WWI British Vickers Machine Gun

The latest addition to the WWI collection. This one is British made by Vickers & Sons in 1918, and is not Austrailian made like most you will see. High humidity kept fogging the lens up, sorry.

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[james257wby]

Question, was 450 rpm the maximum rate of fire or could it be increased, were later models faster ?

[C2builder]

@james257wby The only ones I know of that were increased in rate of fire were the ones mounted in aircraft, usually between 600-800 rds per minute.

[paulemann1999]

this gun also used in WW2 or not ? but its hat a very slow shooting round the germans have better guns (im dont a nazi)

[C2builder]

@paulemann1999 Yes, the British used the Vickers (and also the Lewis Gun) throughout WW2.

[C2builder]

@AggroBorkenTV Yes.

[C2builder]

@TheSouthernGentleman Yes and they did for certain areas of combat.

[winchuni22]

@paulemann1999

For rate of fire it is slow. But it's how long it can continue shooting for which is also important. It had the record for continuous fire for a considerbale time - more than the German made machine guns.

[Yrahcaz75]

@F4Wildcat hes talking about an MG42

[crpdst2003]

@radio53 prolly inventor of nordenfelt screw too....interrupted screw to close the breech end with one third turn.....

[F4Wildcat]

@paulemann1999 And why do the germans have better guns? THey dint had light MG's like the brits in WW1, the lee enfield was better then the mauser G98 in almost every way...

And the MG08 and vickers are simular very good guns with the same ROF.

[CF4LIf3]

@harry66285 Imagine how the Allies felt about the MG42.

[harry66285]

cant imagine being a german charging an english trench with that going