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What machine gun was used in world war 1?
The British used the Vickers machine gun
What were the main british machine guns used in world war 1?
The Vickers machine gun was the primary machine gun they used in WWI.
What is a vickers gun?
The Vickers - machine gun - was developed based on the Maxim machine gun which was first real automatic machine gun. Vickers was an improvement and fired the .303 cartridge - extremely accurate and reliable. Used by British army during the first world war and following for many years.
When the machine guns first used?
the first rapid fire gun was the hand crannked gatling gun used in the civil war but the maxim was the first true machine gun which was developed not long after the gatling
What was the name of the machine gun used by Britain during World War 1?
The primary one they used was the Vickers machine gun.
What types of machine guns were used in World War 2?
In World War 2 there were three types of machine guns used: squad support weapon, medium machine gun, and Heavy Machine gun such as the Browning M2, and the M1919
Who invented the first airplane mounted machine gun?
The aircraft mounted machine gun was at first simply a ground machine mounted for a gunner to fire. All sides in WW1 used it. The first successful machine gun fired by a pilot was the Lewis machine gun on a special mounting attached to the top wing, allowing the gun to fire over the propellor.
Where were machine guns used?
Machine guns were first used in the trenches of the First World War. They were mainly used as defensive weapons because they were too heavy to carry, and they required three or so men to operate them. The first true rapid fire gun, the Gatling gun, was used after the Civil War in engagements against Indian tribes.
World War I was the first time that were used as weapons of war?
* Tanks were first used in the First World War. * Poison gasses were first used in the First World War. * Airplanes were first used as weapons in the First world War. * Machine Guns * Carriers we're first used in World War 1.There may be other answers Note: The Maxim Gun, the first machine gun, saw much use in Africa with the British, long before the First World War - having been invented in 1884 and first used by British forces in Matabeleland in what was known as The First Matabele War, in 1893 - 94. As Hilaire Belloc wrote in "The Modern Traveller" (published 1898) "Whatever happens we have gotThe Maxim Gun, and they have not."
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 was used for the first time in the Mexican-American war?
THE FIRST MACHINE GUN Built by Gatling
Who invented and devoloped the machine gun used in world war 1?
I think Hiram Maxim was chiefly involved in the creation of the machine gun. There were other developers.
