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Because of this machine gun the military stratagy had changed instead of linking arms and marching straight at your enemy firing like they did in the revolutionary war. Trench warfare was invented so you can not be hit by the raging bullets.
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.
It is impossible to give a definitive amount. Certainly many thousands.
Britain
During World War 1 some of the weapons they used were Chlorine and mustard gases, pistols, artillery, mounted machine guns, pistols, bayonets, grenades, zepplins, tanks, u-boats, tanks and bi-planes they did not have weapons like the bazooka or the missile launcher until after world war 1.
The Vickers machine gun was designed in 1912 and was manufactured from 1912 till 1968.
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.
The British used the Vickers machine gun
There was the Browning M1895 "Potato Digger" (which was much different from the Vickers), and the Maxim machine gun (on which the Vickers was based) went into production shortly before the war kicked off.
Vickers- belt fed water cooled medium machinegun. Vickers a light, air cooled, magazine fed.
The Vickers machine gun was the primary machine gun they used in WWI.
The primary one they used was the Vickers machine gun.
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The Camel F.1 had two Vickers guns. The Camel 2F.1 only had one Vickers gun, and a Lewis gun was mounted atop the wing.
15 men
450 - 650
720 rounds a minute approximately