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The rate of fire may be anywhere from 200 to 6,000 shots per minute, depending on the gun. There is no one rate of fire for all machine guns.
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What machine gun has the slowest rate of fire?
The "Potato Digger" was not the slowest rate of fire weapon. The French Chauchat machine gun fired 240 rounds per minute
Why was the machine gun used in battle?
To produce a high rate of casualties among the enemy.
What is the world's most powerful light machine gun mmg medium machine gun and hmg heavy machine gun?
light machine gun is the m249 a medium machine gun is the m240 and the heavy machine gun is the browning m2 50. cal machine gun
What machine gun the worlds fastest machine gun?
The Metal Storm is the World's fastest machine gun. It fires 1660 bullets in every second up to 1 million rounds per minute without having someone to crank it up. The Metal Storm can be an unmanned machine gun and can open fire automatically because the computer is operating the machine gun. No other machine gun in the World can fire as fast as the metal storm at that kind of firing speed. Metal Storm is one of the fastest machine gun in the World and can fire more bullets much faster than other machine guns. Metal Storm is not an actual machine gun. It is a volley gun. See the Related Question below for a better discussion of what a real machine gun is, and which has the highest rate of fire.
What is the slowest shooting machine gun?
The slowest shooting machine gun ever made would have to be the Colt 1895 best known as the Potato Digger. It had a rate of fire of only 400 rounds per minute.
What is the difference between machine gun and sub-machine gun?
A sub-machine gun fires pistol cartridges. A machine gun fires rifle rounds.
Is the BAR gun better then the browning machine gun?
The BAR machine gun is recommended for its accuracy and portability whereas with the browning you sacrifice these qualities for greater fire rate, ammo capacity and bullet penetration. Actually, the Browning Automatic Rifle (aka Browning Machine gun) IS the BAR; they are one and the same. BAR is an acronym for Browning Automatic Rifle.
What are machine gun nests?
machine gun position
How many bullets per second can an average machine gun shoot?
anywhere between 3.2 and 12 on a newer machine gun. WW2 weapons such as Browning M3 "grease gun" and Thompson submachine gun could fire at a rate of 5 to 12.5 rounds per Second. The German medium machine gun, MG42, had a rate of 25 rounds per second. The modern US M-60 evloved from this gun. Later guns such as AK-47 and M-16 could fire from 12 to 15 rounds per second.
How much was a machine gun machine gun in 1969?
Depends on the machine gun. Anywhere from $100 to several thousand dollars
Is an AK 47 a machine gun?
nope.it is not an a machine gun (u probably wont be knowing this) the minigun or gatling gun is considered to be a machine gun a proper one tho. most people say it a machine gun but it is a submachine gun
What is the worlds fastest sub machine gun?
The Metal Storm is the World's fastest machine gun. It fires 1660 bullets in every second up to 1 million rounds in one minute. It's a machine gun that has no trigger or any hammer, it can be unmanned without having some to crank it up. The metal storm open fires automatically because the computer is operating the gun. Metal Storm is not a machine gun. It is a volley gun. See the related question below for a better discussion of what constitutes a real machine gun, and which one has the highest rate of fire.
