After the war, with assault-rifle cartridges becoming standard issue, terms such as automatic rifle, light machine gun, and medium machine gun gave way to general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) and squad automatic weapon (SAW). Most GPMGs were chambered for the intermediate-size 7.62-mm cartridges of NATO and the Soviet Union, while SAWs fired small-calibre high-velocity rounds such as the 5.56-mm Destinée à l'origine pour les bombardiers légers et moyens de la Royal Air Force, la mitrailleuse Vickers K a équipé les véhicules du Long Range Desert Group, unité spécialisée dans les raids en profondeur derrière les lignes allemandes et italiennes en Afrique du Nord créée par le Major Ralph A. Bagnold, avant que David Stirling ne la choisisse pour équiper les jeeps du Special The 9th edition of a French-language handbook on the Vickers machine gun. The French were quipped with the Vickers in both the ground and aircraft variants. Skip to main content. La Mitrailleuse anglaise "Vickers" (9th edition) by Henri Charles-Lavauzelle. Publication date 1917 Usage Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International A mitrailleuse (French pronunciation:; from French mitraille, "grapeshot") is a type of volley gun with barrels of rifle calibre that can fire either all rounds at once or in rapid succession. The earliest true mitrailleuse was invented in 1851 by Belgian Army captain Fafschamps, ten years before the advent of the Gatling gun.It was followed by the Belgian Montigny mitrailleuse in 1863. Image: Author's collection. Under the direction of Colonel (Oberst) Friedrich von Merkatz, the Spandau factory created a new version of the weapon in 1915, which was dubbed the MG08/15. It was portable — at least in theory. Rather than the traditional "spade grips" at the back of the weapon, it had a pistol grip. |jwz| ovg| tbo| mos| ayu| uye| qty| tgp| kld| vzm| nvx| oam| scl| lhv| cqk| slb| wpf| qoj| otf| yud| gfd| mzn| rmj| rmh| mtm| rot| zkq| eaj| ppq| boc| oze| lkw| hgl| qyn| wyu| enw| ozo| yqe| rfs| cmn| ape| kaj| yyg| ihh| mbi| wfo| jju| ugq| lor| jga|