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With a mass of only 44.5 pounds (20 kg), it was the only complete machine gun at the time that could be carried by one man. In 1895, in response to the interest shown in the 40 pounds, air-cooled Colt-Browning M1895 ( Potato Digger ) in the U.S. machine gun trials, Hiram Maxim introduced his own air-cooled Extra Light gun weighing only 27 ...
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M1895 operating mechanism showing the lever (P) in the forward (top) and rear (bottom) positions. Filed for patent in 1892, the M1895's operating mechanism is one of John and Matthew S. Browning's early patents for automatic rifles; [10] [11] they had previously been working on lever-action rifles for Winchester such as the Winchester 1886.
The original use of the recoil booster was to provide additional energy to move the large barrel/bolt mass on recoil operated machine guns. [7] At the start of WWI the primary German machine gun was the Maxim-based MG 08, a water-cooled heavy machine gun equipped with a blank firing adapter but not a muzzle booster.
A rotary cannon, rotary autocannon, rotary gun or Gatling cannon, is any large-caliber multiple-barreled automatic firearm that uses a Gatling-type rotating barrel assembly to deliver a sustained saturational direct fire at much greater rates of fire than single-barreled autocannons of the same caliber. The loading, firing and ejection ...
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The RMG 7.62 is a development of the MG3, intended as a vehicle mounted weapon where changing the overheated barrel would be a problem.Like the MG3, it is a recoil operated weapon that fires at about 800rpm and uses the belt feed from the MG3.
When used with a tripod for continuous fire, the gun is fitted with a heavier barrel. In the light machine gun configuration, the AA-52 is a relatively light weapon to carry. The AA-52 can be fired from the shoulder, but this is slightly awkward because of the position of the handle; however, the bipod can be used as a handguard when not in use.