Few weapons have defined the tempo of modern warfare quite like the machine gun. It isn’t a new concept by any means, with the notion of rapid fire volleys being something dating back to the Age of ...
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Tracing over a century of battlefield innovation, the British Army infantry section transformed from World War I bolt-action rifle squads to today’s highly organized fire teams equipped with precision ...
World War II accelerated the shift from bolt-action rifles to semi-automatic and automatic weapons that redefined infantry tactics. Mass production innovations like metal stamping enabled nations to ...
During the late 1970s, international embargoes and an ongoing conflict forced South Africa to develop its own general-purpose machine gun from scratch. We explore how an initially troubled design ...
FN UK completed M2HB QCB MK2 .50 BMG heavy machine guns and MAG 7.62×51mm general purpose machine guns. (Janes/Sean Reardon) FN UK, a subsidiary of FN Browning Group, told Janes in December of its ...
Germany produced some of the finest and most innovative small arms of the Second World War—from the MG-34 general purpose machine gun to the StG44, the world’s first assault rifle.