Depends on what time period you are asking about. Currently, it is the M16 rifle, or the M4 carbine version. During the late 1950s-60s, it was the M14. During WW II it was the M1 Garand and M1 Carbine. During WW I it was the 1903 Springfield (or the Enfield version) Before that, the 30-40 Krag, and before that the Trapdoor Springfield in 45-70.
the AK-47 is by far the most used machine-gun to date, it is estimated that 1 billion people have been killed with this weapon in armed conflicts ranging from Africa to Eastern Europe to the Middle East to Central Asia to Southeast Asia… Except that the AK-47 is not a machine gun, if you want to get technical - it's an assault rifle, whereas a machine gun is a support weapon, usually crew served. In which case, it would probably be the PK machine gun, followed closely by the FN MAG.
If you are referring to the present, today's most powerful sub-machine gun is the H&K UMP .45 cal sub-machine gun, or the Kriss Vector SMG. if you are referring to the past however then its undeniably the Tommy Gun. also a .45 cal sub-machine gun.
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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.
For the same reason that most inventors create things- to make money from the sale of the thing. The Puckle Gun wasn't actually a machine gun, though.
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
The British used the Vickers machine gun
The most dramatic weapon they used was machine gun, explosives, and airplanes..
The Vickers machine gun was the primary machine gun they used in WWI.
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
MACHINE GUN KELLY was one of the most famous GANGSTERS.
the AK-47 is by far the most used machine-gun to date, it is estimated that 1 billion people have been killed with this weapon in armed conflicts ranging from Africa to Eastern Europe to the Middle East to Central Asia to Southeast Asia… Except that the AK-47 is not a machine gun, if you want to get technical - it's an assault rifle, whereas a machine gun is a support weapon, usually crew served. In which case, it would probably be the PK machine gun, followed closely by the FN MAG.
The 1944 ppsh 41 is a Soviet Sub-Machine gun
Americans used mainly French machine guns such as the 8mm 1914 Hotchkiss mg and the Chauchat (light machine gun) which was apparently very unreliable due to grit and mud jamming the gun. The reason America had such great machine guns from then on, was the need to have their own machine guns but also to eliminate French unreliability. America then made machine guns such as the Browning 1917 mg and the BAR light machine gun (for walking fire) which soldiered on through to the Korean War. Cheers Big John
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.
The primary one they used was the Vickers machine gun.
machine guns were used for rapidly clearing trenches. one of the most famous is the Tommy gun used by the Americans in ww2. mounted, or placed, machine guns were used in defense of trenches to mow down attacking enemy troops quickly in the no mans land between the trenches. the machine gun was used most in this way and is a major factor in the stalemate of trench warfare.