{"id":39815,"date":"2017-08-28T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39815"},"modified":"2020-03-31T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:52:40","slug":"heavy-machine-guns-of-the-great-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/28\/heavy-machine-guns-of-the-great-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Machine Guns of the Great War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0NN5WjWY48M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 14 Aug 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check out The Great War&#8217;s complete playlist here for your easy binge-watching enjoyment:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMK8YelHj6VS6w3KxuKsMvT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMK8YelHj6VS6w3KxuKsMvT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been really enjoying The Great War series, so I figured I ought to take advantage of an opportunity to look at several WWI heavy machine guns side by side. This is a video to give some historical context to the guns, and not a technical breakdown of exactly how they work (that will come later). These really were the epitome of industrialized warfare, and they wrought horrendous destruction on armies of the Great War.<\/p>\n<p>The guns covered here are the German MG08, British Vickers, and French Hotchkiss 1914.<\/p>\n<p>Hammer Prices:<br \/>\nVickers: $20,000<br \/>\nMG08: $11,000<br \/>\nHotchkiss 1914: $7,000<\/p>\n<p>Other heavies used in the war include the Austrian Schwarzlose 1907\/12, the Russian 1905 and 1910 Maxims, the Italian Fiat-Revelli, and the American Browning 1895. The book I was quoting from towards the end was Dolf Goldsmith&#8217;s unmatched work on the Maxim, <em>The Devil&#8217;s Paintbrush<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 14 Aug 2015 Check out The Great War&#8217;s complete playlist here for your easy binge-watching enjoyment: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMK8YelHj6VS6w3KxuKsMvT I have been really enjoying The Great War series, so I figured I ought to take advantage of an opportunity to look at several WWI heavy machine guns side by side. This is a video to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,1117,1118,7,5,15,663,246],"tags":[140,1366,49,174,1265],"class_list":["post-39815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-france","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-technology","category-weapons","category-ww1","tag-design","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-innovation","tag-machineguns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-amb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56108,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39815\/revisions\/56108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}