Machine Gun

Author : Anthony G. Williams,Maxim Popenker
Publisher : Crowood Press UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1847970303

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Machine Gun by Anthony G. Williams,Maxim Popenker Pdf

The machine gun had a dramatic effect on the conduct of warfare; one or two men operating a single machine could produce the same weight of fire as a squadron of rifles, and when used against an inferior enemy, the effect could be devestating. During the First World War, the use of the machine gun in conjunction with massed barbed wire and other obstacles put an end to battlefield mobility until new weapons and tactics could be devised. This book describes the development of the machine gun from the earliest models to the present day. The focus is very much on portable infantry weapons used in the support role, so automatic cannon of 20mm and larger calibres are excluded. The categories of weapon included are, therefore, Light Machine Guns [LMGs], a term which includes the Squad Automatic Weapon [SAW] and Light Support Weapon [LSW]; Medium Machine Guns [MMGs]; Heavy Machine Guns [HMGs] and General Purpose Machine Guns [GPMGs]. One specialist variety of machine guns is included in a separate chapter: the grenade machine gun [GMG], also known as the automatic grenade launcher [AGL]. With a country-by-country breakdown of machine guns, including comprehensive appendices of gun and ammunition data, along with hundreds of photographs, this is a comprehensive study of a most effective battlefield weapon.

Author : Chris McNab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472819680

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The FN MAG Machine Gun by Chris McNab Pdf

For six decades, the 7.62mm FN MAG has been a dominant general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) in worldwide arsenals. Three qualities have guaranteed this enduring status – reliability, ease of operation, and firepower. Several nations have license-produced the weapon as their standard GPMG, including the British (as the L7) and the Americans (M240), and in total more than 80 nations have adopted the FN MAG. The machine gun has also been modified extensively for vehicular, naval, and aircraft platforms, demonstrating versatility in the air, on sea, and on land. In this book, Chris McNab charts the technical evolution of this extraordinary weapon, created by Belgian company Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal. From the jungles of South East Asia, to the deserts of the Middle East, and the icy battlefields of the Falklands, this study explores the origins, development, combat use, and legacy of the FN MAG machine gun, a dominant weapon in its field for more than a half-century.

Author : George M. Chinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125805244X

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The MacHine Gun V1 by George M. Chinn Pdf

Author : Eliot Rahal,Ryan Cady,Machine Gun Kelly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781940878508

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Machine Gun Kelly's Hotel Diablo by Eliot Rahal,Ryan Cady,Machine Gun Kelly Pdf

"Between Heaven and Hell lies a waystation for the soul--a place where your deeds in life are the keys to your eternity in the afterlife--at the Hotel Diablo. And it's Lydia Lopez's first night behind the front desk. Every guest's got a story to tell and a lesson to learn... Co-written by film and music superstar Machine Gun Kelly with Eliot Rahal (Knock Em Dead) and Ryan Cady (Future State: Green Lantern). Art by Martin Morazzo (Ice Cream Man), Victor Ibaez (Jean Grey), Amilcar Pinna (Generation X), Nelson Blake II (Byte-Sized), Roberta Ingranata (Doctor Who), and Rachel Smartt.

Author : John Ellis
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0801833582

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The Social History of the Machine Gun by John Ellis Pdf

It necessitated a technological response: first the armored tank, then the jet fighter, and, perhaps ultimately, the hydrogen bomb.

Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849086578

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Browning .50-caliber Machine Guns by Gordon L. Rottman Pdf

The Browning “50-cal” has become the longest serving weapon in the US inventory. The “fifty” has been employed in every imaginable role for a machine gun. It is considered such an effective and reliable weapon that few countries ever attempted to develop an equivalent weapon. Even the Japanese created a copy of it during World War II when the US was producing literally thousands every month to use in every theater. This is a history of the development of this famous weapon, its most critical operational use and the variants that have been produced to keep it at the forefront of the action.

Author : Paul M. Barrett
Publisher : Crown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307719959

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Glock by Paul M. Barrett Pdf

The Glock pistol is America’s Gun. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists and coveted by cops and crooks alike. Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, the pistol arrived in America at a fortuitous time. Law enforcement agencies had concluded that their agents and officers, armed with standard six-round revolvers, were getting "outgunned" by drug dealers with semi-automatic pistols; they needed a new gun. With its lightweight plastic frame and large-capacity spring-action magazine, the Glock was the gun of the future. You could drop it underwater, toss it from a helicopter, or leave it out in the snow, and it would still fire. It was reliable, accurate, lightweight, and cheaper to produce than Smith and Wesson’s revolver. Filled with corporate intrigue, political maneuvering, Hollywood glitz, bloody shoot-outs—and an attempt on Gaston Glock’s life by a former lieutenant—Glock is not only the inside account of how Glock the company went about marketing its pistol to police agencies and later the public, but also a compelling chronicle of the evolution of gun culture in America.

Author : P.A. Luty
Publisher : Paladin Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0873649834

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Expedient Homemade Firearms by P.A. Luty Pdf

The author provides clear, step-by-step instructions for and expedient 9mm submachine gun. It is easily constructed from readily available materials, primarily steel tubing; it does not require a lathe and milling machine and it can be built by just about anyone in about a week. For Academic Study Only

Author : Paul Ruffin,Bob Conroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : M240 machine gun
ISBN : 1937875830

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The M240 Machine Gun by Paul Ruffin,Bob Conroy Pdf

The M240 Machine Gun traces the development of the weapon, currently the primary medium-weight machine gun of our military, through the latest configuration, the M240 SLR, designed and manufactured by Ohio Ordnance. When the United States military determined during the late 1970s that it was time to find a replacement for older machine guns in the services, they initiated an extensive search for a weapon that would fire the 7.62 Nato round and prove economical, adaptable in many configurations, relatively lightweight, accurate, and more reliable than its predecessors. The clear winner was the Belgium-made Fabrique Nationale MAG, later adapted and renamed the M240, a belt-fed 7.62 air-cooled weapon easily adapted for use on ground vehicles, aircraft, and seagoing craft and light enough to be carried and operated by a single soldier. Today the M240 is the primary medium machine gun of our armed forces and of many of our allies across the globe. "Relatively few fully transferable MAGs are in civilian hands, and the cost of a transferable MAG of any sort is upward of $70,000. Ohio Ordnance Works (OOW) is offering a semi-automatic-only version of the M240 as its M240 SLR (for self-loading rifle). The M240 SLR is a mix of original M240 components and parts designed and manufactured by OOW. The right sideplate, which is the receiver according to the BATFE, is thicker than the military M240 and the interior parts have been reduced accordingly to ensure that fully automatic components cannot be inserted. Further, the SLR cannot accept a military trigger group or operating rod."--National Rifle Association Staff

Author : George Morgan Chinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Machine guns
ISBN : UIUC:30112008345032

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The Machine Gun by George Morgan Chinn Pdf

Author : George M. Chinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Machine guns
ISBN : IND:30000106675931

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The Machine Gun by George M. Chinn Pdf

"The series of books entitled "The machine gun" was begun with the belief that the next best thing to actual knowledge is knowing where to find it. The research summarized within the covers of these volumes has been compiled by the Bureau of Ordinance, Department of the Navy, in order to place in the hands of those rightfully interested in the art of automatic weapon design, the world's recorded progress in this field of endeavor."--Vol. II, p. v.

Author : George Morgan Chinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Machine guns
ISBN : MINN:31951P00315778Y

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The Machine Gun by George Morgan Chinn Pdf

Author : Army War College
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122875946

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Machine Gun Notes by Army War College Pdf

Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Machine gun drill and tactics
ISBN : UOM:39015022208238

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Provisional Machine-gun Firing Manual by United States. War Department Pdf

This Provisional Machine Gun Firing Manual contains the following sections: General Scheme, Individual Instruction, Combat Firing, The Theory of Fire, Targets and Ranges, Miscellaneous, and Courses for Organizations Not in Regular Service. The following topics are discussed: use, care, and repair of machine guns; mechanics of the gun; physical training; sighting, positioning, and aiming drills; use of field glasses, range finders, mil scale, sights, prismatic compass, clinometer and hand level; determination of ranges on the ground by eye, from a map, from troops already engaged, measured directly on the ground, by sound, by range finder, and through range estimators; recognition and designation of service targets; known distance practice; record practice; determination of sight setting; instruction field firing; indirect fire; overhead fire; night firing; individual qualification tests; firing problems; drill exercises; the conduct of field-firing exercises; the critique of field-firing exercises; combat practice record; ballistic qualities of machine guns; rates and volumes and their relation to effectiveness; adjustment of fire; target for obtaining sight setting of machine guns, known distance targets, and field targets; class A range, machine gun range, class B range, and range regulations; classification, insignia, and extra compensation; and syllabus of combat training.

Author : Kevin Dockery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849088459

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The M60 Machine Gun by Kevin Dockery Pdf

The US M60 General Purpose Machine Gun, known as “the Pig,” was developed in the years after World War II from two revolutionary German designs. Adopted in 1957, the M60 came into its own in the jungles, hamlets, and city streets of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. “Humping the Pig” became common in US military squads, with at least one soldier equipped with an M60 and every squad member carrying ammunition for it. The M60 design transformed infantry tactics as squads took advantage of the immediate volume of fire offered by the design. Although it has now been replaced by the M240 series of weapons in US infantry and mechanized units, the M60 is still in common use with the US armed forces. Meanwhile, its iconic status has been assured by its frequent appearance in many popular films and television shows, from Full Metal Jacket to The A Team. Featuring specially commissioned full-color artwork, this is the full story of the M60, the innovative squad base-of-fire weapon that has equipped the US military from the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq.