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|type= [[General purpose machine gun]] ...eavy infantry '''Model 60-20''' machine gun, the '''Model 60-40''' coaxial machine gun for armoured fighting vehicles and the '''Model 60-30''' aircraft varia

...e Factory]] adapted the action to a [[light machinegun]], the [[Huot light machine gun|Huot]], using surplus rifles. These were cheaper than the [[Lewis gun]] ...eneral for Sun Yat-sen, acquired 500 Ross rifles (probably Mark I) for the Chinese in 1911, described as "weren't up to much, but good enough for training". H

...long gun]]s such as [[rifle]]s and [[shotgun]]s, mounted weapons such as [[machine gun]]s and [[autocannon]]s, and larger weapons such as [[artillery]]. ...[semi-automatic pistol]]s, and [[Automatic firearm|fully automatic]], or [[machine pistol]]s.

...lly adapted from the roller-locked recoil operating system of the [[MG42]] machine gun but with a fixed barrel and gas system. It was realized that with caref ... The '''AME 49''' under the name ''Carabine Mitrailleuse 1950'' (English: "machine carbine", German: ''Maschinenkarabiner'') was retained for production amon

|wars= [[World War II]], Korean War, First Indochina War, Chinese Civil War, Portuguese Colonial War, Algerian War, Vietnam War, Six Day War, ...heir tactical doctrine of basing a squad's firepower on the unit's [[light machine gun]] and possibly their problems of mass producing [[semi-automatic rifle]

== Submachine Guns == *'''[[Hanyang 88]]'''(widely used in the regional forces of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army, an inferior copy of the German Gewehr 98)

...wered [[rifle]] ammunition. Assault rifles are categorized between [[light machine gun]]s, intended more for sustained automatic fire in a support role, and [ ...er to manufacture alternative to the existing [[FN FAL]], although the two guns are not directly related. The CAL never met with any significant interest

This is an extensive list of [[small arms]] — [[pistol]], [[machine gun]], [[grenade launcher]], [[anti-tank rifle]] — that includes variants *[[Adams-Wilmont]] (UK - Aircraft Machine Gun - .303 British)

...t. By contrast, soldiers armed with rapid fire weapons (such as submachine guns) were much more likely to have fired their weapons in battle. These conclus ...as the German [[FG 42|FG42]] and [[M1941 Johnson machine gun|Johnson light machine gun]]; they located the barrel in line with the stock, well below eye level

...esigned a self-loading [[pistol]] in the 1880s, but was preoccupied with [[machine gun]]s. Nevertheless, the application of his principle of using bullet ener ... pistols, and simply used existing parts inventories to "arsenal refinish" guns when necessary. This pistol was favored by US military personnel.

...[M1917 Browning machine gun|M1917]]/[[M1919 Browning machine gun|M1919]] [[machine gun]]s. This left the Army without the lighter, handier rifle it had wanted ...]s and [[revolver]]s to be insufficiently accurate or powerful. Submachine guns such as the [[Thompson submachine gun|Thompson]] were more than sufficientl

...ohn Browning]]'s design has been one of the longest serving and successful machine gun designs]] ...machine gun. The original Maxim of the 1880s was the first fully automatic machine gun, as well as using a [[Belt (ammo)|belt of linked ammunition]] rather th

...ng mechanism is scaled down from that of a full-sized machine gun, while a machine pistol is built up from a semi-automatic pistol design. ...small, concealable weapon with a high rate of fire. In a military setting, machine pistols are issued as personal defense sidearms to paratroopers, artillery

|type= [[Machine pistol]] (M712 Schnellfeuer)<br>[[Semi-automatic pistol]] (all others) ...orld War I, [[World War II]], Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Civil War, Anglo-Irish War

...plosive shells appears in the early Ming Dynasty (1368&ndash;1644) [[China|Chinese]] military manual ''Huolongjing'', compiled by Jiao Yu (fl. 14th to early 1 ...zle velocity|muzzle velocities]] which required high [[trajectories]]; the guns were mortars or [[howitzers]].

...Hunting laws may differentiate between smooth barreled and rifled barreled guns. ...ly automatic shotgun a shotgun, even though legally it would fall into a [[Machine gun|different category]]. Amongst the general populace, any gun that fires

|name= Carbine, Machine, Sten ...or which I accept no responsibility." In:Laidler, Peter (2000). ''The Sten Machine Gun''. Ontario: Collector Grade Publications. pp. 363–364. ISBN 088935259

|wars= World War II, Korean War, First Indochina War, Vietnam War, Chinese Civil War ...ired by the trench warfare of World War I to develop a "one-man, hand-held machine gun", firing a [[rifle]] caliber round. While searching for a way to allow

|caption= The Chinese Type 81 assault rifle. |variants= Type 81-1, Type 81 light machine gun, Type-81S, Type 87, Type 87-1

The M1 Carbine was issued to infantry officers, machine gun, artillery and tank crews, paratroopers and other line-of-communication ...d the .30 Carbine cartridge incapable of penetrating small trees and other light cover.<ref>Dunlap, Roy F., ''Ordnance Went Up Front'', Samworth Press, 1948