Machines | Machine Guns - WW1 Uncut: Dan Snow
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww1 Dan takes a deep breath as he prepares to have an extremely close encounter with some of the deadliest weapons of the war in an attempt to understand how they were able to wreak such havoc.
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they pick some odd songs for ww1
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Surprised they didn't get a hotchkiss
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Their audio editor is horrible
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jajaja you cant fire murder weapons freely in England but here in Yokel county, Texshit we can kill people for fun jajaja. What a bunch of idiots Americans are.
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don't they melt the spent shells down or what?
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Why did you not pick up the Lewis Gun and fire it standing from your hip? She's a lightweight machine-gun designed for mobile assaults (or carried in aircraft) and the Lewis gunners were trained to run up and spray enemy trenches, fortifications and positions with her when they got close enough. She still weighs a bit, 28 pounds (13 kg), but nearly half the weight of the Vickers Gun at 51 lbs. (23 kg) and the hefty German MG-08 weighed 152.1 lbs. (69 kg) or 5.4 times the weight of the air-cooled Lewis.
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5:21 most mobile? what about the mp 18?
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The Lewis gun is not an assault weapon its a support weapon.
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Once my friend said in WW1 that the Germans had a teenage girl operating a machine gun
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5:21 the Bergmann MP 18 and NOT the Lewis Gun was surely the most mobile Machine Gun of WW1 and yes I know its a MachinenPistole but it is still technically classed as a Sub-Machine Gun and was the primary weapon of the Stoßtruppen or "Stormtroopers" who used it for assaulting Trenches.
The SoShat ,Oooops I mean shauchat and the Madsen light machine gun were also mobile BUT much more cumbersome and less reliable than the Lewis Gun and ALL were much heavier and less Mobile than the Bergmann MP 18 -
Oh God, the editing on this series...
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haha here in America if you have the proper licensing to own one you can shoot a machine gun at any firing range nearby. European gun laws are odd.
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Lol in America you can have one of those in your back yard and under your bed
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I prefer the Mg'08 then the Vikers.
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"The first machine gun made to be mobile" Another english propaganda peice, they didin't even mention the madsen or shauchat...
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18th, 19th century military tactics met 20th century technology, and the result was a great deal of dead men.
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in the comparison between rifles he says that the rate of fire was so much more important than other things like accuracy an now it isn`t? It is a machine gun for gods sake, in which the rate of fire is the most important thing....
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Song in the beginning?