The machine-gun was a game-changing weapon of mass destruction ... In the battlefield conditions of WW1 this meant an average of 500 rounds a minute with a range of over 3,000 yards or 2,743m.

On Jan. 24, four members of the American Fork American Legion Post 49 traveled to the Fort Douglas Military Museum in Salt Lake City to place a 1908 Maxim machine gun in the museum as a donation. Post ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have designed a new technology that takes inspiration from WWI fighter aircraft machine gun and propeller synchronization to manipulate cell ...

The data for the lost or stolen firearms last year showed two lost WWII-era guns (a Luger pistol and Sten Gun), a WW1 machine gun (lost and subsequently found), and a stolen Glock pistol yet to be ...

The observer was armed with one .303 Lewis Machine Gun firing forward. Later, another Lewis was added, mounted to fire backwards. This arrangement was described by Frederick Libby, the first ...

In the later years of WWI, machine guns are used on both sides with devastating impact, and by WWII, along with assault rifles, they become the mainstay of the infantry. Skip to main content Guns ...