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Key Points - The Nazi German MG 42, introduced in 1942, was a fearsome 7.92x57mm Mauser general-purpose machine gun renowned for its devastatingly high rate of fire (1,200-1,800 rpm) and reliability, ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Gereon may be the cutest cross between a Roomba and an angel of death that you’ll ever see. The 20-inch-tall machine may vaguely resemble a robot vacuum cleaner on off-road ...

Key Point: During just one day in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme the British lost 21,000 men – many of them killed by Spandau machine guns, the German version of the ...

It turns out, Ukrainian forces really like the old-school Maxim machine gun. Or at least the Imperial Russian and later Soviet version of it, the PM1910. Although the Maxim machine gun was originally ...

At 10:59 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, a German machine gun crew fired a burst of rounds at approaching Americans. One bullet struck 23-year-old Pvt. Henry Gunther in the left temple. He died instantly.