The primary variant of the BAR series was the M1918, chambered for the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and designed by John Browning in 1917 for the American Expeditionary Forces in …

M1918 may refer to: M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle; Beretta M1918; M1918 light repair truck; 3-inch Gun M1918; Ford 3-Ton M1918 World War I tank; M1918 240 mm Howitzer; Mauser …

In the autumn of 1918, a powerful new American weapon was introduced to provide assault troops that type of weapon: the Browning Automatic Rifle, then and thereafter known simply as …

2018年8月23日 · On Feb. 27, 1917, John Moses Browning took a prototype automatic rifle that he had been developing for a number of months to the Colt Patent Firearms Mfg. Co. plant in …

The Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) was a family of United States automatic rifles (or machine rifles) and light machine guns used by the United States and numerous other countries during …

2020年3月3日 · Just prior to U.S. entry into WWII, the U.S. Military adopted the final and most widely produced version of the BAR: the M1918A2. Much had changed from the original BAR.

The M1918 is a selective fire automatic rifle. It fires from an open bolt. The weapon's barrel can not be removed quickly. The M1918 gets its ammunition from a 20-round box magazine. 40 …

The M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle and its variants remained in service with the US military for nearly four decades. This is a testament of the BARs reliability in combat from across …

2020年3月10日 · From its introduction, this reliable and rugged weapon's accurate and effective fire changed the basic infantry organization and tactics of the U.S. Army and the Marine …

The M1918 mode that used .30-caliber ammunition was not capable of semiautomatic fire. It had two cyclic rates of full automatic fire, a fast one and slow one that could be adjusted by the …