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250-round canvas belt 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 ...
"The whole nine yards" - approx length of a Vickers 250-round belt: (around 8:00 mark) here: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.173.74 15:15, 12 June 2016 (UTC) The round isn't "only 1/3 inch across". The bullet might be said to be, but it's a bottle case. Also it's a canvas belt, and they leave more space between rounds.
The slower rate of fire prevented more rapid overheating of the Bren's air-cooled barrel, and the Bren was much lighter than belt-fed machine guns, which typically had cooling jackets, often liquid filled. The magazines also prevented the ammunition from getting dirty, which was more of a problem with the Vickers with its 250-round canvas belts.
250-round cloth or disintegrating belt The M1919 Browning is a .30 caliber medium machine gun that was widely used during the 20th century, especially during World War II , the Korean War , and the Vietnam War .
In spite of this limitations, the Maxim gun soon became popular due to its extreme firepower (600 rounds a minute, equal to 60 riflemen at the time) and by 1890 Maxim and Vickers company was supplying machine guns to British Empire, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, and Russia. [1]
The TADEN used the action and gas system of the Bren but fired from 250-round non-disintegrating metal-link belts rather than box magazines. The light machinegun model used a buttstock and trigger group like the Bren and the medium machine gun model used spade grips and a butterfly trigger like the Vickers machine gun.
Two men worked a belt-filling machine non-stop for twelve hours keeping up a supply of 250-round belts. 100 new barrels were used up, and all the water, including the men's drinking water and contents of the latrine buckets, was used to keep the guns cool. In that twelve-hour period the ten guns fired a million rounds between them.
Many modern ammunition belts use disintegrating links. Disintegrating links retain a single round and are articulated with the round ahead of it in the belt. When the round ahead is stripped from the belt and fed into the feed system or chamber, the link holding it is ejected and the link holding the following round is disarticulated.