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The Browning automatic rifle (BAR) is a family of American automatic rifles and machine guns used by the United States and numerous other countries during the 20th century. . The primary variant of the BAR series was the M1918, chambered for the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and designed by John Browning in 1917 for the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe as a replacement for the ...
Various firearms used by the United States military during World War II, displayed at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax County, Virginia. The following is a list of World War II weapons of the United States, which includes firearm, artillery, vehicles, vessels, and other support equipment known to have been used by the United States Armed Forces—namely the United States Army, United ...
The Browning Mk 1 and Mk 2 were older-style Commonwealth designations for the .303 Browning machine guns used on the vast majority of British aircraft of World War II. The difference between the Mk 1 and Mk 2 versions is unknown, [ citation needed ] but the weapon visually is quite similar to the AN/M2 aircraft gun.
The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") [13] [14] is a heavy machine gun that was designed near the end of World War I by John Browning. While similar to Browning's M1919 Browning machine gun , which was chambered for the .30-06 cartridge, the M2 uses Browning's larger and more powerful .50 BMG (12.7 mm ...
The first wz.28 LMGs were officially commissioned in 1927 and were officially named 7,92 mm rkm Browning wz. 1928, which is Polish for "7.92 mm hand-held machine gun of Browning mark 1928". A Polish reenactor poses with the wz. 1928 and period-correct uniform.
MG 34 General-purpose machine gun (German army main fire support weapon until superseded by the MG 42 because of ease of manufacture and high fire rate, still used after.) [262] [264] [265] [266] MG 42 General-purpose machine gun (Main fire support weapon of the German army after 1942-1943 after replacing MG 34) [262] [264] [267] [268]
M2 Browning; M2 flamethrower; M2 Hyde; M2 mortar; M3 trench knife; M4 bayonet; M7 grenade launcher; M7 mine; M9 rifle grenade; M17 rifle grenade; M18 recoilless rifle; M20 recoilless rifle; M1905 bayonet; M1911 pistol; M1917 bayonet; M1917 Browning machine gun; M1918 Browning automatic rifle; M1941 Johnson rifle; Mark I trench knife; Mk 2 ...
The T24 machine gun was a prototype reverse engineered copy of the German MG 42 general-purpose machine gun developed during World War II as a possible replacement for the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle and M1919A4 for infantry squads. The T24 was chambered for the .30-06 Springfield cartridge.