The Invention That Changed Warfare Forever: Birth of the Machine Gun 💥 [invention of machine gun, machine gun history, first machine gun, gatling gun invention, hiram maxim machine gun, automatic weapons history, 19th century inventions, war technology evolution, weapons history, industrial age warfare, military inventions, historical weapons, world history facts, viral history post, educational history] | History Through AI

A 1960 Army instructional film on the use of the .30 Browning machine gun from tanks and armoured fighting vehicles. Find the full film in our film collections: https://bit.ly/4fiEsJ7 Film: IWM (DRA 1133) | Imperial War Museum London

Now hear this! John Browning had been working on machine gun designs since offering an initial design to Colt Patented Firearms in 1892. With the entry of the U.S. into WWI, Browning offered up his water cooled .30-06 machine gun. The Army accepted it and designated it the Browning Machine Gun, US Caliber .30, Model of 1917 in May 1917. Based on lessons learned in WWI, the BAR was kept as a squad and platoon level automatic weapon, but the Army wanted another weapon that was less cumbersome than

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