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M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun. M1917 Browning machine gun. M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle. Madsen machine gun. Maxim gun. MG 08.
De Knight M1902/17 [7] DWM Parabellum MG 13 [13] (A combination of water cooled version and air cooled version) Fokker-Leimberger M1916 machinen gewehr. Johnston D1918 [14] Knotgen M1912 machinen gewehr. S.I.A. M1918 [13] Schwarzlose M1905 machinen gewehr [7] Grenade launchers. Blanch-Chevallier grenade launcher.
The Machine Gun Corps (MGC) was a corps of the British Army, formed in October 1915 in response to the need for more effective use of machine guns on the Western Front in the First World War. The Heavy Branch of the MGC was the first to use tanks in combat and was subsequently turned into the Tank Corps, later called the Royal Tank Regiment.
The Mle 1914 Hotchkiss machine gun chambered for the 8mm Lebel cartridge became the standard machine gun of the French Army during the latter half of World War I. It was manufactured by the French arms company Hotchkiss et Cie, which had been established in the 1860s by American industrialist Benjamin B. Hotchkiss.
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.
World War I (1914–1918) By World War I, many armies had moved on to improved machine guns. The British Vickers machine gun was an improved and redesigned Maxim, introduced into the British Army in 1912 and remaining in service until 1968. Production took place at Erith in Kent, and some models were fitted to early biplanes also fabricated there.
The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, [3] and widely used by troops of the British Empire during the war.
Before the Second World War, there were plans to replace the Vickers gun as part of a widescale change from rimmed to rimless rounds; one of the contenders was the 7.92mm Besa machine gun (British-built Czech ZB-53 design), which eventually became the British Army's standard tank-mounted machine gun. However, the Vickers remained in service ...