The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the …

2021年8月15日 · Though disdained by the U.S. Army, Lewis guns were purchased by the U.S. Navy for the Marine Corps. When the Marines went to France in 1917, they had their Lewis …

The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun.

2021年3月9日 · The Lewis Gun provided the mobility badly needed in the trenches during the First World War, and the infantry version was used on all fronts. An aircraft version was also …

2019年7月31日 · Throughout its career, it served as a fixed defensive weapon, an aerial machine gun and as a Light Machine Gun (LMG) at the infantry level. The Lewis Gun went on to serve …

2024年11月6日 · THE Lewis machine gun, known for its distinctive barrel shroud, top-mounted drum magazine, and reliable performance, is one of the most recognizable weapons of the …

2016年10月20日 · The Lewis gun help change machine gun tactics during the First World War. The gun weighed 28 pounds, compared to almost 100 pounds for a British Vickers Gun with its …

2012年10月5日 · The Lewis Gun was the child of a world torn apart by warfare. What do you know about the first machine gun ever to be fired from an aircraft?

2020年12月30日 · It was the Lewis Gun, an all-but-forgotten weapon today that was ubiquitous on the battlefields of The Great War because it could be carried, mounted on vehicles and even …

Designed in the United States in 1911 by U.S. Army Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis (and based upon an earlier overly-complex design by Samuel McLean), the Lewis gun comprised an early …