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	Vickers machine gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled.303 inch (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by the Vickers company, originally for the British Army.
		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).
		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 (719 words)

	Machine gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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).
		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.
		A 7.62 mm GAU-17 gatling gun of the U.S. Navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Machine_gun (3955 words)

	The Machine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Machine guns of all armies were of the heavy variety and decidedly ill-suited to portability for use with rapidly advancing infantry troops.
		Light machine guns were adopted too for incorporation into aircraft from 1915 onwards, for example the Vickers, particularly with the German adoption of interrupter equipment (whereby a light machine gun could be fired through the propeller blades of an aircraft).
		In use by the German army from 1915, the Bergmann 7.92mm machine gun was primarily used to supplement supplies of the superior Maschinengewehr 08 as used by the infantry and by airmen.
	www.sawargamer.co.za /Articles/showArticle.asp?Art=38 (2657 words)

	First World War.com - Weapons of War - Machine Guns
		Machine guns of all armies were largely of the heavy variety and decidedly ill-suited to portability for use by rapidly advancing infantry troops.
		As the war developed machine guns were adapted for use on tanks on broken ground, particularly on the Western Front (where the majority of machine guns were deployed).
		Light machine guns were adopted too for incorporation into aircraft from 1915 onwards, for example the Vickers, particularly with the German adoption of interrupter equipment, which enabled the pilot to fire the gun through the aircraft's propeller blades.
	www.firstworldwar.com /weaponry/machineguns.htm (1049 words)

	Vickers K machine gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vickers K gun known as the Vickers Gas Operated (VGO) in British service, was a rapid firing machine gun developed for use by observers in aircraft.
		The Vickers K was a development of the Vickers-Berthier (VB) light machine gun.
		The Vickers K was fitted to a number of 2 and 3 seater aircraft in British service such as the Fairey Swordfish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vickers_K_machine_gun (232 words)

	Machine Gun - Military History Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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_guns
		Machine guns were one of the main killers in the war and accounted for many thousands of deaths.
		Machine guns could shoot hundreds of rounds of ammunition a minute and the standard military tactic of World War One was the infantry charge.
		This British Vickers machine gun is being fired by a team of two who are wearing early gas masks in case of a gas attack.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /machine_guns.htm (331 words)

	Western Front Association Contributed Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The gun's mechanism first had to be cocked manually by pulling back a crank handle on the right hand side of the body, but once the trigger was pressed the lock went forward and the gun would continue to fire until the trigger was released or it ran out of ammunition.
		On later tripods a dial, graduated in degrees, was incorporated in the mounting to enable the gun to be readily laid on a particular bearing.
		The machine gunner fired from a sitting position, holding two wooden grips which were fixed at the rear of the gun.
	www.westernfront.co.uk /thegreatwar/articles/weapons/vickers2.htm (694 words)

	Vickers machine gun: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession....
		The.303 british (7.7 x 56 mm r) is a rifle and machine gun cartridge first developed in britain in the 1880s as a flpowder round, later adapted...
		The lewis gun was a pre-wwi era british machine gun that continued to see service all the way through wwii....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/vickers_machine_gun.htm (1018 words)

	The Machine Gun Corps in 1914-1918
		The Vickers machine gun is fired from a tripod, and is cooled by water held in a jacket against the barrel.
		The machine guns of the 2nd and 47th Division fired an indirect barrage over the heads of their advancing infantry, and behind the German trenches (in other words, this was an interdiction barrage, to stop German attempts to reinforce or re-supply their front, during the Battle of Loos, on
		Machine guns for these tasks were generally placed about 1000 yards behind the advancing infantry, and were moved up as soon as the enemy positions were captured.
	www.1914-1918.net /mgc.htm (1033 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.
		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.
		The third machine gun battalion was a division unit, under command of the division commander.
	www.oryansroughnecks.org /vickers.html (637 words)

	Vickers Mk I Heavy Machine Gun
		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)

	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)

	The Vickers Machine Gun
		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 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.machineguncorps.co.uk /vickers.html (422 words)

	Vickers Gun
		In 1912 the British Army adopted the Vickers as its standard machine gun.
		The Vickers Gun used a 250 round fabric-belt magazine and had the reputation as a highly reliable weapon.
		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)

	Military Factory - Vickers Machine Gun MK1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Vickers MK1 machine gun was the light/heavy machine gun of the British Army during the two world wars.
		In an age where the machine gun could change the face and fortune of those on the battlefield, the water-cooled MK1 could provide suppression effects over a wide area.
		The system was truly a water-cooled machine gun and was supported by water cannister to keep the barrel from overheating.
	www.militaryfactory.com /smallarms/popup.asp?smallarms_id=62 (104 words)

	World War I - New Technolgies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As he was watching battles between soldiers carrying machine guns killing thousands of infantrymen he wrote "petrol tracers on the caterpillar principal and armored with hardened steel plates" could stand against the bullets of a machine gun.
		Whenever a blade was at a position where it might be hit by the gun, the cam activated a pushrod that stopped the gun from firing.
		At the beginning of the war the Vickers was the British army's standard machine gun.
	techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us /Group9/tech.htm (1556 words)

	Vickers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Vickers Machine Gun was an improved version of the Maxim Machine Gun that had been in widespread use with a number of armies prior to the introduction of the Vickers MG.
		I.303" Vickers Machine Gun was a water cooled, gas operated MG introduced into the British Army on the 26th of November 1912.
		The gun was heafty piece with gun alone weighing 33lb minus the cooling water.
	www.users.bigpond.com /kgb33/Weapons/Vickers/vickers.html (192 words)

	Vickers Machine Gun - UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	The Vickers Machine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Vickers 'K' Gas Operated Machine Gun was a development of the Vickers-Berthier Class 'L' Land Service Light Machine Gun which was passed over for introduction into the British Army because of the success of the Bren Gun.
		The Vickers 'K' gun was originally an Royal Air Force observers gun as it had a high rate of fire which made it suitable for shooting at high speed planes and getting as many bullets on target in the short space of time in which a plane would have been visible and in range.
		Another user of the K gun in a jeep mounted role was the 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron of the Reconnaisance Corps attached to the 1st Airborne Division.
	www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk /kgun.htm (751 words)

	Vickers Medium Machine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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 machine gun - Wikimedia Commons
		The Vickers machine gun was a water-cooled.303 inch (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by the Vickers company.
		Vickers gun crew wearing gas helmets during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916
		British commandos man two Vickers machine guns in the shattered outskirts of Wesel, 23 March 1945.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Vickers_machine_gun (82 words)

	REME Weapons Collection - Machine Guns - 3
		This gun was so correct in conception that subsequent changes in the mechanism were of a relatively minor nature and many of the alterations were to reduce the original great weight.
		It was used against the Matabele in the campaign of 1897, on the NW frontier of India during the Chitral Expedition of 1895, during the Sudan Campaign in 1896 and again during the Boer War of 1889 to 1902.
		Like the MG 34 (Weapon No 123), this is a dual purpose machine gun and might be considered something of a pace setter in its method of manufacture.
	www.rememuseum.org.uk /arms/machguns/armmg3.htm (1601 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)

	3 Sea Bees - Nieuport17-C1 Documentation
		The 17 were equipped with the Lewis machine gun on the top wing and in mid year a synchronized Vickers Machine-gun was introduced firing though the propeller.
		Sergeant Foster of number 11 squadron devised a sliding rail mounting assembly for the Lewis gun that allowed the pilot to pull the gun on and aiming it upward to fire in the under side (belly) of a enemy aircraft.
		The armament was in the beginning a Lewis machine gun mounted on top of the upper wing.
	www.3seabees.com /nieuport/documentation.html (1628 words)

	Juno Beach Centre - Vickers machine gun
		Officers of the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa demonstrate the 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.
	www.junobeach.org /e/4/can-tac-inf-vic-ep.htm (216 words)

	Western Front Association Contributed Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They developed their own Maxim gun, which later evolved into the Model 1908 or Spandau (after the town where a government arms factory was situated).
		This was a tripod mounted, water-cooled gun, fed by a canvas belt holding 250 rounds.
		At the beginning of the First World War, it is understood that Britain had a mere 109 Vickers Mark I machine guns in the Army, and 2 in the Royal Navy.
	www.westernfront.co.uk /thegreatwar/articles/weapons/vickers1.htm (547 words)

	Support Weapons; Vickers M-Gun, 2 inch Mortar, 25 Pounder.
		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.
		By relining these guns, using modem technology, it was possible to increase their calibre to permit them to fire a heavier shell.
	au.geocities.com /thefortysecondinww2/level1/line2/support_weapons.htm (1144 words)

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