{"id":47320,"date":"2019-04-12T02:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T06:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=47320"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:00:03","slug":"machine-guns-light-medium-heavy-or-sub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/machine-guns-light-medium-heavy-or-sub\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine-guns: light, medium, heavy, or sub?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ivYlHU0Zi-I\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Lindybeige<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 2 Mar 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Machine-guns &#8211; do you know the difference between light, medium, and heavy? What is a &#8216;submachinegun&#8217;?<br \/>\nSupport me on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many people are hazy over the differences between the various types of machine-gun, and here I ramble on for ten whole minutes about the distinctions. It is a bit of a moving target, as terminology alters as technology does, but the terms used in World War Two are still reasonably current.  <\/p>\n<p>Lindybeige: a channel of archaeology, ancient and medieval warfare, rants, swing dance, travelogues, evolution, and whatever else occurs to me to make.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the detail-minded, don&#8217;t panic: he&#8217;s taken to task in the comments on this video for a few of the howlers you may have noticed on the way by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindybeige Published on 2 Mar 2016 Machine-guns &#8211; do you know the difference between light, medium, and heavy? What is a &#8216;submachinegun&#8217;? Support me on Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/Lindybeige Many people are hazy over the differences between the various types of machine-gun, and here I ramble on for ten whole minutes about the distinctions. It is a [&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":[7,5,15,663,246,230],"tags":[49,1398,1265,1264],"class_list":["post-47320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military","category-technology","category-weapons","category-ww1","category-ww2","tag-guns","tag-lindybeige","tag-machineguns","tag-submachineguns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cje","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47320","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=47320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47323,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47320\/revisions\/47323"}],"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=47320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}