Liberators Units: M1917 Machine Gun

Liberators, developed and published by MutantBox, features real-life historic equipment in the Second World War. With a firing rate of 450 to 600 round per minute, the M1917 machine gun was a game-changer in the Second World War. Weight and volume meant it was used primarily as a defense or as a fixed support weapon battalion. piercing ammunition this weapon gave a decisive advantage over its predecessors.
Give it a shot on the battlefield as their first line of defense against infantry units.

The machine gun Browning M1917 is a heavy machine gun used by the armed forces of the United States in World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam in a limited degree; It has also been used by other nations. He was a crew served, belt-fed, water-cooled served alongside the much lighter air-cooled Browning M1919 machine gun. It was used at the battalion level, and often mounted on vehicles (eg a jeep). There were two main iterations of it: the M1917, which was used in World War II; and M1917A1; which it was used thereafter. The M1917, which was used in some aircraft and land on paper, had a firing rate of 450 rounds per minute; The M1917A1 had a firing rate of 450 to 600 rounds per minute.

In 1900, John Moses Browning filed a patent for an automatic weapon recoil engine. Browning did not work in the gun again until 1910, when a water-cooled design prototype 1900 was built Despite the gun worked well, Browning improved the design slightly. Browning substituted lower side ejection ejection, added a buffer for smoother operation, replaced the hammer with a hammer two-piece and some other minor improvements. The basic design of the gun was still designing 1900.

Browning is a water-cooled heavy machine gun, although some experimental versions were made that did not use a water jacket; air-cooled M1919 was subsequently developed as a medium machine gun. Unlike many other early machine guns, the M1917 had nothing to do with the design of the lock lever Maxim. At 47 pounds (21 kg) [clarification needed], which was much lighter than modern weapons of Maxim type as the first 137 lbs (62 kg) German Maschinengewehr 08 (08/15 model: 43 lb (20 kg)) and the British Vickers machine gun, while remaining highly reliable. The only similarities with Maxim or Vickers are the operating principle recoil, the breech block T-slot, "pull-out" feed belt, water cooled, and before ejection. Its locking mechanism keeps sliding-block weight and complexity, and was used in many previous designs Browning. The Belt Fed left to right, and the cartridges are stacked closer together than Maxim / Vickers (patterns copied by most of the weapons later.)

The Department of the Army Ordnance showed little interest in the guns until the war broke out in April 1917. At that time, the US arsenal It included only 1,100 machine guns, and most of those who were out of fashion. The government asked several designers to present arms. Browning organized a test at the Springfield Armory in May 1917. In the first test, the weapon fired 20,000 rounds without incident. Reliability was exceptional, so Browning fired another 20,000 rounds per gun, no piece fails. Ordnance Board was impressed but was not convinced that the same level of performance could be achieved in a production model. Accordingly, a second weapon Browning used not only doubles the original trial, but also continuously fired for 48 minutes and 12 seconds (over 21,000 rounds). 

The Army adopted the weapon as its principal heavy machine gun, using the flat M1906 30-06 cartridge with a 150-grain bullet base. Unfortunately, production was a problem. Several manufacturers started producing the gun, but had to establish production lines and tooling. The June 30, 1918, Westinghouse had only 2,500 and Remington had only 1,600. At the time of the Armistice, Westinghouse had 30,150, 12,000 Remington and Colt 600. 

Until the beginning of World War I, the Army had used a variety of larger MGs, as the M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun "Potato" (which Browning had also designed) and weapons like the Maxim Gun, the M1909 Benet- Mercié and Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun. Though the 1917 model was destined to be the director of the US Army heavy machine gun in the war, the army was in fact forced to buy many foreign weapons - machine gun-produced French Hotchkiss 8mm was actually the largest heavy machine gun used by the American Expeditionary Force.

In 1926, the rear view of the Browning was revised to incorporate the scales for both the new M1 ball (172-grain bullet boat-tail) and M1906 (-base flat Bullet 150 grain) ammunition. M1 ball, the M1917 had a maximum range of about 5,500 km (5,000 m); M2 ammunition, about 3,500 yards (3,200 m). [9] The rear sight had a view of the battle as well as a blade type suitable for use raised view either against ground or air targets. 

The M1917 saw limited service in the last days of World War I. Because of production delays, only about 1,200 models 1917s saw combat in the conflict, and only in the last two months and a half of war. Some were too late for combat service. For example, the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, fighting as part of the second division not exchange their guns Hotchkiss M1914 to M1917 Browning machine guns until Nov. 14, three days after the armistice. The United States equipped about a third of the divisions sent to France; the others were also equipped with machine guns bought for the British Vickers machine guns built by Colt in the US French or. Where did the Model 1917 see action, its rate of fire and reliability were very effective. [Citation needed] The M1917 weapon system was lower than the Vickers and Hotchkiss guns because cartridges England and France had range of about 50 percent longer than the 30 -06 cartridge service used in World War II 

The Model 1917A1 was used again in the Second World War, and is used primarily with the ball M2, tracer and armor-piercing ammunition introduced just before the start of hostilities. Some were supplied to the UK for use by the Guard and the entire production of 0.303 Vickers was needed to replenish the abandoned during the fall of France team. weight and volume of the M1917 meant it was generally used as a defense or as a fixed battalion or regiment support weapon. In the fierce battle Momote runway in Admiralties, machinegunners 5th Cavalry US Army killed several hundred Japanese in one night using their Browning M1917; a gun was left in place after the battle as a monument to the desperate struggle.

The Model 1917 was called to service again in the Korean War. On at least one occasion, US troops in the Korean War urinated in the gun when the water cooling failed in the cold Korean winter temperatures. The Model 1917 was eliminated slowly out of military service in the late 1960s in favor of the M60 machine gun cameras much lighter in the new cartridge 7.62mm NATO.

The attributes of the Model 1917 (and similar weapons, such as the Vickers machine gun) -Evaluation continuous fire from a static position-had been rendered useless by the transition to highly mobile war. Many of the 1917s were given to South Vietnam. The last regular service of the United States was during infiltration machine gun in Fort Benning, Georgia, where his sustained ability of the fire was an advantage in long nights to shoot over the heads of students under trace. Gun continue to see service in some armies of the Third World and in the second half of the 20th century Some are still in use today by irregular military forces because its water-cooled barrel allows long periods of sustained fire.

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