Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Mitrailleuses
From left to right, a 1914 Hotchkiss, a captured German MG08, and a 1907 St. Etienne.
Month: January 2015
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Tab Clearing
A few things that have backed up and are worth sharing… First off, I had the opportunity to be on a local radio program with my friends Karl and Aaron. It was a lot of […]
Shotgun
Slow Motion: Remington Model 11 Shotgun
Sporting shotguns are not normally something to catch my eye, but the Remington Model 11 is a bit different. It’s the first mass-produced semiauto shotgun in the world, it’s a John Browning design, and it’s […]
Interview
Jim Sullivan on the M16 in Vietnam
When I have the chance to interview Jim Sullivan, one of the original designers of the AR15, one of the subjects that came up (not surprisingly) was the record of failures of the M16 early […]
Light MGs
Hefah Machine Gun
The Hefah machine gun was a wartime expedient British light machine gun design. It was created by a private company (the Ductile Steel Company) in 1940, in response to a generalized concern that all LMG […]
Artillery
US M3 37mm Antitank Gun (Video)
The M3 was the first real anti-tank gun adopted by the US military, and it was not formally adopted until 1940 – and was thoroughly obsolete in Europe by 1942. The initial design was based […]
Submachine Guns
Vintage Saturday: Child Labor
PPD-40 submachine guns being assembled by young girls.
Light MGs
Slow Motion: .303 Lewis Gun
A Lewis Gun, in .303 British, at 2000 frames per second: The Lewis Gun was developed by American Isaac Newton Lewis shortly before WWI, but the US military was not interested in it (in part […]