Firearms History, Technology & Development

A few posts ago, when we studied heavy machine guns , it was mentioned that one of the features of some of these machine guns is a jacket fi...

In our last couple of posts, we looked at medium machine guns . In today's post, we will look at some developments in the General Purpos...

In our last post, we looked at the early beginnings of medium machine guns . We will continue to study this class of machine gun in this pos...

In our last few posts, we looked at light machine guns and heavy machine guns . Briefly, a light machine gun fires intermediate-sized ammun...

In our last couple of posts about heavy machine guns , we saw that they were weapons designed to fire rifle cartridges for long periods of t...

In our last post, we looked at the early developments in heavy machine guns and the work done by Hiram Maxim. We will continue our studies ...

In our last post, we looked at light machine guns . In today's post, we will look at another class of machine guns, the Heavy Machine Gu...

In our discussion about general features of machine guns , we discussed different classes of machine guns. Today, we will study the first of...

In our last post, we looked at some basics about machine guns . In today's post, we will study some early developments in machine gun hi...

In our last few posts, we studied different feed systems such as ammunition belts , chain feeds and feed strips . All these mechanisms are ...

In our previous post, we studied the basics of recoil operated actions . In this particular post, we will study one of the types of recoil o...