Aqizithiuda wrote:Imperializt Russia wrote:This webpage is amazing.
One of the first true weapons that we might today call a light machine gun (in the sense of a weapon carried and fired by one man and firing the general cartridge), the Parabellum Machine Gun. Designed at about the same time as the original Lewis gun, in 1911.
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Belt-fed, 7.92mm Mauser. Essentially a lightened Maxim gun, it weighed all of ten kilograms, unloaded.
Six pounds lighter than the Lewis and two pounds lighter than the Vickers-Berthier and just two pounds heavier than the Degtyaryov.
And people say history is boring, they're looking in the wrong place.
That page is old news.
You should check out the other volumes they've got (which are PDFs only). Lots and lots of interesting things there.
Still on ibiblio?