Some might wonder what would have happened if Porter had a couple of machine guns. Others might say that’s ridiculous, ...

While early machine guns relied on recoil operations, modern assault rifles and light machine guns utilize gas operation. Gas operation is a bit more complex than recoil-based systems, as it ...

Early airborne combat was more like a drive ... Whomever could boost firepower and accuracy would have the upper hand and so machine guns were added to planes. But it certainly wasn’t as simple ...

In January 1884 he set about refining his machine-gun design in a basement flat in east London. One of Maxim's early prototypes could fire 666 rounds in a minute – around 11 bullets every second.

Russia’s most famed modern arms maker is set to introduce a newly designed “handheld machine gun” at next month’s IDEX defense industry show in Abu Dhabi. The Kalashnikov Concern, which manages about ...

Produced by WBUR, Boston’s NPR, in partnership with The Trace, The Gun Machine looks into the past to bring you a story that most Americans never learned in history class: how early ...