Model 1890 Colt Gatling gun on typical infantry wheeled field carriage. (Courtesy Rock Island Auction Company) State-of-the-Art Weaponary Machine guns ...

Sterling silver U.S. doughboy dog tag holder and locket. The outside of the holder is engraved “2nd Lieut. H.W. Billman ...

ABOVE: British Machine Gun Corps shoulder patches as adopted for the 101st Machine Gun Company. This rare and unique patch ...

ABOVE: Right side view of the Type 11 LMG In preparing research for this article it was found that there ...

World War I A.I.F (Australian Imperial Forces) aluminum dog tag. Engraved “92 T. Maxwell, 10 M.G. Coy RC” (Tag #92, ...

TOP: German interwar period paperweight or desk ornament. 6-inch long silver German Maxim MG08 with Z.F. 12 optical sight mounted ...

Col. Lewis was a United States Military Academy (West Point) graduate (1884) and spent twenty-five years in the United States ...

Sweden was not shy in their attempt to modernize their army at the turn of the twentieth century by equipping ...

Machine guns today are generally defined as firearms that shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a ...

Collectors and historians are familiar with the Russian “Tractor Cap” or “Snow Cap” Maxim machine gun. It was a modification ...

The Japanese had a unique system of naming and numbering their weapons using two basic methods.  One method referred to ...

Captain Herbert W. McBride of the 21st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, wrote in his excellent book A Rifleman Went to ...

Italy was the first country in the world to officially adopt the Maxim machine gun after the La Spezia trial ...

Much has been written about the sad state of affairs concerning the history of early machine gun development and acceptance ...

“Utterly useless!”  So wrote a frustrated U.S. Army Captain in a letter to the Chief of Ordnance of the United ...

Hiram Maxim was born in the United States in 1840.  His genius lay in his ability to grasp the complexities ...

The Mitrailleuse Saint Etienne Mle 1907 is one of those rare classic machine guns that was a complex mechanical nightmare ...

In the beautiful countryside of northern England just a few miles from York, is the Yorkshire Air Museum.  Based on ...

The Tri-Service Asian Defense and Internal Security Event for Land, Sea and Air and Security Exhibition was held at the ...

Andreas Wilhelm Schwarzlose of Charlottenburg, Germany was a well known and respected inventor and arms designer working out of the ...

Many of us remember the finale in the 1965 movie Thunderball when James Bond and his allies battle Emilio Largo, ...

The Hotchkiss Model 1914 was the standard French Army heavy machine gun during World War I.  It was also the ...

While the insignia of US Infantry is crossed rifles, its spirit is the spirit of the bayonet.  Every American infantryman, ...

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders are an infantry regiment of the British Army with a rich history.  It is one ...

Located in the heart of Warsaw, Poland, the Museum of the Polish Army holds some 300,000 historical treasures dating from ...

Not long after John Browning invented the world’s first gas operated fully automatic machine gun, the Model 1895 Automatic Gun, ...

Located in the center of Athens just several hundred yards from the Athens Hilton hotel is the Greek Ministry of ...

History 2004 marked the one hundredth anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Maxim Machine Gun, Caliber .30, Model of ...

Skarżysko-Kamienna is a relatively young city receiving its city charter in 1923, yet a settlement has existed in the Kamienna ...

Argentina was an early user of the Maxim and began by ordering 50 Maxims from the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and ...