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Berthier M1911 machine gun [7] (Water cooled version) Caldwell M1915; Darne M1916 machine gun; De Knight M1902/17 [7] DWM Parabellum MG 13 [13] (A combination of water cooled version and air cooled version) Fokker-Leimberger M1916 machine gun; Johnston D1918 [14] Knötgen M1912 machine gun; S.I.A. M1918 [13] Schwarzlose M1905 machine gun [7 ...
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 ...
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)
Colleoni machine gun — 6.50×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: Ammunition belt Italy: 1908 Colt Machine Gun: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 5.56×45mm NATO: Ammunition belt United States: 1965 Colt Automatic Rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: Detachable box magazine United States: 1982 Darne machine gun: Hotchkiss et Cie: 7.50×54mm French 8.00×51mmR French ...
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 British Army formally adopted the Vickers gun as its standard machine gun under the name Gun, Machine, Mark I, Vickers, .303-inch on 26 November 1912. [20] There were shortages when the First World War began, and the British Expeditionary Force was still equipped with Maxims when sent to France in 1914. [21]
The Maschinengewehr des Standschützen Hellriegel in testing, 1915. Hellriegel's submachine gun was a fully automatic firearm. The gun had a water-cooled barrel. The cooling-jacket around the barrel bears similarities to that of the Schwarzlose machine gun, and had two openings, one to fill it with water and the other to release excess steam.
These are types of guns used during World War I. The term "Gun" is used to describe a cannon that fires a shell at high velocity in a relatively flat trajectory and increases range by elevating the muzzle; this compares to a Howitzer , which fires a shell at lower velocity in a high trajectory.