Machine_Gun_History

Machine Gun History With any new invention comes change. With a domestic invention comes household innovations and with a military invention comes a revolution in military affairs. A revolution in military affairs is a fundamental change in the nature of warfare. With the invention of the machine gun came such a revolution in military affairs. Machine gun where used as early as the civil war although it was a very crude primitive weapon. Tactics had not changed from the civil war to WWI. The standard tactics of the war was an infantry charge but with a weapon that is capable of firing 600 rounds a minute there was huge casualties. Almost before soldiers could get out of the trenches in a charge they were cut down. The machine gun known as the queen of the battlefield during World War 1 was originally invented by Hiram Maxim in 1884. Though there was other types of automatic guns this was the first weapon able to sustain firing without external support. The British army bought the machine gun in 1890. By the time of the First World War the machine gun was used by all major powers however Germans had 20 times the amount of machine guns machine, gun, weapon, germans, war, battle, attack, german, british, guns, french, fire, men, defensive, forces, bombardment, trenches, one, haig, cooled, allied, water, tactics, somme, military, line, land, invention, charge, casualties, began, artillery, very, verdun, troops, time