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Vickers machine gun
History
The Vickers machine gun was based on the success Maxim gun in the late 19th century. After purchasing the company outright in Maxim 1896, Vickers took the design of the Maxim gun and it has improved, which reduces its weight by taking any unnecessary parts and adding a muzzle booster.
The British Army has officially adopted the Vickers gun as its standard machine gun November 26, 1912, using the sides of their maxims. There were still large shortages when the First World War began, and the British Expeditionary Force was still equipped with maxims when sent to France in 1914. Vickers was in fact threatened with prosecution for war profiteers, because of the exorbitant price he demanded for each firearm. Consequently, the price has been reduced. As the war progressed, and an expanded, it became a weapon of the British army main engine, and has served on all fronts during the conflict. When the gun was adopted as a light machine gun and issued to infantry units, the Vickers guns were redefined as machine guns, retired infantry units, and grouped into the hands of the new Machine Gun Corps (0 so heavy 5 in/12.7 mm caliber machine guns appeared, tripod-mounted rifle caliber machine guns as the Vickers medium machine guns became). After the First World War, the Machine Gun Corps (MGC) was dissolved and the Vickers returned to infantry units. Before the Second World War, there were plans to replace the barrel Vickers, one of the contenders was the gun of 7.92 mm (0.312 in) Besa machine (a Czech design), who became army rifle British standard machine-mounted tanks. However, the Vickers remained in service in the British Army until 30 March 1968. His last operation was in use during the emergency Radfan Aden. His successor in service in the United Kingdom is the L7 GPMG.
Using air
The Vickers gun has become a weapon of series of French and British military aircraft, especially after 1916. Although heavier than Lewis, and using a power strip that has proven problematic in the air, closed his round shooting bolt made it much easier to synchronize to enable it to fire through the propellers aircraft. The famous Sopwith Camel and SPAD XIII types used twin synchronized Vickers, like most British and French fighters between 1918 and the mid-1930s. In air, the heavy water cooling system is unnecessary, but because the alleged weapon barrel recoil, the (empty) water storage barrel jacket or casing needed to be preserved. Slots were cut in the barrel jacket with cooling air.
As the machine gun armament combat aircraft fuselage to the wings moved in the years preceding the Second World War, the Vickers with its fabric belts is generally replaced by the rapid-fire Browning Model 1919 uses metallic cartridges linked. Several British bombers and attack aircraft of World War II gun mounted Vickers K or VGO, a completely different design.
Variants
Main article: Vickers machine gun 0.50
The bigger size (half an inch) version of the Vickers has been used for armored combat vehicles and marine use.
Guns, Machine, Vickers, 0.5 inch, Mc. It was used in the tanks, the earlier mark I have been the model of development. This entry into service in 1933 and was obsolete in 1944. Shoots simple or automatic, he had a pistol-type trigger rather than shovels of 0, 303 (7.7 mm) cartridge.
Guns, Machine, Vickers, 0.5 inch, Mc. III was used as anti-aircraft gun aboard British ships. This variation is generally four guns mounted on a rotation 360 (80-10) lifting housing. The belts have been rolled into a spiral and placed in the hopper side of each firearm. The heavy ball plain weighed 1.3 oz (37 g) and was good for 1,500 sq. ft. (1,400 m) Range (1,300 m). Maximum rate of fire for the Mark III was about 700 rpm from a belt of 200 rounds on a drum. They were equipped with e.