The Bren gun was a series of light machine guns (LMG) made by Britain in the 1930s and used in various roles until 1992. While best known for its role...
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Bren light machine gun when loaded with the top-mounted box magazine. The Type 73 is based on a 1960s-era Soviet design, most likely the PK machine gun...
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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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new light machine gun capable of firing the same ammunition, the Type 99 light machine gun. Due to their visual resemblance to the British Bren light machine...
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Universal Carrier (redirect from Bren Gun Carrier)
Carrier, a development of the earlier Bren Gun Carrier from its light machine gun armament, was one of a family of light armoured tracked vehicles built by...
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magazine fed, it had a rate of fire similar to other light machine guns, like the Bren light machine gun, but low when compared to its main wartime rivals...
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light machine gun, adopted in 1932 by the Indian Army. The VB, like the Bren light machine gun, used a locking tilting breechblock. Unlike the Bren,...
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Vickers–Berthier (redirect from Vickers light machine gun)
tipping bolt mechanism similar to the Bren light machine gun, was air-cooled like the Bren and also like the Bren had a removable barrel. It was adopted...
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ZB vz. 26 (category Light machine guns)
influenced many other light machine gun designs including the British Bren light machine gun and the Japanese Type 97 heavy tank machine gun. The ZB-26 is famous...
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was used by communist forces during the Korean War. Bren light machine gun Type 96 light machine gun Bishop, The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II...
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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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"Madsen-Saetter machine gun (Denmark)" Modern Firearms "Singapore Airshow 2024: ST Engineering debuts Ultimax 100 Mk 9 light machine gun". 19 February 2024...
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d'armes de Châtellerault, is a 7.5×54mm French light machine gun, which was the standard issue machine gun of the French Army from 1925 until the 1960s...
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The Madsen is a light machine gun that Julius A. Rasmussen and Theodor Schouboe designed and proposed for adoption by Colonel Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen...
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The Type 99 light machine gun (九九式軽機関銃, Kyūkyū-shiki Kei-kikanjū) was a light machine gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. It was similar...
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a light machine gun with a bipod intended to replace the Bren gun, and a heavier tripod mounted version to replace the Vickers medium machine gun, or...
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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 hand...
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fire accurately in automatic. Bren gun – another ZB design taken up by the UK Notes "TK" from těžký kulomet "heavy machine gun"; "vz" from vzor "Model" Citations...
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middle, a crewman manning a small multi-sided turret mounting a Bren light machine gun on the right, and another with a Boys anti-tank rifle (mounted in...
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Veronica Foster (redirect from Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl)
World War. Foster worked for John Inglis Company Ltd. producing Bren light machine guns on a production line on Strachan Avenue in Toronto, Ontario. While...
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light machine gun. It is a rare and little-known weapon with scant information available on it. It is best known for its resemblance to the Lewis Gun...
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War, light machine guns became more readily portable; designs such as the Bren light machine gun replaced bulky predecessors like the Lewis gun in the...
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(15–40 lb or 6.8–18.1 kg). Medium machine guns are light enough to be infantry-portable (as opposed to a heavy machine gun, which completely relies on mounting...
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submachine gun Sten Sterling submachine gun M50 Reising Owen gun Madsen M-50 M3 submachine gun Bren light machine gun Lewis gun Vickers machine gun Mills bombs...
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machine gun – Not declared obsolete until 1968. Bren light machine gun – L4 variant in service throughout the Cold War. FN MAG – Main British machine...
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India during the Second World War. It was typically armed with a Bren light machine gun. Those produced by Tata Locomotives were called "Tatanagars" after...
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armament consisted of a hull-mounted Boys anti-tank rifle and a Bren light machine gun in a small open-topped turret. A smoke discharger is mounted alongside...
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Organization of Canadian Army rifle sections during World War II (section Light Machine Gun element)
two-man Bren light machine gun team (one man firing, the other loading). The Bren team was responsible for the operation of the Light Machine Gun (LMG)...
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MG 42 (redirect from M53 machine gun)
for the MG 34, and 450 to 600 for other common machine guns like the M1919 Browning, FM 24/29, or Bren gun. This made it extremely effective in providing...
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7–9 mm on the sides. Armament was a Boys anti-tank rifle and a Bren light machine gun. Only a limited number were built before the Mk I was replaced by...
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