Throughline producer Lawrence Wu tells Cristina Kim all about the maxim gun—the world's first automatic machine gun—and the lengths he took to find out exactly how this 19th century weapon would have ...

The Breda Model 37 was Italy's primary heavy machine gun of World War Two, chambered in 8x59mm and fired from a tripod to maximize long-range effectiveness. Produced from 1937 through the war - ...

We join a controlled live-fire range to observe the DShK heavy machine gun in action. The video covers its history and basic design, the sound and reach of its long-range fire, and the strict safety ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** The DShK started its combat ...

Few weapons have defined the tempo of modern warfare quite like the machine gun. It isn’t a new concept by any means, with the notion of rapid fire volleys being something dating back to the Age of ...

The United States military has employed the venerable M2 .50-caliber machine gun for nearly ninety years. That weapon is essentially a supersized version of the M1919 .30-caliber Browning machine gun, ...