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    The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States...
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    machine gun, with the Chauchat and Lewis gun soon following) saw their first major use in World War I, along with heavy use of large-caliber machine guns. The...
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  • Scotland Lewis Bridge (disambiguation) Lewis chessmen, medieval chess pieces discovered on the Isle of Lewis Lewis County (disambiguation) Lewis gun, a machine...
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    Isaac Newton Lewis (October 12, 1858 – November 9, 1931) was a United States Army officer and the inventor of the Lewis gun. Lewis was born in New Salem...
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    When the Lewis Gun was adopted as a light machine gun and issued to infantry units, the Vickers guns were redefined as heavy machine guns, withdrawn...
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    L.A. Guns are an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1983. The lineup currently consists of Tracii Guns (lead guitar), Phil Lewis (lead...
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  • rifle) Pattern 1914 Enfield (Used as sniper rifle) Lewis gun Bren light machine gun Vickers machine gun No.36M Mk.I grenade No.69 Mk.I grenade (Concussion...
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    Philip Charlton in 1941 to act as a substitute for the Bren and Lewis gun light machine guns which were in severely short supply at the time. The original...
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    Vickers F.B.5 (redirect from Gun Bus)
    biplane of the First World War. Armed with a single .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis gun operated by the observer in the front of the nacelle, it was the first...
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    M1909 machine gun, the Beardmore–Farquhar rifle, and the Lewis itself. Although the BAR was recommended, the sheer number of Lewis guns available and...
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    replace the Lewis gun on board Motor Torpedo Boats, Motor Launches and other light craft, from 1942. MG 81 machine gun ShKAS machine gun Weeks, John,...
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    rifle caliber ammunition such as 8mm Mauser or .30-06 Springfield. The Lewis gun, which weighed 27 lb (12.3 kg), was commonly used with a 47-round drum...
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    The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim. It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world. The...
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    pilot sitting above and behind. The observer was armed with a .303 in Lewis machine gun firing forward on a specially designed, "witches broomstick" mounting...
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    16 minutes 30 seconds Armament Guns: 2 × 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine guns; up to 2 × 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis guns Bombs: Up to four 25 lb bombs....
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  • and Lewis were finally able to snare drug kingpin Luther Mahoney for drug trafficking and murder, Lewis beat up Mahoney until he grabbed Lewis' gun. However...
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    A heavy machine gun (HMG) is significantly larger than light, medium or general-purpose machine guns. HMGs are typically too heavy to be man-portable (carried...
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    FG 42 (redirect from Airplane Gun)
    copied from the Lewis gun) and sheet metal and plastic construction were copied by the US Army when they developed the M60 machine gun. At the time of...
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    the starboard gun could fire straight ahead. The Female had five Lewis guns but no 6-pounders. The decision to standardise on the Lewis gun was due to the...
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    A light machine gun (LMG) is a light-weight machine gun designed to be operated by a single infantryman, with or without an assistant, as an infantry...
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    Degtyaryov machine gun (Russian: Пулемёт Дегтярёвa Пехотный, romanized: Pulemyot Degtyaryova Pekhotny literally: "Degtyaryov's infantry machine gun") or DP-27/DP-28...
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  • M1910 Machine guns Colt–Browning M1895/14 Browning M1917 Hotchkiss Mk I Lewis Mk I Madsen machine gun Maxim M1884 Vickers machine gun Grenades No.1 grenade...
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    powered nose turret, mounting a Lewis gun. Rotation was handled by pneumatic motors while elevation and depression of the gun used hydraulic rams. The pilot's...
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    Patrick; Fleming, Mike Jr. (August 22, 2016). "Jon Hamm, Ed Harris & Lewis Pullman Join Top Gun: Maverick Team". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original...
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  • types Browning M1919 Vickers VGO Lewis gun/Type 92 machine gun Type 1/Type 98 machine gun (MG 15) Type 89 machine gun List of firearms List of uncommon...
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    2 machine guns or Type 99 cannon. Essentially a copy of the shroudless post-World War I aircraft-mounted version of the British Lewis gun, the Type 92...
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    more or less the standard way of mounting a Lewis gun in this position in the R.F.C.: this allowed the gun to slide backward for drum changing, and also...
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    Automatic rifle (category Light machine guns)
    the "Automatic Rifle, Model 1915 (Chauchat)". The Lewis Gun was invented in 1911 by Isaac Newton Lewis and first mass-produced in Belgium in 1913 for the...
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    used on the Lewis gun, Vickers K, Bren gun (only used in anti-aircraft mountings), Degtyaryov light machine gun, and American-180 submachine gun. A highly...
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    Vickers machine gun mounted on the port side of the cockpit. The observer sat behind the pilot, and was armed with a single Lewis gun on a ring mount...
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