Light MGs
Israeli Dror LMG
I’ve always been interested in Israeli firearms, because that nation has had more need to actually use their arms in combat in the past 50 or 60 years than almost any other nation. Couple that […]
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Light MGs
Construction of Automatic Weapons
From our friend Hrachya, we have a very cool book for you today. Titled Construction of Automatic Weapons, it was printed in Russia in 1933, and consists of line drawings of all the major machine […]
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Mexican Mendoza LMG
So, you might wonder how firearms were procured in Mexico before the ATF was around to hand them out. Would you believe indigenous development? Mexico had a couple notable firearms designers working hard in the […]
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Maxim LMG 08/15 video
We have another pretty cool machine gun today, thanks again to Steve Hill at Spotted Dog Firearms in Arizona. It’s an aerial Maxim gun, based on the 08/15 infantry Maxim. The 08/15 was a lightened […]
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Hotchkiss Portative video
The Hotchkiss Portative was the British variation of a light machine gun used widely in World War I. It was also used by the French, Belgian, and American armies (In the US, it was adopted […]
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Browning Automatic Rifle
Okay, it’s another one that’s not remotely forgotten. But we have to cover the BAR before we can effectively go into the more obscure variants of it that ARE forgotten. We’ve added a Browning Automatic […]
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Beardmore-Farquhar manual
Sometimes you can have a good idea, well executed, and well promoted – but just be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Beardmore-Farquhar machine gun is an example of just this unlucky […]
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Benet-Mercie 1909 manual
The Benet-Mercie 1909 was the first light machine gun adopted by the American military. Although named for two designers, the Benet-Mercie was basically a Hotchkiss Portative machine gun chambered for the .30-06 cartridge. The guns […]
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MG13 manual (in Spanish)
German machine gun designations are pretty easy to understand – the two digit number is the year of adoption. MG34? 1934. MG08/15? 1908, and modified in 1915. Easy, until you stumble over the MG13, adopted […]
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One More KE7 Manual
So just this past weekend I ran across another KE-7 manual, this one with a bunch of plates and a great full cutaway diagram. Figured I’d put that one up on the site now, since […]