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Heavy MGs

The World Standard Maxim Gun

January 20, 2016 Ian McCollum 14
From 1887 onward, the gun Hiram Maxim was producing was what he called the World Standard. He had finally perfected the machine gun design to his satisfaction in 1887 and with this design in hand […]
Heavy MGs

Extra-Light Maxim (1895)

January 15, 2016 Ian McCollum 26
One of the relatively few successful competitors to the Maxim in the early days of the heavy machine gun was the Col Model 1895 (aka, the Potato Digger). When it was adopted by the US […]
Heavy MGs

“Transitional” Maxim

January 8, 2016 Ian McCollum 16
When we last left Hiram Maxim, he had perfected his very first machine gun – the world’s first practical machine gun, really. However, while his gun worked well, it was not yet a design which […]
Maxim "Prototype" at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. Note the absence of the rate-of-fire control arm in this version...
Heavy MGs

The First Maxim Machine Gun

December 30, 2015 Ian McCollum 31
I am going to start an intermittent series of posts on the various different types of Maxim machine guns over the next few months – there are a whole slew of them, and I have […]
Military Thought (USSR): Some Points on the Status and Development of Small Arms (1965, English translation)
Light MGs

A Soviet Look at Cold War Small Arms Development

December 29, 2015 Ian McCollum 77
I have covered various elements of small arms development during the Cold War more than a few times – usually involving the contentious process that led to the 7.62mm NATO cartridge being adopted, and the […]
2nd Lieutenant L. J. Barley of the 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), watching as a rifle grenade is prepared for firing from trenches at Grande Flamengrie Farm on the Bois Grenier sector of the line during February 1915.
Artillery

Vintage Saturday: Rifle Grenade

December 19, 2015 Ian McCollum 62
2nd Lieutenant L. J. Barley of the 1st Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), watching as a rifle grenade is prepared for firing from trenches at Grande Flamengrie Farm on the Bois Grenier sector of the line […]
Bolt Action Rifles

Gewehr 71 with Experimental Magazine at RIA

November 19, 2015 Ian McCollum 9
The Model 1871 Mauser was adopted as the newly united Germany’s first standard rifle, and it was a good design. However, it was a single shot rifle and soon it became apparent that the additional […]
Light MGs

White Prototype Open-Bolt LMG at RIA

November 14, 2015 Ian McCollum 28
Along with his two semiauto rifle prototypes, when White went to England for rifle testing he took along a work-in-progress light machine gun. The weapon was trsted by British officials, but found wanting – largely […]
Prototype

White Toggle-Locked .30-06 Prototype Rifle

November 13, 2015 Ian McCollum 18
This toggle-locking rifle chambered for the .30-06 cartridge is the second of two rifles submitted by White for the 1930 US military trials. It was not actually tested by the US, but White did take […]
garand development

White Gas-Operated .276 Prototype at RIA

November 12, 2015 Ian McCollum 26
One of the competitors against the Garand and Pedersen rifles in the 1929 and 1930 US Army trials was the White rifle. White actually submitted two rifles, but only this gas-operated design was actually tested […]

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