The Type 97 heavy tank machine gun (九七式車載重機関銃, Kyū-nana-shiki shasai jū-kikanjū) was the standard machine gun used in tanks and armored vehicles of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, and as a heavy machine gun by infantry forces. [1]

It was used extensively by the armed forces of United Kingdom during the Second World War as a mounted machine gun for tanks and other armoured vehicles as a replacement for the heavier, water-cooled Vickers machine gun. Although it required a rather large opening in the tank's armour, it was reliable.

The Maschinengewehr 18 Tank und Flieger or MG 18 TuF, is a German dual-purpose heavy machine gun that was designed to fill both anti-tank and anti-aircraft roles. Developed at the end of the First World War, it fired the same 13.25 × 92mm SR or tankpatrone 18 armor-piercing round later used by the Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr anti-tank rifle. [2]

M4 Sherman Tank Small Arms Page: The Machineguns and their mounts, used on the M4 series tanks and vehicles based on its chassis. T he US Army issued early Sherman tanks with a single Thompson M1928A1 .45 caliber submachine gun. The tank also had two boxes to hold a total of twelve hand grenades of various types.

2018年11月27日 · As the bow machine gun stands today, it is the weakest point of the tank. That is to say, the strongest part of the front glacis plate of the M.4 will withstand a striking velocity of 2400 f.s. from 3" A.P.C. M.62 ammunition.

2015年1月26日 · Weirdly, Japanese tanks tended to not have coaxial machine guns. The hull machine gun, and the often-mounted turret rear machine gun were the options.

2024年12月7日 · Multiple Gun Motor Carriage (MGMC) – 1,103 M13 and 1,605 M14 Built. The German invasions of Poland and France highlighted a critical need within the US military for a mobile ground anti-aircraft platform. This led to attempts to mount heavy machine guns on trucks and half-tracks, which were found to be inadequate.

2023年2月2日 · Introduced in 1934 (hence its name) and fielded in 1936, the MG 34 is generally considered the world’s first general-purpose machine gun. With its full-power rifle cartridge, the gun could be used as a light or medium machine gun for an infantry unit, an anti-aircraft gun, or a secondary gun for an armored vehicle.

2024年11月21日 · Eurasian Communist countries use the Soviet-designed Degtyarev 12.7mm heavy machine guns as antiaircraft and anti-vehicular weapons.

2023年8月31日 · The Navy uses M2 machine guns as deck-fired weapons to repel small boats, aircraft, and drones, while the Air Force uses them from the HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopter, and in a base defense...