Maxim Machine Gun

• British
• First machine gun
• 400-600 rounds of small-caliber bullets
• 4-6 men per team
• Water cooled
• Operated on a toggle lock
• Invented by Hiram Maxim

Bergman MP18 Gun

• 9mm Ammunition
• Germans banned from having it at Treaty of Versailles
• Used defensively
• 32 round magazines
• Effective

Browning Automatic Rifle

• US gun used only in the last year of the war
• Reliable in trenches
• 20-round detachable box magazine

Lewis Light Machine Gun

• United States 1911
• Weighed 12kg
• 47 cartridge magazine
• Air cooled
• Nicknamed the "Belgian rattlesnake" by Germans
• Eventually used on tanks and armored cars

Maschinengewehr

• German version of the Maxim
• Almost exactly the same as the Maxim
• 7.92mm rounds
• 400 rounds from a 250 round fabric belt per minute
• Mounted on a sledge
• 18kg