Heavy MGs
Enfield 1899 Maxim Photos
Here’s another set of Maxim photos, this time of an 1899 pattern gun made at Enfield. Photos courtesy of the UK MoD.
Machine Guns
Light MGs
Aircraft MGs
Vintage Saturday: Salvage
Finnish troops salvaging Maxim guns from a downed Russian Polikarpov R5 bomber shot down near Suistamo, Finland.
Aircraft MGs
Quad MG81 Anti-Aircraft Mount
by Tom Laemlein As World War II progressed, the Luftwaffe looked to increase firepower wherever possible, from deploying large-caliber air weapons or increasing the rate of fire with smaller, rifle-caliber weapons. Such is the case […]
Light MGs
Beardmore-Farquhar Photos
Courtesy of the UK Ministry of Defense, we have a bunch of photos of a 1920 model Beardmore-Farquhar light machine gun:
Light MGs
Type 11 Nambu LMG Disassembly (Video)
Thanks to the hospitality of the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, we had a chance to examine and disassemble a Japanese Type 11 light machine gun. This is, of course, the very unusual hopper-fed […]
Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: Cold
Finnish soldier with an LS-26 light machine gun, 1940.
Light MGs
Ohio Ordnance M1918A3 Semiauto BAR (Video)
I’ve written a fair amount about the BAR, so I won’t belabor the point here – if you would like more to read, check out my general history of the BAR and comparison between the […]
Submachine Guns
Vintage Saturday: (not) SNLF
Japanese SNLF marines Chinese troops with SIG M1920 submachine guns. The SIG M1920 was a licensed copy of the German MP18/I, and SIG sold them to Japan in 7.63mm Mauser caliber. They were used by […]
General Purpose MGs
PPS-43 Development Memo
Today, I’m swiping another document from the cool-but-stagnant Soviet Gun Archives. This time, it’s a memo requesting the development of what would become the PPS-43: As I haven’t had time to learn Russian yet, I […]