This efficiency created a myth that Germany deployed far more machine guns than its opponents in 1914.įollowing the onset of positional warfare, machine guns gained notoriety as highly effective direct-fire weapons. German machine gunners exploited the weapon’s long-range accuracy, and the fact that the guns were a regimental (rather than battalion) asset allowed them to be grouped to achieve maximum effect. The German army had been a late convert to the potential of machine guns, but its tactical employment of them in 1914 proved superior to that of its enemies. Russia, Germany and Britain used guns based on the Maxim system, while France and Austria-Hungary used indigenous designs – the Model 1907 "St Etienne" and the Schwarzlose respectively. From the late 1880s, their military potential was hugely enhanced by the availability of small-calibre, smokeless cartridges.īy 1914, all the major combatants had furnished their armies with machine guns on similar scales of issue. His innovation prompted wider development of automatic firearms. By harnessing the energy released in firing a cartridge, Maxim produced a weapon capable of discharging multiple bullets by simply activating a trigger. Its development was initiated by American-born Hiram Maxim’s (1840-1916) invention of the first automatic firearm in 1883. My sincere thanks to HobbyTerra for the review sample and to IPMS/USA for allowing me to review it.The machine gun was a product of the "second industrial revolution". What also caught my eye, and what I already have on order, are several combinations of Lewis Guns and Scarff Ring Mounts - they really look amazing and are around $12 each. All that may be missing is a short (dozen-rounds) length of ammo belt for those aircraft that might not have a covered feed chute. So, highly recommended - if you have to have some really catchy additions to a WW1 bird, this gun has to rank high up there, particularly at the very low price. Instructions are minimal, consisting of a list of aircraft to be used on and a two-color paint guide in Russian - and of course y'all recognize the colors as wood and gun-metal, right ?. Obviously superior to the kit guns and obviously a lot less work than a half-dozen tiny PE parts. I don't have an appropriate WW1 aircraft in 1/72 to mount it on, but I do have the Airfix DH-4 waiting an Allan Hall style conversion to a DH-9, so I laid the Miniworld gun next to the kit gun and a sheet of TOM's WW1 British Guns photoetch. I tried to count the ribs and such on the barrel to see if they matched my references, but they are just too small - sure does look right. Well, as you can pretty well tell from the "box art" photo, it isn't a ground mount - and I still can't see it.īut, isn't it a beauty? Made from brass, it is so finely done - you can't get this same level in styrene, resin, white metal, or photoetch, even at larger scales. So, I was thinking "Neat, I'll get a ground mount Vickers to build, even if I probably can't see it real well.", although I should have connected the dots better given that all their other products were aircraft guns. It served from before the World War I until after the end of the World War II. The machine gun typically required a six- to eight-man team to operate: one to fire, one to feed the ammunition, and the rest to help carry the weapon, its ammunition and spare parts. 303 inch (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled. Website: When I saw this on the "Stuff Available List", I did a quick Google and came up with several online stores, HobbyTerra being one, where the item was described as: Reviewed By John Ratzenberger, IPMS# 40196 1/72 Vickers Mk.I Machine Gun For appropriate WW1 aircraft subjects
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