2016年11月26日 · Water cooled heavy machine guns made sense at first because military thinking of the time held machine guns as weapons of defense, even during mobile warfare, thus it made sense that each gun would be accompanied by a team of three to four crew giving plenty of bodies to hump gun, tripod, ammo and water.

2018年1月4日 · The M1919 light machine gun was originally intended for use with tanks once the M1917 machine gun proved to be inappropriate due to weight and the vulnerability of its water jacket. The M1919A3 and later M1919A4 , modified specifically for infantry use, suffered from the original design parameters of fixed use and weighed roughly 32 pounds; the ...

2023年8月17日 · Second, modern machine guns are more thermodynamically efficient than guns from the water cooled era and can be fired much longer relying on air-cooling. Third, in the case of US machine guns (M2A1, M240, and M249) all have the ability to quickly swap barrels allowing for prolonged firing sessions without guns going down.

It's because the logistics of having one machine gun and many spare barrels, which can perform the duties of a static mg or a mobile mg, is easier than two separate machine guns for those roles. Also if a water cooled machine gun has a leak or runs out …

Adding the need to carry extra water for the gun is just taking up space that could be used to carry ammo, fuel, or other more critical supplies. 3 or 4 replacement barrels take up less space and weight than a bigass jug of water. If a water cooled gun runs out of water, the water jacket casing prevents air getting to the gun barrel to cool it ...

2014年3月8日 · Air cooled guns are much lighter. For instance, the M1917 weighs 103 lbs but its air cooled descendant the M1919 only weighs 31 lbs. That's a lot of weight the gun team doesn't have to carry, making them more mobile or letting them carry more ammunition. On the other hand, water cooled machine guns were far from dead in the 1940s.

Also to add, most water cooled machine guns of early 20th century were closed bolt operated, or some system similar, where a live round was chambered waiting for trigger to be pulled. For those types, and since weight wasn't really an issue when they were designed, water cooling was a very simple, cheap, reliable, effective means of cooling the ...

2020年6月13日 · Water-cooled machineguns as we saw in WW1 were intended for long periods of sustained fire from relatively static positions. The advantage of being able to fire nearly indefinitely allowed them to perform both direct fire - shooting directly at a target - and indirect fire - "lobbing" rounds in an arcing trajectory to create a beaten zone at ...

Following this excellent demonstration, the board of five Army officers and two civilians appointed by the Secretary of War to study the problem of machine gun supply recommended for immediate adoption the water-cooled Browning, pronouncing it and the previously accepted B.A.R. the 'most effective guns of their type known to the members.'"

2021年1月29日 · It probably was a water-cooled WWI-era machine gun. There's an unfinished assault rifle model in the game's files - apparently, instead of finishing it, they took the machine gun design they'd already created and gave it the assault rifle's stats.