Machine Guns - Forgotten Weapons

Enfield 1899 Maxim Photos

August 13, 2014 Ian McCollum 4

Here’s another set of Maxim photos, this time of an 1899 pattern gun made at Enfield. Photos courtesy of the UK MoD.

by Tom Laemlein Lost in the shuffle of Germany’s automatic weapons of the World War II era is the Louis Stange-designed MG 30. Rejected by the Reichswehr, the MG 30 ended up in licensed production […]

Vintage Saturday: Salvage

August 9, 2014 Ian McCollum 13

Finnish troops salvaging Maxim guns from a downed Russian Polikarpov R5 bomber shot down near Suistamo, Finland.

Quad MG81 Anti-Aircraft Mount

August 6, 2014 Ian McCollum 24

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 […]

Beardmore-Farquhar Photos

August 5, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

Courtesy of the UK Ministry of Defense, we have a bunch of photos of a 1920 model Beardmore-Farquhar light machine gun:

Type 11 Nambu LMG Disassembly (Video)

August 4, 2014 Ian McCollum 25

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 […]

Vintage Saturday: Cold

July 26, 2014 Ian McCollum 16

Finnish soldier with an LS-26 light machine gun, 1940.

Ohio Ordnance M1918A3 Semiauto BAR (Video)

July 14, 2014 Ian McCollum 20

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 […]

Vintage Saturday: (not) SNLF

July 5, 2014 Ian McCollum 40

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 […]

PPS-43 Development Memo

July 2, 2014 Ian McCollum 18

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 […]