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.
What do you mean? It is used because it still does its job.
It's when a machine gun enters the nose.
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.
Machine Gun Corps ended in 1922.
The British used the Vickers machine gun
The Vickers machine gun was the primary machine gun they used in WWI.
The primary one they used was the Vickers machine gun.
A Lewis gun was an early type of machine gun used in WW1.
the infantry used: lee enfield 303, bren light machine gun, vickers machine gun, Thompson sub machine gun the sten was not yet issued to troops in Africa.
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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 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
The .45 Thompson sub-machine gun and M3 sub machine gun (grease gun) were used in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam War. A sub-machine gun is called a SUB machine gun because it uses "pistol" ammunition. The M3 sub-machinegun looked exactly like a grease gun; hence the name.
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
The M3A1 "grease gun" was used throughout the war until 1992.
The Kord machine gun is a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun. It was designed in the 1990's by V.A. Degtyarev Plant in Russia. It is used by Russian police and Army.