Hotchkiss Machine Guns
From Verdun to Iwo Jima
Hotchkiss Machine Guns
From Verdun to Iwo Jima
Description
The air-cooled Hotchkiss machine gun was the first to function effectively by tapping propellant gas from the bore as the gun fired.
Although the Hotchkiss would be overshadowed by the water-cooled Maxim and Vickers Guns, it proved successful enough to develop the Modèle Portative: a man-portable version which, it was hoped, could move with infantrymen as they advanced. Later mounted on tanks and aircraft, it became the first automatic weapon to obtain a 'kill' in aerial combat.
This is an illustrated overview of the Odkolek-Hotchkiss system, from World War I to Japan and the Pacific island landings. Here, a succession of derivatives found favour in theatres of operations in which water-cooling could be more of a liability than an asset, such as the 'Woodpecker' – the Type 92 Hotchkiss, with its characteristically slow rate of fire – which cut swathes through the US ranks.
Supported by contemporary photographs and full-colour illustrations, this title explores the exciting and eventful history of the first successful gas-operated machine gun.
Table of Contents
Development
Use
Impact
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 28 Nov 2019 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 80 |
| ISBN | 9781472836151 |
| Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
| Illustrations | Colour artwork plates; black & white and colour photographs and illustrations |
| Series | Weapon |
| Short code | WPN 71 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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