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Lewis gun
Description
A light machine gun with a top-mounted pan magazine and a large cooling shroud. It was common in the trenches and on early combat aircraft.
Historical use
- First World War
- Early military aviation
Technical data
- Year
- 1913
- Service
- 1913–1953
- Country
- United States
- Maker
- BSA y Savage Arms
- Designer
- Isaac Newton Lewis
- Type
- Machine gun
- Mechanism
- Automatic
- Calibre
- .303 British
- Weight
- 12.7 kg
- Length
- 1,283 mm
- Rate of fire
- 550 rds/min
- Capacity
- 47 rounds
Source: Wikidata Q373396
