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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

2021年3月5日 · Heavy water. May be more convenient, already have coolant around for nuclear engines, put some in the gun. The only reason we stopped using water cooling machine guns …

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 …

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 …