Medium MGs
Vintage Saturday: Not for Squeamish Collectors
Russian Colt 1895 machine gun destroyed on the Eastern front, WWI.
Machine Guns
Heavy MGs
Japanese Type 1 HMG
I was recently contacted by a fellow looking for information on the Japanese Type 1 heavy machine gun – a replacement for the Type 92 whose name would suggest it was adopted in 1941, but […]
Submachine Guns
Vintage Saturday: Mountaineer
Not sure which army exactly, but he has a PPSh-41 (or copy) and plenty of rope…
Aircraft MGs
Vintage Saturday: Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
Parabellum 1914 MG in gunnery school, Belgium, 1918 (photo from Drake Goodman)
Accessories
Vintage Saturday: Everyone Likes Kittens
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.
Accessories
Browning 1919 Experimental Belt Box
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 […]
Conversion
Browning M2 “Anti-Mechanization Weapon”
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 […]
Light MGs
Belt-Fed Johnson LMGs
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 […]
Light MGs
Johnson M1944E1 LMG
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 […]
Heavy MGs
Vickers Cal .30 Parts List
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!