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	Vickers machine gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The gun was 3 feet 8 inches (1.1 m) long and its cyclic rate of fire was between 450 and 600 rounds of ammunition per minute, with a range of approximately 4,500 yards (4,100 m).
		The gun was fitted with interrupter gear to allow it to fire through aircraft propellers, and slots were cut in the water jacket so that it was cooled by air flow instead.
		As the machine gun armament of fighters moved from the fuselage to the wings in the years before WW2, the Vickers with its cloth belts was replaced by the Browning Model 1919 with metal clips in some aircraft, especially fighters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vickers_machine_gun (531 words)

	Encyclopedia: Machine gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		Gatling guns and revolver cannon have several barrels or chambers on a rotating carousel and a system of cams that load, cock, and fire each mechanism progressively as it rotates through the sequence.
		Heavy guns based on the Maxim such as the Vickers machine gun were joined by many other machine weapons, which mostly had their start in the early 20th century.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Machine-gun (6444 words)

	Lewis Gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lewis gun was invented by US Army Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis in 1911 but was not instantly adopted by the Americans.
		The gun weighed 12 kg (28 lb), only about half as much as the monumental Vickers machine gun, and was primarily chosen because it could be carried and used by a single soldier.
		A few Lewis guns were issued for anti-aircraft use with the 97 round drums by the British Army in 1916, but the big drum did not stand up well to the arduous conditions of trench warfare and the 47 round was used thereafter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewis_Gun (780 words)

	Vickers Mk I Heavy Machine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Vickers Mk I weapon used during the Great War was a simplified version of the gun designed by Hiram Maxim in 1883.
		The gun was watercooled, holding seven pints of water in the cooling jacket.
		The Vickers was at its most effective when firing at 800 to 1,200 yards, where a beaten zone was formed were most men standing up would be hit.
	www.landships.freeservers.com /vickers_hmg_info.htm (813 words)

	Support Weapons; Vickers M-Gun, 2 inch Mortar, 25 Pounder.
		The overall length of the gun was 3 feet 8 inches and it's cyclic rate of fire was between 450 and 600 rounds of ammunition per minute.
		Therefore, while one member of the six or eight man gun team carried the gun, another would carry the tripod and the other six would have laden themselves down with belt boxes to be sure they would be able to carry out an effective performance once the gun was set up.
		During the inter-war years it was decided that a new gun should be designed which would be capable of providing both the high angle fire of a howitzer and the flat trajectory fire of a field gun.
	au.geocities.com /thefortysecondinww2/level1/line2/support_weapons.htm (1144 words)

	Vickers Medium Machine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A Vickers gun crew lay down covering fire during the assault on Hill 317, the battle of Maryang San.
		The Vickers gun was fired by a crew of two, one man to fire the weapon and another to ensure the smooth feeding of its 250-round belts of.303 ammunition.
		The Vickers' high rates of fire, up to 250 rounds per minute, made the gun's barrel very hot, so it was encased in a water jacket to keep it cool and stop it from overheating and jamming.
	www.awm.gov.au /korea/weapons/vickers/vickers.htm (175 words)

	Vickers Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Vickers Gun used a 250 round fabric-belt magazine and had the reputation as a highly reliable weapon.
		The Vickers gun proved to be most successful, being highly efficient, reliable, compact and reasonably light.
		In the trenches the Vickers were primarily used for defence, but it was also effectively used to assist an attack, by indirect or barrage fire, and to restrict and harass enemy movement behind their lines.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWvickers.htm (680 words)

	The Vickers Machine Gun
		The Vickers machine gun was the standard issue machine gun for the British Army in World War One.
		The Vickers was formally introduced to the British Army in 1912 and quickly saw use in the war.
		The machine gun used the same ammunition as the Lee Enfield rifle (0.303 inch bullets) and could fire at a rate of 450 bullets a minute.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /vickers_machine_gun.htm (294 words)

	Vickers
		Vickers The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of milita...
		Vickers K The Vickers 'K' Gas Operated Machine Gun was a development of the Vickers-Berthier Class 'L' Land Service Ligh...
		Vickers machine gun The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the machine gun required...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/vickers.html (142 words)

	Vickers Machine Gun - UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Vickers Machine Gun - UK Vickers Machine Gun - UK The first British airplane specially designed to carry a machine-gun, the Vickers pusher biplane, made its appearance in 1913.
		The Vickers company had manufactured this gun for the British Government since 1888, so it was the obvious choice; the belt feed, however, was found to interfere with its flexibility.
		It was installed in the Vickers pusher and proved so successful that rather reluctantly the type was ordered by the British Government in July 1914.
	www.aviation-history.com /guns/vickers.htm (127 words)

	Dirk H.R. Spennemann, British Naval Heritage in Micronesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Based on the breech block numbers identifying the gun barrels as to their manufacture and thus history, it is, at least in theory, possible to track the guns.
		Vickers and Armstrong's accepted the invitation and founded the Japanese Steel Works with a capital of [[sterling]] 1 million, which was increased in 1909 to [[sterling]] 1.5 million.
		The heavy guns found in the Marshall Islands and elsewhere in the Pacific are often addressed as the "Singapore guns" and it is claimed that these guns were taken and relocated by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in early 1942.
	marshall.csu.edu.au /html/UKNaval/UKNaval6.html (4439 words)

	Vickers Type 271 Wellington - Experimental (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Vickers Type 419 Wellington DWI.Mk II - Eleven minesweeping aircraft converted by W. Rollason Limited at Croydon that featured a 48 ft (14.63 m) coil suspended from the nose, tail and wing.
		Vickers Type 435 Wellington Mk IC - A conversion of a single aircraft to evaluate the Helmore Turbinlite.
		Vickers Type 439 Wellington Mk II - An experimental installation of a 40 mm Vickers gun in the nose of a Wellington Mk II.
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/welly-x.htm (384 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - Lewis Gun
		As a light automatic machine gun it was considered the best and most reliable available at the time and was soon adapted for use both at sea by the Royal Navy, and for use in the air by aircraft observers (with the Vickers Gun used for forward firing through the aircraft's propeller blades).
		The Lewis Gun was belatedly adopted by the U.S. Army in 1917, manufactured in New York using 0.30 inch calibre ammunition.
		Although a popular choice the gun was nonetheless expensive to manufacture, for all that six could be produced in the time it took to manufacture a single Vickers Gun.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/mgun_lewis.htm (457 words)

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		The Vickers lock takes only one-third the time to replace, the feed box is also quicker to replace as well as being more reliable, and the feed being driven by gun recoil has no ill effect on the operation of the lock.
		Vickers claimed that it could fire all 800 rounds in 20 seconds and could then be reloaded in a further 30 seconds.
		Gun weight was 101 lbs (46 kg), or 122 lbs with water (55.3 kg) and it was noticeably longer than the compact Class B, with a barrel length of 45 inches (114 cm) and an overall length of nearly six feet (179 cm).
	www.quarry.nildram.co.uk /Vickers.html (4007 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - Vickers Gun
		The Vickers Gun, closely modelled on the Maxim Gun, comprised the British Army's standard heavy machine gun at the start of the First World War, following its formal adoption in 1912.
		The gun used standard rifle 0.303-inch ammunition and weighed a little under 20kg; it was thus lighter than both the original Maxim Gun and the German Maschinengewehr 08.
		Although the predominant British machine gun in 1914 and for much of 1915 - it remained so for British imperial troops sited on far-flung battlefields, innovations in machine gun design invariably showing up first on the Western Front - it was gradually replaced from late 1915 onwards by the lighter Lewis Gun.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/mgun_vickers.htm (330 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The remaining 224 guns were assigned to the 3 machine gun battalions and to the machine gun company that was an organic part of each of the 4 infantry regiments.
		One machine gun battalion was assigned to each of the division's two infantry brigades.
		The third machine gun battalion was a division unit, under command of the division commander.
	www.angelfire.com /ny3/roughnecks/vickers.html (572 words)

	37MM AND 40MM GUNS IN BRITISH SERVICE
		The gun was subsequently used by the British but suffered from the lack of an obvious role; it was too small to harm naval vessels and on land was outranged by the new quick-firing artillery pieces firing shrapnel shells, which were just as mobile.
		The gun originally fired a shell weighing 0.9 kg (two pounds) at a muzzle velocity of about 610 m/s but just before the war the disadvantage of such a low velocity was recognised and a high-velocity loading, firing a 0.77 kg shell at a still modest 730 m/s, was introduced.
		As a tank gun it was unsatisfactory because of the lack of an HE shell to deal with enemy anti-tank gunners, although one was eventually produced rather late in its useful life.
	www.quarry.nildram.co.uk /37-40mm.htm (3040 words)

	[WWI-L:51873] Re: Vickers gun accuracy: was Das Kindermord von Langemarck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Vickers - like all of the Maxim based weapons (with the possible exception of the.5 inch (I have heard varied reports of that weapon) was extremely accurate.
		State that the great accuracy of the gun is due to the fixed mounting and to the use of instruments, eg, the range-finder.
		State that the gun and its team are carried in a tracked carrier giving a good cross-country performance, and some armoured protection against small arms fire.
	www.ku.edu /carrie/archives/wwi-l/2004/12/msg00002.html (1067 words)

	American Handgunner: Vickers Gun! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Vickers' service record is not the reason we're here--his superlative pistolsmithing prowess is. A member of the prestigious American Pistolsmiths Guild, Vickers specializes in John Browning's 1911.
		The gun is a classic five-inch, chambered in.45 ACP and featuring the same modifications that Vickers incorporates on his personal working guns and those he builds for other operators in his unit.
		Vickers said the slide fit really doesn't have that much to do with accuracy, but shooters have come away with the impression that slide-to-frame fit is important, mainly because it's something that can easily be checked by a nimrod.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BTT/is_153_25/ai_75211979/pg_1 (1429 words)

	Why the Wing Gun Table? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Those guns were sighted in on the ground with the aircraft in a level position.
		On the SE 5a the Aldis gun sight, Vickers, and Lewis guns were all parallel to each other and sighted on the ground.
		The SE 5a should use the two gun table until the Lewis gun runs out then use the one gun table or reload and use the two gun.
	users.erinet.com /43977/_disc4/00000594.htm (280 words)

	Northwest Historical Association (NWHA) - WW2 Reenacting Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The other three guns were then aligned to one side of the lead gun and set to a parallel aim.
		With the rapid expansion in the wartime army many officers were not exposed to the use of the machine gun firing from behind their positions as either a support for attacks or for defensive coverage.
		The idea was to use the combined power of the machine gun battalions with all of the by then relatively unused anti-tank and anti-aircraft units.
	www.nwha.org /news_2Q2001/news_page4.html (1294 words)

	Vickers Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pictured above is the Vickers.303 inch Machine Gun Mk 1 on a.303 inch Machine Gun Mk IV 'B' Mounting Tripod in its 1914-1918 configuration.
		Therefore, while one member of the eight man gun team carried the gun, another would carry the tripod and the other six would have laden themselves down with belt boxes to be sure they would be able to carry out an effective performance once the gun was set up.
		The operation of the gun was recoil and fuzee spring.
	www.mgcorps.ndirect.co.uk /vickers.html (206 words)

	Juno Beach Centre - Vickers machine gun
		During the Great War, machine guns were used for both direct fire against visible targets and in an indirect role to create lethal "beaten zones" where enemy infantry could scarcely survive.
		Its gun barrel was water-cooled to keep the temperature down during rapid fire.
		The Vickers was normally fired from a tripod but could also be mounted on a carrier.
	www.junobeach.org /e/4/can-tac-inf-vic-ep.htm (216 words)

	Vickers - Surch
		A profile on the Vickers Wellington which entered service in 1938 and was operat...
		Sir Geoffrey Vickers was a wise and reflective man of affairs who had a profound influence on systems thinking and...
		Vickers had been working on jet bomber designs since 1944 but...
	www.surch.co.uk /vickers (505 words)

	Vickers .303in Water-cooled Medium Machine Gun
		It was the medium machine gun used by all British Commonwealth forces in the Korean War, although Australian forces occasionally used the US Continuous automatic fire generated tremendous heat in the barrel and Maxim overcame this problem by encasing The barrel is encased in a water jacket, containing about 7.5 pints.
		The gun was adopted by the British Army in November 1912, and remained as the standard support-fire machine gun until the middle 1960s, when it was replaced by the L7A1 GPMG.
		A Vickers gun crew lay down covering fire for 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment during the assault on Hill 317, the battle of Maryang San.
	www.rt66.com /~korteng/SmallArms/Vickers.htm (442 words)

	VICKERS 303 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This gun originally known as the Vickers-Maxim was adopted by Great Britain in 1912, it was the principal heavy rifle-calibre machine gun in both World Wars and was the standard weapon until the adoption of the L7A1 (GPMG) in the early sixties.
		The Vickers which is a modified Maxim has the reputation of being the most reliable and rugged machine gun ever built.
		The weapons used by the UK were made by Vickers at Crayford in Kent, in both ground and aircraft versions, the UK also made all the.303 inch Vickers ground guns required by the US Forces in both World Wars.
	sped2work.tripod.com /vickers.html (132 words)

	The Vickers Machine Gun: Service around the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Although the Vickers Machine Gun was in most respects a 'British' gun, Britain was by far not the only country to adopt the Vickers.
		Of the 200 AS guns, 135 were rechambered once again to 7.9 x 57R mm and redesignated the "M—18 No. 2" and the remaining 65 6.5mm guns were called the "M—18 No. 1".
		Conversion of the ground guns to 7.9 x 57R mm began in 1935 and these converted guns were called the No. 2 (as with the aircraft guns) and the.303" called the No. 1.
	www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk /world.html (2296 words)

	Vickers Machine Gun slide rule Mk III
		In the example shown if the gun is aimed at a target 1900 yards away then your own troops should not advance more than 1500 yards.
		With the gun at the base of the triangle the object is to calculate the distance to the target at the apex.
		The slide rules were used from 1924 until 1952 when range tables were again used until the Vickers gun was removed from service in 1968.
	www.sliderules.clara.net /collection/specialised/9914-vickers.htm (676 words)

	WW1 Heavy weapons, Allied
		The shell fired by this gun was 3.3-inch caliber (84mm); the shell weighed 18.5-lb (8.4kg).
		This design proved to be an excellent gun, and was the main field artillery weapon employed by the British Army, and the mainstay of Divisional artillery.
		A Mark II design came into service in 1916, with an improved recuperator (the device by which the gun is returned to the firing position after the rapid recoil produced when firing a shell) - the mechanical part of the gun that suffered most in conditions of prolonged firing.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-weapons/heavy-ww1-allied.htm (1463 words)

	O'RYAN'S ROUGHNECKS - THE VICKERS MACHINE GUN MARK I
		The machine gun used by the 27th Division was the British "Gun, Machine,.303, Mark I" commonly known as the Vickers.
		This 1917 dated glass slide shows a vickers gun with all its spare parts laid out for inspection or display.
		This gun is configured for aircraft mounting (note the ring sight) so does not show the tripod and crosshead.
	www.angelfire.com /ny5/27thdivision/vickers.html (637 words)

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