Dec 20: Everything that shoots Is being used: employment of captured MGs The Captured Machine Gun ManualCaptured machine guns became so important to the German war effort that these weapons, where…
Dec 13: Forgotten machine-guns II: Louis Schmeisser and the Dreyse-MG Probably even before 1907, thus before the takeover by Rheinmetall, Louis Schmeisser moved as chief designer to the Dreyse-Werke in Sömmerda,…
Nov 29: Firing through the propeller disk area: Airborne-MGs 08 and 08/15Despite the technically well-engineered Parabellum machine gun, the use of machine guns positioned to fire over the propeller arc…
Dec 6: Forgotten machine-guns I: Bergmann old model and new model MGs Very early on in the procurement of machine guns, the German Army decided on the Maxim system and set…
Nov 15: Light machine-guns desperately needed: the machine-gun crisis of 1915 and the lMG 08/15It was Robert Watson-Watt, Winston Churchill’s scientific advisor, who said: “Give me the third best technology.…
Nov 8: The standard machine-gun of the German army: MG 08 In 1906-07, the formation of a machine gun company with “old type” equipment (meaning the MG 01 with Type 06…
This blog is written by Dr. Frank Buchholz Nov 1: The beginning with Sir Hiram Maxim’s guns: MG 99 and MG 01 In 1888 Hiram Maxim presented the latest product…
This blog was written by Dr. Frank Buchhholz. German Machine Guns – Development, Tactics and Use from 1892 to 1918 “The artillery shapes the battlefield—machine guns defend it!” This sentence…