Machine guns pre-dated the first world war by half a century and where it took place in 1914.But doubts about their role and effectiveness limited to use of machine guns in most pre-war armies.Most early war machine-guns were heavy and relatively immobile,requiring a team of soldiers to use.
At first,only the germans appreciated the power of machine guns when used on the defence from prepared positions with overlapping fields of fire
The 1914 machine gun, usually positioned on a flat tripod, would require a gun crew of four to six operators. In theory they could fire 400-600 small-calibre rounds per minute, a figure that was to more than double by the war's end, with rounds fed via a fabric belt or a metal strip.
Hi Peteli, you know alot about machine guns.I think that is true that,in 1914 the first machine gun was in World war one. Keep up the great work Peteli see you later. :)
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