2018年8月2日 · Invented by an American, Colonel Isaac Lewis, the Lewis Gun was the most used light machine gun of the war with Belgium, the Russian Empire, the US Marine Corps and most famously by the British & Commonwealth forces all fielding the weapon. Captured examples were even used by the German Army.

The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, [4] and widely used by troops of the British Empire during the war.

A light machine gun (LMG) is a light-weight machine gun designed to be operated by a single infantryman, with or without an assistant, as an infantry support weapon. LMGs firing cartridges of the same caliber as the other riflemen of the same combat unit are often referred to as squad automatic weapons .

The Chauchat ("show-sha", French pronunciation: [ʃoʃa]) was the standard light machine gun or "machine rifle" of the French Army during World War I (1914–18). Its official designation was " Fusil Mitrailleur Modele 1915 CSRG " ("Machine Rifle Model 1915 CSRG").

2017年9月28日 · The heavy machine-gun was a vital defensive weapon that enabled troops to mow down entire formations of attacking enemy troops. It slowed down the pace of war, giving an advantage to defenders. Light machine-guns were designed to counter it and to provide rapid firepower to troops on the move.

The First World War saw the machine gun come into its own, playing a large part in creating the unbreakable stalemate which gripped the Western Front. In an effort to harness the firepower of the heavy, water-cooled machine guns for offensive purposes many of the combatant nations turned to light machine guns.

2021年5月20日 · Machine guns were one of the most important weapons of World War I. In particular, the First World War was primarily a defensive war in that countries established defensive trench systems where they stopped enemy advances. The machine gun was vitally important to this defensive strategy, and gave the defending army a large advantage.

At the outbreak of World War 1, all major powers equipped their infantry with heavy, water-cooled machine guns based on the Maxim design. The British Vickers, German MG 08, Russian PM M1910, and Austro-Hungarian Schwarzlose M.07/12 were all broadly similar, weighing between 50-70 lbs and requiring a crew of 4-6 men to transport and operate.

The machine gun revolutionized combat efforts and quickly drove out nations with their horse-drawn carriages into submission. From its bare roots beginnings to the evolution of this iconic weapon that is still in use today, this infographic takes a look at how the machine gun came about, how it managed to almost single handedly change the ...

This gave the unique profile known to many WW1 enthusiasts. The LMG 08/15 T he Fokker E1 was the first German aircraft to carry a synchronised machine gun, the LMG 08.