Browning machine guns are a family of machine gun designs by John Browning, a prolific weapon designer.
These include:
- M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun, based on a design dating to 1889, was the first successful gas-operated machine gun to enter service.
- M1917 Browning machine gun, a family of water-cooled machine guns in .30-'06
- M1919 Browning machine gun, a family of air-cooled machine guns in .30-'06
- M1921 Browning machine gun, a family of water-cooled machine guns in .50 BMG
- M2 Browning machine gun, a family of air-cooled machine guns in .50 BMG
- M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, or its variants.
A related term:
- .50 BMG or .50 Browning Machine Gun, a large caliber machine gun round
Famous quotes containing the words browning, machine and/or gun:
“First time he kissed me, he but only kiss’d
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write;”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is perfect, the engineer is nobody. Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,—unteaches him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)