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Why were machine guns invented?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

For the sake of producing a high volume of casualties on the battlefield. Even today, they serve the same function - in a US Army light infantry platoon, for example, the two medium/general purpose machine guns account for 70% of that platoon's overall firepower.

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14y ago

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