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Vickers machine gun
Description
A water-cooled British machine gun derived from the Maxim and famed for its reliability. It served for over fifty years.
Historical use
- First World War
- Second World War
Technical data
- Year
- 1912
- Service
- 1912–1968
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Maker
- Vickers
- Type
- Machine gun
- Mechanism
- Automatic
- Calibre
- .303 British
- Weight
- 15 kg
- Length
- 1,120 mm
- Barrel
- 720 mm
- Rate of fire
- 500 rds/min
Source: Wikidata Q754800
