To meet the huge need for sidearms during World War I, gunmakers in the Eibar region of Spain produced hundreds of thousands ...

The “Ma Deuce,” as it is affectionately known, is the longest-serving machine gun in the world. It was born in the trenches of World War I. The German Army would tether its hydrogen-filled ...

Since the introduction of gunpowder to battlefields in the Middle Ages, firearms have been a deciding factor in battles for ...

The machine-gun, like other weapons of war, was designed to take lives. Its users on both sides in the First World War did their best to maximise its ability to do so. Once expertise in machine ...

World War I broke out in 1914 at an age when new offensive technology — machine guns, airplanes, poison gas, mass-produced artillery shrapnel shells, submarines — had vastly outpaced the arts ...

World War One was a time of fast change ... to larger weapons like machine guns. Explore our interactive sketch book. Click on different weapons and items to find out more about them.

Among the latest artifacts found are four German machine-guns from the First World War. "What we've been able to determine is that two of these machine-guns were allocated to South Vancouver as ...

The treatment of catastrophic casualties during World War I led to enormous advances ... is one dedicated to the Machine Gun Corps in Hyde Park Corner, London. On a raised plinth, it depicts ...

World War I was the first major war to be fought ... whose deep concrete bunkers and machine guns had remained virtually unscathed. The day remains the single bloodiest in the history of the ...