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An early water cooled heavy machine gun. Similar to the Maxim type heavy machine guns used in world war one and for decades afterward. It would be cooled by water held in the cooling sleeve around the barrel.they were usually mounted on tripods,light wheeled carts and pedestal mounts in fixed positions or on warships. Te could lay down a steady stream of fire with a good deal of accuracy.Often these guns would be placed in reinforced positions flanked by infantry and protected by sandbags, barbed wire, and log structures. From these positions the machine gunners could control wide arcs and interlock their fire to rip into advancing forces firing across their ranks maximum effect.
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I'm pretty sure we had these in the early days of WW2 before we got the Browning M2 .50 cal machine guns.
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yep the original M1918 in .303 was water cooled. the M2 water cooled version was mainly used for Naval Mounts.
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Water cooled Machine guns were still in use well into world war two. even after more "modern" guns were available. They worked just fine, and could keep up sustained fire for a lot longer than air cooled designs...so since they had them, they used them.
The M2 itself was based on earlier .30 caliber and 30.06 designs. They just beefed it up a good deal and discarded the water jacket.
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Oh okay. Thanks for the info.
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