
The machine gun emerged as a decisive weapon during World War I. Picture: British Vickers machine gun crew on the Western Front. Technology during World War I (1914–1918) reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general.
Because they were light, they were used temporarily during the early part of World War I to arm observation crews on French military aircraft. [7] Only one CS machine rifle is known to have survived in a Prague museum. [8] In 1914, when World War I broke out, French troops did not operate any light machine gun.