I choose this topic, machine guns because I think that it is a powerful weapon which killed many millions people in the war. It is interesting that one weapon can make you powerful than other people that you face. I will tell you about the machine gun during the WW1.
Machine guns of all armies were very heavy and difficult to transport because of its weight. Each weighed about 30kg to 60kg, often without their mountings, carriages, and supplies. It was the standard of a medium/heavy machine gun of the British army from before World War1 and up to 1960. Most armies had adopted some kind of air cooled machine gun so that the machine gun could fire in a longer period. Machine guns could shoot hundreds of rounds of ammunition a minute. A single machine gun was estimated to be worth as many as 60 to 100 rifles. Machine guns were a main killer in war, which they have killed thousands of people.
In 1912, the British Army adopted the Vickers as its standard machine gun; it was produced by the Vickers Company. Vickers Gun could fire over 600 rounds per minute and had a range of 4,500 yards. These machine guns were mainly used in trenches to defend Germans to cross their line. When war was declared with the British in August, 1914, Vickers was manufacturing 12 machine guns a week. By 1915, Vickers could supply the British army with 2,405 guns. These increases continued throughout World War1: 7,429 guns (1916); 21,782 guns (1917) and 39,473 guns (1918).
Germans also uses machine guns. They placed their machine guns slightly in front of their lines to ensure that the machine gun crews can see a full view of the battlefield. In the opening of the Battle of The Somme, within a minute thousands of British troops fell. As the war developed machine guns were adapted for use on tanks on broken ground, particularly on the Western Front. Then the light machine guns were adopted to be fitted in British and French aircraft after 1916 and later began the ‘dog fight’.
Machine guns of all armies were very heavy and difficult to transport because of its weight. Each weighed about 30kg to 60kg, often without their mountings, carriages, and supplies. It was the standard of a medium/heavy machine gun of the British army from before World War1 and up to 1960. Most armies had adopted some kind of air cooled machine gun so that the machine gun could fire in a longer period. Machine guns could shoot hundreds of rounds of ammunition a minute. A single machine gun was estimated to be worth as many as 60 to 100 rifles. Machine guns were a main killer in war, which they have killed thousands of people.
In 1912, the British Army adopted the Vickers as its standard machine gun; it was produced by the Vickers Company. Vickers Gun could fire over 600 rounds per minute and had a range of 4,500 yards. These machine guns were mainly used in trenches to defend Germans to cross their line. When war was declared with the British in August, 1914, Vickers was manufacturing 12 machine guns a week. By 1915, Vickers could supply the British army with 2,405 guns. These increases continued throughout World War1: 7,429 guns (1916); 21,782 guns (1917) and 39,473 guns (1918).
Germans also uses machine guns. They placed their machine guns slightly in front of their lines to ensure that the machine gun crews can see a full view of the battlefield. In the opening of the Battle of The Somme, within a minute thousands of British troops fell. As the war developed machine guns were adapted for use on tanks on broken ground, particularly on the Western Front. Then the light machine guns were adopted to be fitted in British and French aircraft after 1916 and later began the ‘dog fight’.
