The very first MG that I ever used was a Lewis gun and it was a strange feeling seeing the drum turning underneath my point of aim. Anyone who criticizes this gun should bear in mind that most other MG's were heavy water cooled belt fed monsters. The Lewis guns filled many roles in WW1 and the allies were fortunate to have them. The pan design was perfect for rimmed bottle necked cartridges. I feel privileged to have used this unusually designed weapon.
Lewis gun was light enough to advance with assault troops, and provided fire support against the inevitable counter attack. I would not like to be advancing across barbed wire or through captured trenches with the spent belt hanging from my Lewis, especially at night The pan magazines were also simpler to reload by hand on the front line. In the air, again, a belt would be a hazard to the gunner or pilot. The Germans used a belt in their MG08/15 , one of the heaviest 'light machine guns' and generally acepted as inadequate. The german slang 08/15 is for something very simple, poor and "not special".
The pan magazine was a design compromise. None the less an superb piece of enginering. The rounds used at that time were mostly rimmed. Bad news as the rims tend to lock together if stacked in a box magazine, also using pointed Spitzer bullets in a tube magazine has the problem that when you shoved the sharp end of the round up against the primer of the round in front, there was a good chance of ruining your day. There were a lot of politic's involved with Lewis and the US Ordnance board which led to Lewis going overseas, interesting story in itself. When found in situ the Aluminium centre of the magazines tends to have a bluish bloom, often expanded and pushing any remaing rounds out. The Official British Lewis Gun Manual states , something like (I don't have it to hand) The Lewis gun is the kernel of the platoons fire power, men assigned to Lewis Guns should be physically strong, temprementally stable, intiellegent and reliable'.
vbbsmyt well the air cooled version of the 08/15 used a belt but the belt would feed and the spent belt would be encased on both sides so as to avoid the hazard that your thinking of your know what I mean if you saw an actual photo so no in air the belt would work because of the above said reason and the better ammo capacity. pan magazines problem with that is the foster mounting with a Lewis gun is a tricky thing you have to stand up or drag the gun down if you want to reload it all the while flying the plane without crashing so yeah now for a dorsal or tail gunner the pan would be fine since their job is to track planes and reloading is easier since they don't have to stand up to do it like the pilot also another thing the reloading for the pilot would suck since he would have to do it in the middle of a dogfight meaning he's be vulnerable in a brisfit or another 2 seater plane it wouldn't be as big a problem since you've got a dorsal gunner with you but still the enemy pilot could head on you while your reloading up front leaving the 2 of you helpless since you can't fight back unless you wanna lose your props by ducking down if your pilot and letting the dorsal gunner shoot through the props hitting them but also hitting the enemy pilot problem is how do you fly without props well you don't you have to crash the plane also the dorsal gunner might get killed if he shoots off a big enough piece of the propeller since the way your flying would cause it to fly back and hit him killing him instantly or just impaling him or just giving brain damage it's probably break his ribcage and his head would get crushed also and he's die like that but the impaling would mean he just gets stabbed by the wood killing him also the gun would be FUBAR since the wood would also hit it more than likely meaning if the propeller broke off before you could get the enemy plane well your fucked since your dorsal gunners either dead bleeding out or unconscious his gun is broken and you can't fly the plane with the props gone of course it's take a decent bit of bullets for the props to actually break off but it's possible it's also possible your gunner times it right to where every time a bullet goes over you it passes through the props without hitting them at all but again doubtful so really your screwed either way unless it works even then though you have to get control of the plane of your props survived before ramming into the enemy pilot
My great granduncle died in the trenches wielding one of those. He was a cavalry man, but after the Belgian cavalry got destroyed (Machineguns vs horses don’t favor the horses...) He joined the machinegun corps and fought with them until a Mortar shell found him and he was ripped open by shrapnel. We know about this because they found a doctors report on him. (Doctors were officers, so they have records on them) he was taken to a basement where they tried to fix his abdomen but he died. Belgium bought a fair share of these and they were well liked by the troops that took great advantage of them, they continued to serve in WO2. The Lewis gun was named “the Belgian rattlesnake” by the Germans. Due to its variable rate of fire, relatively low weight for its time and it being reliable as hell. They really hated these machineguns 😂
Steven - there is a very interesting graphic animation, if that's the right word, of a Triumph TR6 engine - you can find it on YTube - quite worth a watch.
With ease? I've seen lots of engineers mess up much simpler mechanics than this. And a gun of any sort has tons of extra demands to its design. The damn thing must work in any condition, dust or sand or water, when its hot or frozen. It must be simple and cheap to manufacture, easy to do maintenance on. Survive heavy abuse, etc etc. There are lots of gotcha-s in gun design, its not something you do "with ease", especially not with pencil, paper and ruler as in 1911.
Great video! Harry Patch (the last late oldest Brit soldier WW1) was on a Lewis gun team. Four man crew had to keep the gun going in very arduous conditions - mud, rain, snipers...
My grandfather was a Lewis gunner. Unfortunately due to his reluctance to talk about the war and me not knowing what to ask I learned very little about what he actually did. He did mention being away on a training course at the time of one of the major battles which is possibly one of the reasons why he survived.
My dad (RA) had to carry a RN AA Lewis gun off the damaged HMS Liverpool across Crete. The larger pan added weight. He had already been trained to assemble the gun while blind folded so repairs could be done during action at night.
Пулемёт Льюиса, узнаваемый по советским фильмам о гражданской войне, особенно в фильме Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, и то в нем кажется была использована его реплика, а не он сам....
Not only in .303, but .30 / 06, 7,62x54R, and 6,5 Dutch. Some converted to 7,9 in Belgium after WWI. The Japanese Navy made them in 7,7x56R ( aka .303). Predecessor ( mechanically) of the FG42, and then the GPMG M60. Doc Aav
This really is a excellent animation to show how a weapon works. Really easy to understand with taking the mechanism in layers and gradually adding one on at a time.
The Lewis has always been one of my favourite machineguns, I'm a sucker for pan mags, and the clockwork gear and spring mechanism is an interesting setup.
The Lewis gun doesn't use clockwork and a spring, as far as I recall. It is mechanically driven by a pawl on top of the bolt. The action of the bolt cycling drives the magazine. (I wonder if they had to re-tune the action to get it to work with the larger 94 round magazines used on aircraft, of if the heavier load of ammo slowed the cyclic rate down when firing with a full magazine?)
Justforever96. You are correct in saying the bolt movement activates the magazine. However it is the gas piston that drives the bolt to the rear, and the coil spring (which looks like a clockwork spring) is essential for driving the bolt home. OK, its not clockwork, but without the spring, the gun won't work. Rob
As vbbsmyt states: the spring to reset the bolt mechanism is more resembling that of a clock, as it is a spiral spring housed inside a gear, as opposed to the more traditional use of a cylindrical/conical spring. I wasn't referring to the mechanism to rotate the pan.
It always looked like a water-cooled mg...couldn’t figure out where the water and hose would’ve been. Thx to the cutaway I understand how it was able to suck cool air over the barrel fins! Thanks for resolving a lifelong mystery for me! ✌🏼
By the way, the inner fins are of pure copper, a metal that instantly disperses heat. It is used in armored cars so that cutting torches cannot cut through their shells, because it is instantly diffused through the skin of the shell as it's sandwiched between an 1/8" inner and outer sheath of cold-rolled steel.
This has so many modern features. It is a long stroke gas piston design. It has dual extractors and a rotating bolt. The coil spring is novel and I have not seen another gun with this type of mechanism to move the bolt into battery. I wonder what kind of drawbacks this type of spring has since it is not used in firearms today.
It is by far the best animation i ever seen i really appreciate the efforts you put in thank you so much. can you make such detailed animations of MG42, G3, FN-FAL, Berret .50 semi auto, M2 Browning, HK 416, steyr AUG etc.
Excellent Illustration. Your video just answered all of my questions. That is one heck of a piece of mechanical hardware. Thanks for sharing! Eric Dee.
@@ЕвгенийА-о1н Не, дегтярь был, когда стреляли, а так льюис настоящий, его еще в фильме Шестой показали. просто видать с патронами для него на мосфильме туго, вот и стрелял дегтярь за него. И тигры у мосфильма есть, минимум два, но видать с запчастями туго, вот и ездят за них другие, когда возможно.
@@dgecson , я смотрел как снимали " БЕЛОЕ СОЛНЦЕ..", там и сказали про ДИКТЯРЬ, закомуфлированный под ЛЬЮИС! А когда снимали " ОСВОБОЖДЕНИЕ", реж. Озерова он настоял чтобы восстановить или сделать Тигры для съёмок!
Well if I were to give guess considering we don’t see forced air induction anywhere else really except here is that it’s effect is not enough to be warranted on other weapons or it s effects were negligible
There's actually more to it than that, if you look the shroud extends beyond the muzzle of the barrel. This has the effect of creating a low pressure area at the muzzle when the gun is fired. As the back of the shroud is also open cold air is drawn towards the muzzle along the fins.
Thank you.I was wondering how does mag feed ammo into action.That animation clear that up very well.Thx again. I hope you can make Schwarzlose and Hotchkiss MG some day.
for some reason im a huge fan of guns with weird ass magazines, ill be like "hmmmmm how tf does it do that?" look up a video on it, usually get led here, and im like "woah, that's pretty interesting"
Great video I just realized my grandfather has a Lewis barrel in his shed always wondered what it was it didn't have the shroud over it just cooling fins.
Ive been having a really goofy idea for this thing. Just make the magazine like a few feet taller and you get infinite ammo like COD machine guns in campaigns. But the gun might jam or break idk. Its just a light, slow, hand held CRAM lol
Ого, запирание ствола поворотом затвора, газовый двигатель - все принципы современного автоматического оружия имеются. Но действительно очень сложная. Каково её было разбирать и обслуживать
Basically this uses similar principles to the Ak-47 or M-16 (and their later derivatives)where the expanding gasses produced by the gunpowder power the weapon itself. I guess some things are so good they never go out of style.
This is masterpiece of engineering of its time.
Alexander Tchourbanov emm no, take a look to an old clock
@@TheSpartannaruto ???
@@bluemobster0023 the old clocks are masterpieces of engineering of its time*
@@TheSpartannaruto and so are the guns
Ready Beto Should I tell him?
The very first MG that I ever used was a Lewis gun and it was a strange feeling seeing the drum turning underneath my point of aim. Anyone who criticizes this gun should bear in mind that most other MG's were heavy water cooled belt fed monsters. The Lewis guns filled many roles in WW1 and the allies were fortunate to have them. The pan design was perfect for rimmed bottle necked cartridges. I feel privileged to have used this unusually designed weapon.
I never understood how the cylindrical magazine worked until I watched your video, thanks!
Lewis gun was light enough to advance with assault troops, and provided fire support against the inevitable counter attack. I would not like to be advancing across barbed wire or through captured trenches with the spent belt hanging from my Lewis, especially at night The pan magazines were also simpler to reload by hand on the front line. In the air, again, a belt would be a hazard to the gunner or pilot. The Germans used a belt in their MG08/15 , one of the heaviest 'light machine guns' and generally acepted as inadequate. The german slang 08/15 is for something very simple, poor and "not special".
The pan magazine was a design compromise. None the less an superb piece of enginering. The rounds used at that time were mostly rimmed. Bad news as the rims tend to lock together if stacked in a box magazine, also using pointed Spitzer bullets in a tube magazine has the problem that when you shoved the sharp end of the round up against the primer of the round in front, there was a good chance of ruining your day. There were a lot of politic's involved with Lewis and the US Ordnance board which led to Lewis going overseas, interesting story in itself. When found in situ the Aluminium centre of the magazines tends to have a bluish bloom, often expanded and pushing any remaing rounds out. The Official British Lewis Gun Manual states , something like (I don't have it to hand) The Lewis gun is the kernel of the platoons fire power, men assigned to Lewis Guns should be physically strong, temprementally stable, intiellegent and reliable'.
vbbsmyt well the air cooled version of the 08/15 used a belt but the belt would feed and the spent belt would be encased on both sides so as to avoid the hazard that your thinking of your know what I mean if you saw an actual photo so no in air the belt would work because of the above said reason and the better ammo capacity. pan magazines problem with that is the foster mounting with a Lewis gun is a tricky thing you have to stand up or drag the gun down if you want to reload it all the while flying the plane without crashing so yeah now for a dorsal or tail gunner the pan would be fine since their job is to track planes and reloading is easier since they don't have to stand up to do it like the pilot also another thing the reloading for the pilot would suck since he would have to do it in the middle of a dogfight meaning he's be vulnerable in a brisfit or another 2 seater plane it wouldn't be as big a problem since you've got a dorsal gunner with you but still the enemy pilot could head on you while your reloading up front leaving the 2 of you helpless since you can't fight back unless you wanna lose your props by ducking down if your pilot and letting the dorsal gunner shoot through the props hitting them but also hitting the enemy pilot problem is how do you fly without props well you don't you have to crash the plane also the dorsal gunner might get killed if he shoots off a big enough piece of the propeller since the way your flying would cause it to fly back and hit him killing him instantly or just impaling him or just giving brain damage it's probably break his ribcage and his head would get crushed also and he's die like that but the impaling would mean he just gets stabbed by the wood killing him also the gun would be FUBAR since the wood would also hit it more than likely meaning if the propeller broke off before you could get the enemy plane well your fucked since your dorsal gunners either dead bleeding out or unconscious his gun is broken and you can't fly the plane with the props gone of course it's take a decent bit of bullets for the props to actually break off but it's possible it's also possible your gunner times it right to where every time a bullet goes over you it passes through the props without hitting them at all but again doubtful so really your screwed either way unless it works even then though you have to get control of the plane of your props survived before ramming into the enemy pilot
But for ground i would prefer a pan magazine
Cylinders are long hollow pipes also known as tubes.
The clock spring on the rack and pinion is ingenious.
My great granduncle died in the trenches wielding one of those.
He was a cavalry man, but after the Belgian cavalry got destroyed (Machineguns vs horses don’t favor the horses...)
He joined the machinegun corps and fought with them until a Mortar shell found him and he was ripped open by shrapnel. We know about this because they found a doctors report on him. (Doctors were officers, so they have records on them) he was taken to a basement where they tried to fix his abdomen but he died.
Belgium bought a fair share of these and they were well liked by the troops that took great advantage of them, they continued to serve in WO2.
The Lewis gun was named “the Belgian rattlesnake” by the Germans. Due to its variable rate of fire, relatively low weight for its time and it being reliable as hell.
They really hated these machineguns 😂
What happen he got trapped underneath and drowned?
A gun so reliable that it was used by Imperial Stormtroopers, long ago, in a galaxy far far away.
Lol take a drum off now it a blaster lol
If I recall correctly, irl German Stormtroopers would use them as well.
Sir Boomsalot I don’t know where you heard that from but this is a British gun used by British Soldiers.... not German Stormtroopers
It was. German stormtroopers were also trained to use captured British firearms. Heck, captured Lewis guns were even used by the regular army باطل
No, that was the Sterling SMG.
Are you doing the animations for Othias ?
I made the Lewis animation for Othias, and am working on an animation of the MG08, and then possibly other MGs for his excellent primer series. Rob
Your animation is remarkable. I've never seen such a great explanation of something like this. Really great.
Steven - there is a very interesting graphic animation, if that's the right word, of a Triumph TR6 engine - you can find it on YTube - quite worth a watch.
Absolutely outstanding animation!!! Many thanks!
This is what happens when a clockmaker designs a gun, it’s beautiful
my god so many moving parts
Still it was reliable awsome gun much loved by its crews
Tristan Courter duh
Was that what my grandfather had in the back seat of his RE-8?
any (decent) mechanical engineer can design this with ease
With ease? I've seen lots of engineers mess up much simpler mechanics than this. And a gun of any sort has tons of extra demands to its design. The damn thing must work in any condition, dust or sand or water, when its hot or frozen. It must be simple and cheap to manufacture, easy to do maintenance on. Survive heavy abuse, etc etc. There are lots of gotcha-s in gun design, its not something you do "with ease", especially not with pencil, paper and ruler as in 1911.
Great video! Harry Patch (the last late oldest Brit soldier WW1) was on a Lewis gun team. Four man crew had to keep the gun going in very arduous conditions - mud, rain, snipers...
Amazing mate. Thank you for creating such wonderful video.
The bolt design still lives on to this day through the m60 :D
It just kept getting crazier and crazier. Amazing engineering.
Absolutely excellent animation, very easily understood, and covering all mechanical moving parts. Excellent!!!
This visualisation was awesome. It really opened my eyes to the mechanics of this weapon! Lovely job.
The Gasrod works as nub to turn the Bolt. This is something you dont see every day. Thanks for the brilliant animation
My grandfather was a Lewis gunner. Unfortunately due to his reluctance to talk about the war and me not knowing what to ask I learned very little about what he actually did. He did mention being away on a training course at the time of one of the major battles which is possibly one of the reasons why he survived.
Excellent animation that very clearly shows how this gun works. Thanks, I really appreciate all the work that went into this.
I guess when you run out of ammo, you could just pray.
Note my words : the algorithm has spoken this will be recommended to everyone
I do like the way an attempt was made here to cool the barrel.I perfected it!
jee this thing is so simple, and somehow still so reliable too. amazing
My dad (RA) had to carry a RN AA Lewis gun off the damaged HMS Liverpool across Crete. The larger pan added weight. He had already been trained to assemble the gun while blind folded so repairs could be done during action at night.
Пулемёт Льюиса, узнаваемый по советским фильмам о гражданской войне, особенно в фильме Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, и то в нем кажется была использована его реплика, а не он сам....
Amazing, one of the best how it works demo's on this system I have seen.
Always liked the anti-aircraft module with the fins and shroud... 😀
the genius in the design and the workmanship needed to make the Lewis gun shows that as a country the US has gone backwards.
Best animation I've seen .Crystal clear graphics - well done.
Recipio And not too fast to see.
gotta say, it looks very reliable because of how simple the design is unlike other machine guns of the time
I can finally understand how the gun works and what is like inside the barrel,thank you!
Not only in .303, but .30 / 06, 7,62x54R, and 6,5 Dutch. Some converted to 7,9 in Belgium after WWI.
The Japanese Navy made them in 7,7x56R ( aka .303).
Predecessor ( mechanically) of the FG42, and then the GPMG M60.
Doc Aav
The lewis without the watercooler
Looks really cool
How many moving parts you want?
Lewis gun : Yes!
It's simpler than other MGs of the time - particularly as it's an open-bolt design.
finally, a video where it shows how it works
This really is a excellent animation to show how a weapon works. Really easy to understand with taking the mechanism in layers and gradually adding one on at a time.
Have you watched my animation of the St. Étienne 1907? That one is a classic example needing the layer by layer approach. Rob
The Lewis has always been one of my favourite machineguns, I'm a sucker for pan mags, and the clockwork gear and spring mechanism is an interesting setup.
The Lewis gun doesn't use clockwork and a spring, as far as I recall. It is mechanically driven by a pawl on top of the bolt. The action of the bolt cycling drives the magazine. (I wonder if they had to re-tune the action to get it to work with the larger 94 round magazines used on aircraft, of if the heavier load of ammo slowed the cyclic rate down when firing with a full magazine?)
Justforever96. You are correct in saying the bolt movement activates the magazine. However it is the gas piston that drives the bolt to the rear, and the coil spring (which looks like a clockwork spring) is essential for driving the bolt home. OK, its not clockwork, but without the spring, the gun won't work. Rob
As vbbsmyt states: the spring to reset the bolt mechanism is more resembling that of a clock, as it is a spiral spring housed inside a gear, as opposed to the more traditional use of a cylindrical/conical spring. I wasn't referring to the mechanism to rotate the pan.
"Light" simple tough. Easy to maintain and fire.
It always looked like a water-cooled mg...couldn’t figure out where the water and hose would’ve been. Thx to the cutaway I understand how it was able to suck cool air over the barrel fins!
Thanks for resolving a lifelong mystery for me! ✌🏼
When the thing goes quack quack quack, the hun is ducking.
What an extraordinary animation .
Cocks back bolt
*Thinks it's empty
*Surprise, open bolt.
So cool, I could watch these all day.
2:49 this is the part where my question has been answered about how the magazine works... Thanks for the video :)
Answered the question I had. 10/10
Ah thanks,always thought about why the big barrel for long now
I recently watch this gun fired, it's an amazing piece of workmanship.
Craftsmanship?
Beautiful cut-aways and slow-mo of the action is very well done, thank you!
By the way, the inner fins are of pure copper, a metal that instantly disperses heat. It is used in armored cars so that cutting torches cannot cut through their shells, because it is instantly diffused through the skin of the shell as it's sandwiched between an 1/8" inner and outer sheath of cold-rolled steel.
According to the manufacturer's manual (Savage Arms Corp, 1918) the fins / radiator were made of aluminium.
Wow one of the first gas piston machine guns. Also my favorite machine guns of ww1.
Hold my massive heat sink ,whilst I get a quart of oil.
Excellent and educational animation. Thank you very much for effort!
Замечательная машина , для своего времени!
"Вот что ребята, пулемёт я вам не дам!" (С) 🙂
Сейчас не помню где читал, что Льюиса не нашлось и реквизиторы замаскировали ДП.
Итересно а какои пулемет утопили..?
This is how you make a video to explain something. Well done.
Great animation, it even show every parts' details
Excellent video of one of the more effective machine guns of WWI.
Wow...and I was complaining about the M60. This thing takes the cake in complications.
very good! a Lewis gun was described in Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls".
для пулемета очень маленькая вместительность магазина, хотя во времена винтовок может это ещё прокатывало
Elegant design.
Excellent, logically put together explanation. Thankyou!
These animations are absolutely fabulous. Keep up the good work.
That was very informative, thanks, I didn't fully understand how the gun worked until I watched this.
I also had wondered.
Если не ошибаюсь, это легендарный пулимет Льюиса!
Очень профессионально сделано видео.
This has so many modern features. It is a long stroke gas piston design. It has dual extractors and a rotating bolt. The coil spring is novel and I have not seen another gun with this type of mechanism to move the bolt into battery. I wonder what kind of drawbacks this type of spring has since it is not used in firearms today.
It got hot due to its position, so tended to loose its tempering, so became less powerful.
Lewis gun lore
wow super animation
Whats amazing is how the receiver works!
It is by far the best animation i ever seen i really appreciate the efforts you put in thank you so much. can you make such detailed animations of MG42, G3, FN-FAL, Berret .50 semi auto, M2 Browning, HK 416, steyr AUG etc.
Excellent Illustration. Your video just answered all of my questions. That is one heck of a piece of mechanical hardware.
Thanks for sharing! Eric Dee.
У товарища Сухова такой же был)
У тов. Сухова, был Дигтярь под Льюис закомуфлирован, также как во всех фильмах немецкие танки это наши "фанерой" загримерованы!
@@ЕвгенийА-о1н Не, дегтярь был, когда стреляли, а так льюис настоящий, его еще в фильме Шестой показали. просто видать с патронами для него на мосфильме туго, вот и стрелял дегтярь за него. И тигры у мосфильма есть, минимум два, но видать с запчастями туго, вот и ездят за них другие, когда возможно.
@@dgecson , я смотрел как снимали " БЕЛОЕ СОЛНЦЕ..", там и сказали про ДИКТЯРЬ, закомуфлированный под ЛЬЮИС! А когда снимали " ОСВОБОЖДЕНИЕ", реж. Озерова он настоял чтобы восстановить или сделать Тигры для съёмок!
Superb animation. 10/10.
I wonder just how well the forced air induction design of the barrel shroud actually worked.
Well if I were to give guess considering we don’t see forced air induction anywhere else really except here is that it’s effect is not enough to be warranted on other weapons or it s effects were negligible
To what degree of effectiveness Idk
I like the "clockspring."
Your video is so well-made. It answered all questions I had about this MG. Thanks and Cheers!
Thank you for such a good working model and explanation.
Ingenious weapon. And a great video, wonderful animation. Thanks.
Great graphics.......always wondered why such a large shroud around the barrel.....to cover the cooling fins! Thanks very much!!
There's actually more to it than that, if you look the shroud extends beyond the muzzle of the barrel. This has the effect of creating a low pressure area at the muzzle when the gun is fired. As the back of the shroud is also open cold air is drawn towards the muzzle along the fins.
Thank you.I was wondering how does mag feed ammo into action.That animation clear that up very well.Thx again.
I hope you can make Schwarzlose and Hotchkiss MG some day.
Really good video, the quality is maybe better that World of Guns. Congrats.
thank you for the spring field rifle musket and the breech loader rifle musket video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
for some reason im a huge fan of guns with weird ass magazines, ill be like "hmmmmm how tf does it do that?" look up a video on it, usually get led here, and im like "woah, that's pretty interesting"
Great video I just realized my grandfather has a Lewis barrel in his shed always wondered what it was it didn't have the shroud over it just cooling fins.
Nice. The inventor must be very smart
I always wondered what was in that giant Barral. always thought it was for show, but now I know.
This is what I needed to see, thank you
That was really good. Next time I'm over the somme in my sopwith I'll give more thought to the many moving parts of the reliable lewis gun.
Ive been having a really goofy idea for this thing. Just make the magazine like a few feet taller and you get infinite ammo like COD machine guns in campaigns. But the gun might jam or break idk. Its just a light, slow, hand held CRAM lol
This gun is so reliable and faster to shoot
Emus : im about to end this man's whole carier
Turns out the Lewis cost more to make than the Vickers machinegun but they could manufacture them much faster! Darn good gun!
Amazing animation. Thank you
Congratulations!! excelent work!!
Ого, запирание ствола поворотом затвора, газовый двигатель - все принципы современного автоматического оружия имеются. Но действительно очень сложная. Каково её было разбирать и обслуживать
Its pretty crazy how much gasses the rounds release when fired
cool animation ! keep going ^^
thanks to you it easier to understand weapons' mechanisms.
Well done. I just had several epiphanys
Basically this uses similar principles to the Ak-47 or M-16 (and their later derivatives)where the expanding gasses produced by the gunpowder power the weapon itself. I guess some things are so good they never go out of style.
The bolt design would be later used in the FG 42.
Awesome animation , did not know Lewis machine gun has gas piston