The 'Clumsy' British Machine Gun That Fired For Seven Days Straight Without A Single Stoppage скачать в хорошем качестве

The 'Clumsy' British Machine Gun That Fired For Seven Days Straight Without A Single Stoppage

The Vickers machine gun fired five million rounds in seven days without stopping. When they measured it afterwards, nothing had moved. Not one part. Twenty eight pounds of water-cooled steel that the British Army called clumsy, outdated, and obsolete. It then served for 56 consecutive years, fought in two world wars, armed over 50 nations, and earned a reputation for reliability that no other firearm in history has matched. When the British Army finally retired it in 1968, they gave it a full military funeral at Bisley. Soldiers cried. This is the complete story of the Vickers .303 heavy machine gun. From Hiram Maxim's original 1884 design in Hatton Garden, London, through the Vickers redesign that cut the weight by thirty percent, to the water-cooling system that let it fire indefinitely. We break down the legendary High Wood barrage at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, including what the war diaries actually say versus the myth repeated for a century. We cover the Machine Gun Corps and its devastating casualty rate that earned it the nickname "The Suicide Club." We follow the Vickers from the first Victoria Crosses at Mons in 1914, through Dunkirk, D-Day, Normandy, Burma, and Korea, and compare it head-to-head against the German MG 42, the American Browning M1917, and the Bren light machine gun. Subscribe to BritishWarArmory for daily deep dives into British weapons, tanks, vehicles, and aircraft from World War 1 and World War 2. Sources and further reading: — Goldsmith, D. The Grand Old Lady of No Man's Land (1994), Chapter 7 — Willis, R. & Fisher, R. "The 100th Machine Gun Company at High Wood" British Journal for Military History (2019) — Coppard, G. With a Machine Gun to Cambrai (1969) — Hogg, I.V. Weapons of the British Soldier (1999) — Vickers MG Collection & Research Association (vickersmg.blog) — Tank Encyclopedia: Vickers Machine Gun — National Army Museum: Weapons of the Western Front — Imperial War Museum: Machine Gun Corps records — Wikipedia: Vickers machine gun, Machine Gun Corps, Battle of Mons, High Wood #WW1 #MilitaryHistory #BritishArmy #BritishWarArmory #VickersMachineGun #WW1Weapons #WW2 #MachineGun #BritishWeapons #Somme #MachineGunCorps #Mons #VickersGun #TrenchWarfare #WesternFront #MilitaryHistory #WW1History