All of the major players in WWI possessed machine guns before the outbreak of the war.
Germany had thirty to forty different weapons in World War I. Some of these were artillery, pistols, special weapons such as a flame thrower, machine guns and ships.
Germany+Japan
Most of the parties involved already had machine guns in their inventory prior to the outbreak of the First World War.
Yes, they did have machine guns in WW2
Yes. There were machine guns in WW1. There were Gatlin Guns, a type of machine gun, in the Civil War.Yes
the machine guns
The first machine gun was the gatling gun, invented in 1861 There were a variety of multi barrelled guns invented prior to this, but they are not considered to be machine guns.
The machine guns in 1914 needed 6-8 one to fire, one to reload ammunition rest to carry gun. The machine guns needed to be on a flat surface and was placed on a tripod. They also had a fire power of 100 guns. The Vickers machine gun was sued through the first world war and through the second world war.
mustard gas, machine guns & mobile mines that were fore runner of the modern tankThe tank or mobile artillery was invented and first used by the allies!
Answer One of the most poplar machine guns was the Maxim, which was named after its inventor.
All of the major players possessed machine guns by the outbreak of the war.
The first one manufactured in Germany was the Maxim Model 08, which they had to licence from the British, and which was designed by an American. After the war, "German" machine guns get a bit iffy... the Treaty of Versailles prevented Germany from developing military arms, so, as a loophole, they did their military development outside of Germany, in countries such as Sweden and the Soviet Union.