Comments by "Marvin De Bot" (@marvindebot3264) on "Vickers Heavy Machine Gun" video.

  1.  @laxityazathoth1423  Negative, it happened mate. Some sources: ARRSEpedia (the British military open encyclopedia) - https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Vickers And Popular Mechanics - https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a18971/forgotten-weapons-the-vickers-gun-is-one-of-the-best-firearms-ever-made/ Plenty more out there.
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  2.  @quistan2  https://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Vickers
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  3. Five Million Rounds . . .
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  4. Actually a few were still in use much later than '64 at least in Australia. They were they only gun that was trusted to fire live rounds over the heads of troops in assault course training (the barbed wire crawl) right up until that practice stopped with the end of the Vietnam war.
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