Combat Machines

Sky History 2

7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Sunday 2 February

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A look at the machine gun, which came to dominate and even to personify the battlefields of the First World War. When operated in cool temperatures, the somewhat primitive device was able to fire 400 to 600 small-calibre rounds per minute, a figure that was to more than double by the conflict's end, with rounds fed via a fabric belt or a metal strip