![]() : 176 In the first test, the weapon fired 20,000 rounds with only a few malfunctions mostly related to poorly loaded cloth belts. Browning arranged a test at the Springfield Armory in May 1917. ![]() : 173–174 The government asked several designers to submit weapons. arsenal included only 1,100 machine guns, and most of those were outmoded. The Army Ordnance Department showed little interest in machine guns until war was declared in April 1917. The belt fed left-to-right, and the cartridges were stacked closer together than Maxim/Vickers (patterns copied by most guns later). Its sliding-block locking mechanism saved weight and complexity, and was used in many previous Browning designs. The only similarities with the Maxim or Vickers are the principles of recoil operation, T-slot breechblock, "pull-out" belt feed, water cooling, and forward ejection. At 47 pounds (21 kg), it was much lighter than contemporary Maxim type guns such as the first 137-pound (62 kg) German Maschinengewehr 08 (08/15 model: 43 lb (20 kg)) and the British Vickers machine gun, while still being highly reliable. Unlike many other early machine guns, the M1917 had nothing to do with Maxim's toggle lock design. The Browning is a water-cooled heavy machine gun, though some experimental versions were made that did not use a water jacket the air-cooled M1919 was later developed as a medium machine gun. Val Browning, the inventor's son, demonstrates the M1917. : 173 The basic design of the gun was still the 1900 design. Browning replaced side ejection with bottom ejection, added a buffer for smoother operation, replaced the hammer with a two piece firing pin, and some other minor improvements. ![]() Although the gun worked well, Browning improved the design slightly. Browning did not work on the gun again until 1910, when he built a water-cooled prototype of the 1900 design. In 1900, John Moses Browning filed a patent for a recoil-powered automatic gun. Browning test firing a Browning machine gun. The M1917A1 had a cyclic rate of 450 to 600 rounds per minute.ĭesign and development US Army 2nd Lt. The M1917, which was used on some aircraft as well as in a ground role, had a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute. There were two main iterations: the M1917, which was used in World War I and the M1917A1, which was used thereafter. It was used at the battalion level, and often mounted on vehicles (such as a jeep). It was a crew-served, belt-fed, water-cooled machine gun that served alongside the much lighter air-cooled Browning M1919. Load More.The M1917 Browning machine gun is a heavy machine gun used by the United States armed forces in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War it has also been used by other nations. If you can see my email address as the author of this review feel free to e-mail me if you can give any extra tips to me as I’ve never really done this and my knowledge is limited on specific methods to achieve what you did. My apologies for the lengthy read if ever this catches anyones eyes. will be coming in another day or two and I’ll be taking steps to achieve a realism from my replica similarly to your end result so this will be very helpful and it is much appreciated!. His has already been delivered and he’s already to the best possible way weathered and authenticated it to look as much the real thing as he could (believe the military stocks of the mp44 were not of wood, but the airsoft replicas all come as that). for the active use in it’s service lifespan and have recently purchased an airsoft replica B.A.R. As such I’ve always had a huge interest as well and have always really been drawn to the B.A.R. My grandfather was in ww2 as a bombardier aboard a b-24 liberator in northern africa and italy (if I’m remembering right) and my father wasn’t accepted into any military branch due to his poor eyesight caused by being born premature and I think because of that regret his fascination and interest to mainly all ww2 aircraft but otherwise ww2 as a whole historically. Another three years since any comments here.
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