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Machine gun includes all firearms "known as machine rifles, machine guns or submachine guns capable of discharging automatically and continuously loaded ammunition of any caliber in which the ammunition is fed to such gun from or by means of clips, drums, belts, or other separable mechanical device." D. Pub.
Machine gun includes all firearms known as machine rifles, machine guns, or submachine guns capable of discharging automatically and continuously loaded ammunition of any caliber in which ammunition is fed to such guns from or by means of clips, disks, drums, belt, or other separable mechanical device.
Machine gun is a weapon of any description, irrespective of size, by whatever name known, loaded or unloaded, from which a number of shots or bullets may be rapidly or automatically discharged from a magazine with one continuous pull of the trigger.
www-2.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/user/wbardwel/public/nfalist/1932_uniform_machine_gun_act.txt   (6185 words)

  
 Yokosuka P1Y Ginga (Milky Way)
One flexible 20 mm Type 99 cannon in the nose and one flexible rear-firing 13 mm Type 2 machine-gun (P1Y1a and P1Y2a).
One flexible 20 mm Type 99 cannon in the nose and twin 13 mm Type 2 machine-guns in a dorsal turet (P1Y1b and P1Y2b).
One flexible 13 mm Type 2 machine-gun in the nose and twin 13 mm Type 2 machine-guns in a dorsal turet (P1Y1c, P1Y2c and P1Y3).
www.combinedfleet.com /ijna/p1y.htm   (420 words)

  
 Machine Guns - Maschinengewehre
Machine guns derive their limited armor-penetrating capability both from the single bullet's penetration ability and from the effect the repeated hits of bullets in quick succession - as is the case with a machine gun - onto the same spot have on thin steel plates.
Development of the german machine guns went towards a general purpose machine gun, therewith abandoning the differentiation hitherto between light machine guns carried around by the assaulting infantry and heavy machine guns that were intended as stationary support weapons.
With the occupation of czechoslovakia in 1939 the germans captured 31,204 machine guns of the types ZB 1926 and ZB 1930, mostly the latter.
www.geocities.com /Augusta/8172/panzerfaust5.htm   (4863 words)

  
 Machine Gun - Military History Wiki
Heavy guns such as the Vickers machine gun were joined by many other machine weapons, which mostly had their start in the early 20th century.
Machine guns were mounted in aircraft for the first time in World War I. Firing through a moving propeller was solved in a variety of ways, including the interrupter gear, metal reinforcement of the propeller or simply avoiding the problem with wing mounted guns.
In the future, electronically controlled machine guns with ultra-high rates of fire may see use in some applications, although current small-caliber weapons of this type have found little use: they are too light for anti-vehicle use, but too heavy (especially with the need to carry a tactically useful amount of ammunition) for individual soldiers.
www.militaryhistorywiki.org /wiki/Machine_Gun   (2099 words)

  
 Machine Gun
Machine guns are known as automatic weapons because they automatically eject spent rounds of ammunition and reload fresh rounds.
Machine guns, as well as other automatic weapons, work by automatically expelling spent rounds of ammunition and reloading fresh rounds so that constant firing can be maintained.
Machine guns are grouped into four general categories: light machine guns; general-purpose, or medium, machine guns; heavy machine guns; and externally powered machine guns.
autocww.colorado.edu /~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/MilitaryWeapons/MachineGun.html   (1812 words)

  
 Machine Gun - www.canadiansoldiers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Machine Guns had played a minor part in Canadian military history in the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, when Gatling Guns under the command of a regular US Army officer, lent their support to the battles at Cut Knife Creek and Batoche.
Machine Gun battalions (and independent MG companies in the armoured divisions} were employed throughout the war.
The M1919 Browning.30 calibre machine gun was widely used during the Second World War by US forces as both a vehicle mounted weapon, and as an infantry weapon in both medium and later light machine gun configuration (the former by fitting the weapon to a tripod, the latter by fitting a bipod and buttstock).
www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Machine_Guns   (1445 words)

  
 Four Finnish Maxim Type Machine Guns
The konekivääri m/09-09 (Machine Gun Model 09-09) was in fact a Russian PM 1905 or PM 1910 mounted on a Sokolov carriage.
To circumvent this problem the gun crew raised and lowered the gun using an adjustor wheel while the gun was firing, causing the bullets to strike the target area with slightly differing arcs, spreading the fire over a depth.
The gun commander was responsible for observation and correction of firing, the gunner did the firing, the assistant loaded the belt into the gun and guided it during firing.
www.saunalahti.fi /~ejuhola/7.62/maxims.html   (3102 words)

  
 Different Finnish bunker types, Karelian Isthmus, the Winter War
2 of them were small 1-gun bunkers with a fixed gun, and the rest had from 2 to 4 guns (57 mm Caponier and Nordenfelt naval guns, despite that some of the gun bunkers were originally designed to be armed by wheeled field guns).
This type of a gun bunker was built in the Muolaa (Mu)-sector in 1922 and later also in Läskelä (north of Ladoga on the Jänisjoki defense line.
The gun was a 75 mm "Meller"-naval gun.
www.winterwar.com /M-Line/BunkerTypes.htm   (1477 words)

  
 Machine Guns Portal @ MiniMachineGun.com (Mini Machine Gun)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The two major operation systems of modern automatic machine guns are gas operation (which uses the gas generated from the burning powder to cycle the action), or recoil operation (which uses the recoil generated from the ejecting bullet to cycle the action).
Although the term "machine gun" is often used by civilians to describe all fully-automatic weapons, in military usage the term is restricted to relatively heavy weapons fired from some sort of support rather than hand-held, able to provide continuous or frequent bursts of automatic fire for as long as ammunition lasts.
Medium and heavy machine guns are either mounted on a tripod or on a vehicle; when carried on foot, the machine gun and associated equipment (tripod, ammunition, spare barrels) require additional crew members.
www.minimachinegun.com   (1850 words)

  
 Machineguns
A light machine gun is still a heavy son of a bitch, especially when you take into account the ammo that has to be carried.
Light Machine guns are likely to travel with the assault group, heavier machine guns are best deployed where they can shoot over the heads of the assault group or from the side where they will not endanger the assault group.
Defense: Machine guns are the backbone of the defense.
www.military-sf.com /Machineguns.htm   (3585 words)

  
 Modern Firearms - Type 67 general purpose machine gun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Type 67 was the first Chinese general purpose machine gun, developed to replace earlier Type 53 and Type 57 7,62mm medium machine guns (license-built copies of Soviet SG-43 and SGM respectively).
Adopted in 1967, it was improved with the introduction of the Type 67-1 in 1978.
Type 67 machine gun is gas operated, air cooled, belt fed machine gun that fires from open bolt.
world.guns.ru /machine/mg42-e.htm   (496 words)

  
 Derby FALs Different Types Of Receivers
Type 2 was introduced for extra-heavy-duty machine gun use in military service; they found that cracks would occasionally appear at the rear of the receiver in such use - they changed the cuts to leave some full-thickness steel in that area.
Type 3 omits the lightening cuts as a cost-saving measure.
There are also differences in machining at the front sides, in the barrel thread area.
www.derbyfals.com /types.htm   (125 words)

  
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A hand driven machine gun was developed in 1781 by James Puckle and operated on a similar principle to the revolver.
Twice a year, hundreds of licensed machine gun owners and military collectors converge from all over the country to flex their muscle.
An unusual feature of this gun is the magazine being permanently attached to the gun and swung forward to be loaded with a 20round horseshoe type charger of brass or cardboard.
www.lycos.com /info/machine-guns--miscellaneous.html   (459 words)

  
 Chinese Defence Today :: 12.7 mm Machine Guns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Type 89 (also known as QJZ89) is a 12.7 mm, automatic, belt-fed, recoil operated, air-cooled, crew operated heavy machine gun for suppressing enemy infantry and light vehicles.
The Type 85 is also used as the second generation vehicle-mounted AAMG (known as W85) to replace the ageing Type 59 AAMG.
The machine gun is mounted on a tripod and can be carried by soldiers with limited ammunitions over short distances.
www.sinodefence.com /army/crewserved/mg_127.asp   (463 words)

  
 History of the Civil War
The Billinghurst-Requa gun used a wheel type operation with eight banks of cartridge chambers that were rotated into alignment behind the row of 25 barrels.
It was used mainly in defense of bridges, hence the nickname "covered bridge gun." Both types of guns were very mobile and could be mounted (drawing at left) on the same size and type of carriage that the mountain howitzer used.
The new type gun impressed the government during a demonstration at Fort Monroe which prompted the Army to order 100 guns, but they were not delivered in time to see service in the Civil War.
www.floridareenactorsonline.com /machinegun.htm   (1767 words)

  
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The machine gun is one of the most devastating, efficient killing machines ever developed.
The machine gun is one of those weapons that completely changed the face of the war.
A machine gun is a fully automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession.
www.lycos.com /info/machine-guns--weapons.html   (331 words)

  
 Browning machine gun - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Browning was also interested in improving automatic weapons, or firearms that shoot round after round of ammunition continuously.
Heavy machine guns fire.50-caliber (12.7-mm) or larger ammunition and generally require a crew.
- machine gun: an air- or water-cooled, belt-fed, automatic machine gun with either a.30 or.50 caliber barrel, capable of firing over 500 rounds per minute
encarta.msn.com /Browning_machine_gun.html   (124 words)

  
 Chinese Defence Today :: 7.62 mm Heavy Machine Guns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Type 57 replaced the WWII age Type 53 (Chinese copy of the Soviet SG43) in the late 1950s, and served with the PLA for few decades until it was completely replaced by the newer Type 67 machine gun.
The Type 67 is a 7.62 mm calibre, automatic, belt-fed, recoil operated, air cooled, crew operated weapon that can be used as both a heavy machine gun for infantry battalion and a medium machine gun for infantry company.
The Type 67-2 was type classified in 1982 and has now become the standard battalion/company machine gun to replace the Type 67 and Type 67-1 in service with the PLA.
www.sinodefence.com /army/crewserved/mg_762.asp   (438 words)

  
 M60E3 7.62mm Machine Gun
The M60 Machine Gun was type classified in 1957 by the U.S. Army.
The M-60D machine gun is utilized by the UH-1, H-2, H-3, and H-60 aircraft.
A canvas ejection control bag attaches to the machine gun to catch ejected links and cartridge cases, preventing them from being ejected into the path of the rotor blades or turbine engine intake.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/land/m60e3.htm   (1009 words)

  
 Type 90 Main Battle Tank
This new main battle tank was intended to replace the Japanese Type 61 Medium Tank and the Type 74 Main Battle Tank.
Similar main gun is used with the "Leopard 2" main battle tanks.
Type 90 fire control system includes laser rangefinder, ballistic computer, combined day-night sight, telescopic gunner sight, commander control device with combined sight and also tank mechanisms control system designed by "Mitsubishi".
www.enemyforces.com /tanks/type90.htm   (753 words)

  
 WW2 Fighters: The machine guns of World War 2 - Frans Bonné   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
This picture shows you three types of machine guns, of which the upper was actually used in World War 1, or the Great War as it is called as well.
The gun in the middle is (I believe) the.303 calibre machinegun, the most widely used gun at the outbreak of WW2 by the Brittish.
The lower gun is the.50 calibre Machine gun, favoured by later models fighters of WW2.
www.xs4all.nl /~fbonne/ww2fguns.html   (437 words)

  
 M240G Medium Machine Gun
This is a ground mounted variant of the original M240/M240C/M240E1 coaxial/pintle mounted machine gun used on M2/M3 Series Bradley Fighting Vehicles, the M1 Series Abrams tank, and the U.S. Marine Corps LAV-Series of Light Armored Vehicles.
While possessing many of the same basic characteristics as the M60 Series medium machine guns, the durability of the M240 system results in superior reliability and maintainability when compared to the M60.
The M240G Machine Gun is the ground version of the original M240/M240E1, 7.62mm medium class weapon designed as a coaxial/pintle mounted machine gun for tanks and light armored vehicles.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/land/m240g.htm   (372 words)

  
 Colt Machine Gun
Rejected by the U.S. Army, which continued its successful use of the venerable.45 caliber rotating multi-barrel Gatling gun, several hundred Colt machine guns were purchased by the United States Navy in the same 6mm Lee caliber as its new Winchester-Lee Model 1895 straight pull action rifle.
Roosevelt indicated that he would have preferred the guns mounted on carriages but even this type of transport would have proven difficult for use in the jungle terrain in the type of offensive operations carried out in that campaign.
However, the Colt did usher in the age of the machine gun in United States service (although the US Army never formally adopted the Colt it recognized the value of the machine gun) and pointed to a century in which the machine gun would quickly become a dominant arm in warfare.
www.spanamwar.com /Coltmachinegun.htm   (1192 words)

  
 Shockwave-Sound.Com - Sound Effects - Guns: Pistols, Shotguns, Machine Gun sounds, Gun Foley etc.
A superb collection of 71 Machine Gun and Rifle sounds, professionally recorded with top of the line recording equipment, and delivered as 48khz stereo WAV files.
Machine gun: UZI Model A. 2 x Long burst.
Machine gun: UZI Model A. 2 x Short Burst.
shockwave-sound.com /genre/101.html   (1290 words)

  
 Dimple Type & Press Type Multi-Head Welders
Machine has 4 (or 5) 85 KVA dual secondary transformers, that can be connected for cascade or simultaneous welding
Machine has both forward and reverse switch which allows operator to shift panel only
Machine cycle time for welding with all 16 guns and index is less than 2 1/2 seconds
www.jandawelders.com /dimpletype.htm   (125 words)

  
 REME Weapons Collection - Machine Guns - 2
A tank gun version of the 8 mm Breda Model 37 heavy machine gun (Weapon No 125), which was introduced and adopted in 1938.
This machine gun is the tank and fortress version of the French 7.5 mm M29 light machine gun (Weapon No 135), commonly known as the Chatelleraut.
An unusual feature of this gun is the magazine being permanently attached to the gun and swung forward to be loaded with a 20 round horseshoe type charger of brass or cardboard.
www.rememuseum.org.uk /arms/machguns/armmg2.htm   (895 words)

  
 Layout and Stats Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
NOTE #2: Some evidence suggests that when originally constructed, the Stewart had a single barrel 40mm Bofars AA gun mounted at the extreme rear of the 01 level and that during her first refit, which apparently took place later in 1943, this was replaced by a twin barrel 40mm.
Later, when the torpedo tubes were removed, the two 40mm guns were mounted port and starboard on the 01 level in the area where the tubes were.
The question remains as to whether or not the 40mm guns and their directors that supposedly replaced the tubes at this time were single or twin barrel guns.
users3.ev1.net /~de238/stewart/stats.html   (1950 words)

  
 Failed Designs
Overweight and clumsy, the Sopwith Bulldog two-seater biplane was heavily armed with two forward firing machine guns and two independently mounted machine guns in the rear.
It came armed with a forward firing machine gun mounted oblique to the aircraft to avoid the propeller.
The observer could not stand, or turn around like in later aircraft, so a machine gun in the back was nearly ineffective as the observer had to aim it by leaning back and swivelling the gun while looking over his shoulder.
www.wwiaviation.com /failures.shtml   (416 words)

  
 All Wood Wings: Landing Ships(LST) - quality ship models crafted from wood
Of the 1052 Type II vessels to be produced during WWII, 117 were transferred to either the Royal Navy of England or the Royal Hellenic Navy of Greece under the terms of the Lend Lease Act.
Similar in design but using riveted rather than welded construction, the British copy (known as Type 3) was heavier and had a smaller cargo capacity - but 2 knots faster on account of steam propulsion machinery.
Designed with a "V" type bow to attain speeds of 20 knots, the doors were moved high above the waterline and the ships off-loaded vehicles from their main deck via a 112 foot-long ramp over the bow.
www.allwoodwings.com /Ships/Military/Amphibious/1,LST,Type-2.htm   (1009 words)

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