Not actual machine guns, but something of a predecessor to it - the hand cranked Gatling Gun.
Yes, they did have machine guns in WW2
the machine guns
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.
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.
Answer One of the most poplar machine guns was the Maxim, which was named after its inventor.
Yes. There were machine guns in WW1. There were Gatlin Guns, a type of machine gun, in the Civil War.Yes
no they used swords
They used their modern sniper rifles and high-powered machine guns.
They didn't really have machine guns, per se. They had some rapid fire weapons which could be considered predecessors to machine guns, such as the Gatling Gun. The advantage it provided was much the same as what modern machine guns provide - a high casualty producing weapon with suppression capabilities.
Yes, they did have machine guns in WW2
Weapons were used in battle during the civil war, at many battlefields in both North and South territory. The early forms of machine guns were used for the first time in the Civil War.
The civil war was more deadly.
the machine guns
Machine guns were in use BEFORE WW 1. They were around for the entire war.
15- 20 lbs was the common weight of civil war guns not artillery just guns rifles and muskets included
The Bren light machine guns were used in World War II, the Korean war, the Falklands War and the 1991 Gulf War. Bren light guns were a series of light machine guns adopted by the British in the 1930's.
All of the major players in WWI possessed machine guns before the outbreak of the war.