Browning .30-caliber Machine Guns

 Автор: Gordon L. Rottman
 Издательство: Osprey Publishing: 2014
 Серия: Osprey Weapon 32
 ISBN: 178096921X
 Формат: PDF: 9 Mb
 Страниц: 81
 Язык: English

First adopted in 1917, the rugged and reliable Browning .30-caliber machine gun remained in US service into the Vietnam era, and is still occasionally found in use elsewhere even today. Produced in both water-cooled and air-cooled versions, it has been employed in every imaginable role for a machine gun - antipersonnel, antiaircraft, mounted on aircraft as both defensive and offensive armament, defensive armament aboard vehicles (armored and soft-skin), mounted on watercraft, and others. Employing gripping first-hand testimony and featuring specially commissioned illustrations and detailed photographs, many in color, this lively study of the Browning .30-caliber machine gun reveals the origins, combat history and legacy of this versatile and dependable weapon.

• The Lewis Gun (Osprey Weapon 34)
• Browning .50 caliber Machine Guns
• The Browning Automatic Rifle
• The Bazooka
• US Infantry in the Indian Wars 1865-93 ( Men-at-Arms. 438)
• US Armed Forces in China 1856–1941 (Men at Arms 455)
• Armies of the Vietnam War (2) (Men at Arms. 143)
• US Cavalry on the Plains 1850–90 (Men at Arms 168)
• American Civil War Armies (1) (Men-at-Arms 170)
• American Civil War Armies (2) (Men-at-Arms 177)