A century ago, the American Expeditionary Force entered heavy combat in France, and the Doughboys’ most-used heavy machine gun during the Great War was the French Hotchkiss Model of 1914.

The machine-gun was a game-changing weapon of mass destruction. But did this awesome threat actually save lives? When, in 1861, Dr Richard Gatling patented the Gatling gun – one of the first ...

Before the war, the Lewis Gun was the first machine gun ever fired from an airplane. In 1912, Capt. Charles Chandler of the U.S. Army fired an early version of the weapon from an airborne Wright ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The U.S. M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, British Bren Gun, Vickers-Berthier Light Machine Gun, and German FG42 and StG44 paved the way for the development of ...

An M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun can be seen as Ukrainian soldiers take part in military drills on February 20, 2023. Russian and Ukrainian troops are using antiquated weaponry, as both ...

Firing the Type 3 heavy machine gun. Adopted in 1914, the Type 3 proved successful in Japanese service, being the primary heavy machine gun in the Imperial Japanese army up to 1932.