Machine+Guns

Machine guns By: Stephen **__Machine Guns __** · The 1914 machine gun needed 4 to 6 people to fire, and it shot 400- 600 calibers in a minute. o Some machine guns would overheat quickly - sometimes in less than two minutes of firing. o The only way to fix it was water or the air. o The gun still did not work very well if being used by a new officer or in the hot weather. · The Lewis Machine Gun o The Lewis gun light machine gun was made in 1911 in the United States. o One advantage was that six of these guns could be manufactured in the time that one Vickers gun. · The Vickers Machine Gun o The British army used the Vickers machine gun as their main weapon in 1912. o It could shot 600 rounds per minute and had a range of 4,500 yards. o When it was water cooled it could be used after a long period of time. o It took six people to work the gun. · The Maxim Machine Gun o Hiram Maximum, created the Maxim, and then it was soon to be modified to Vickers machine gun. o The British army used the maxim. o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Hiram maximum was visited by the electrical exbition. o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">While he was at the exhibition he met a man who told him: "If you wanted to make a lot of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other's throats with greater facility." · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Bar Machine Gun o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The bar, browning assault rifle, was a gun used by American Forces in 1918, and John Moses created the bar. o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Bar weighed a little over 8kg, and had a 20 round box magazine. o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Bar shot 550 rounds per minute reaching 600 yards. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Chauchat Machine Gun o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Chauchat was developed in 1907, and revised in 1915. o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Chauchat was adopted by other Allied armies, for the trench conditions. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Mostly all machine guns were hard to control they usually took about four to six people, and overheated very quickly.

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