The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited originally for the British Army. The machine gun typically required a six to eight-man team to operate: one fired one fed the ammunition the rest helped to carry the weapon its ammunition and spare parts.
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length (km)
0.9144
origin
United Kingdom
type
Medium machine gun
used in war
Korean War, The Troubles, Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chaco War, World War II, World War I, Congo Crisis, South African Border War
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