M1895 Colt-Browning Machine Gun

M1895 Colt-Browning Machine Gun

The Colt-Browning M1895, nicknamed potato digger due to its unusual operating mechanism, is an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute. Based on a John Moses Browning design dating to 1889, it was the first successful gas-operated machine gun to enter service.

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