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Submachine Guns

Vintage Saturday: Mountaineer

April 5, 2014 Ian McCollum 26
Not sure which army exactly, but he has a PPSh-41 (or copy) and plenty of rope…
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Aircraft MGs

Vintage Saturday: Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

March 29, 2014 Ian McCollum 58
Parabellum 1914 MG in gunnery school, Belgium, 1918 (photo from Drake Goodman)
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Accessories

Vintage Saturday: Everyone Likes Kittens

March 22, 2014 Ian McCollum 32
The lighter side of war – German soldiers in a halftrack playing with a kitten and their MG34 mount (note the periscope optic. Photo from WarAlbum.ru.
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Accessories

Browning 1919 Experimental Belt Box

March 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 10
About a year ago, I wrote a post about some Browning 1919 feeding devices that were patented but never went into production. Well, reader Alex found photos of one of them in the Springfield Armory […]
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Conversion

Browning M2 “Anti-Mechanization Weapon”

February 19, 2014 Ian McCollum 100
During the latter half of the 1930s, the US Cavalry decided to experiment with adapting the .50 caliber Browning M2 heavy machine gun into a bipod-mounted, shoulder-fired configuration. The goal was to devise a variant […]
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Light MGs

Belt-Fed Johnson LMGs

February 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 33
Since we just took a look at the final American iteration of the magazine-fed Johnson LMG (the system would live on briefly in Israeli service as the Dror), we should also take this time to […]
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Light MGs

Johnson M1944E1 LMG

February 5, 2014 Ian McCollum 36
In addition to his work on designing a basic infantry shoulder rifle, Melvin Maynard Johnson and put a lot of effort into creating a light machine gun for US military forces to use. In terms […]
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Heavy MGs

Vickers Cal .30 Parts List

January 31, 2014 Ian McCollum 15
Presented for general reference: An illustrated parts list for the .30-06 caliber Vickers machine gun and accessories. Complete with translations between English and American!
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Manual machine guns

Montigny Mitrailleuse Photos

January 29, 2014 Ian McCollum 42
The Mitrailleuse was one of the first pseudo-machine guns – the first ones were developed prior to the Gattling, but they continued to be purchased by military forces through the 1870s. There were several versions, […]
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Andrews Machine Carbine

January 24, 2014 Ian McCollum 77
I’m flattered to say that we received another research question from the Pattern Room, and a bit dejected to say that once again it was something I couldn’t provide a good answer to. However, the […]

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