Comments by "51WCDodge" (@51WCDodge) on "Machine Gun Terminology - LMG, MMG, SAW, LSW, HMG, GPMG" video.

  1. It answered the question-How can we throw a lot of lead at the opposition as quickly as possible with what we've got. Surley that comes under the heading of Improvised or Craft built? :-~)
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  2. And everyone was trying to get hold of Lewis guns!
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  3. If you consider the definition that a 'Automatic Machine gun, provides multiple discharge for a single pull of the trigger with no external power source,- Through a SINGLE barrel. Then Gatling does not count , it is several individual weapons fired very quickly one after another.
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  4. Light for a given value of light. To quote the original manual Lewis Gunners must be of well built stature, intelligent, and calm, determined demenour'.
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  5. The BREN had a very effective, if heavy, tripod mount for sustained fire role , that also transformed into an anti aircraft mount. The Vickers K gun, originally designed as a drum mag fed aircraft gun, adapted as both a light and vehicle mount, famously by the SAS on jeeps.
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  6. There was a drum conversion for AA use.
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