Zastava M84

Zastava M84

 Zastava M84

  Zastava M84

  Zastava M84

  Zastava M84

 Zastava M84

The Zastava M84 is a 7.62mm general-purpose machine gun manufactured by Zastava Arms.The M84 is based on the PK machine gun. The M84 chambers the 7.62×54mmR round. It is gas-operated, air-cooled, belt-fed and fully automatic.

Vickers K

Vickers K machine gun

  Vickers K

 Vickers K

  Vickers K

  Vickers K

  Vickers K

  Vickers K

  Vickers K

  Vickers K

  Vickers K

  Vickers K

  Vickers K

  Vickers K Ammo

  Vickers K Ammo

 Vickers K Ammo

The Vickers K machine gun, known as the Vickers Gas Operated (Vickers G.O.) in British service, was a rapid-firing machine gun developed and manufactured for use in aircraft by Vickers-Armstrongs. The high rate of fire was needed for the small period of time when the gunner would be able to fire at an attacking aircraft.
Development
The Vickers K was a development of the Vickers-Berthier (VB) light machine gun, adopted in 1932 by the Indian Army.The VB, like the Bren light machine gun, used a tilting locking breechblock. However, unlike the Bren, the VB locked its breech only at the last moment of forward travel and this enabled the development of the Vickers K also known as the "Vickers Gas Operated" (VGO) or "Vickers GO" .With lighter moving parts and the VB locking design, the Vickers K had an adjustable rate of fire between 950 and 1,200 rounds per minute; faster than the German MG34.The weapon was adopted for British service as the VGO. It was test-flown with a large 300-round drum, and beat the .303 Browning in reliability. However, the wide drum would have caused problems to accommodate, since it would have interfered with wing structures. When the belt-fed Browning Mark II was selected as the standard machine-gun armament for RAF aircraft, the VGO became redundant for the RAF. It continued to be used by the Fleet Air Arm until 1945
VGO No.2 Mk.1.
Originally intended for RAF airfield defense units, these guns were remanufactured from original Vickers G.O. No.1 Mk.1 aircraft guns. A number of these ‘Vickers G.O. Land Service’ machine guns found their way to a variety of British Commando and reconnaissance units which operated in Europe during 1944 and 1945. Once the war was over, all Vickers GO machine guns were declared obsolete and subsequently removed from service.
Vickers class K / Vickers G.O. machine gun is gas operated weapon, firing from open bolt in full automatic mode only. Its gas cylinder is located below the barrel, and long stroke gas piston operates a vertically tilting bolt. Feed is from top-mounted flat pan magazines with nominal capacity of 100 rounds, although it was customary to load only 96 or 97 rounds to ensure most reliable feeding. Gun is fitted with a single spade grip at the rear of receiver, with trigger to control fire. In ground applications, it was normally mounted on single or twin pintle mounts on various jeeps and trucks.

Vickers machine gun

Vickers machine gun

 Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun Ammo

  Vickers machine gun Ammo

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

  Vickers machine gun

 Vickers machine gun

The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The machine gun typically required a six to eight-man team to operate: one to fire, one to feed the ammunition, the rest to help carry the weapon, its ammunition and spare parts.It served from before the First World War until the 1960s, with air-cooled versions of it serving on World War I aircraft of many of the Allied air forces’ fighters.
The weapon had a reputation for great solidity and reliability. Ian V. Hogg, in Weapons & War Machines, describes an action that took place in August 1916, during which the British Army's 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps fired their ten Vickers guns continuously for twelve hours. Using 100 new barrels, they fired a million rounds without a single failure. “It was this absolute foolproof reliability which endeared the Vickers to every British soldier who ever fired one

History
The Vickers machine gun was based on the successful Maxim gun of the late 19th century. After purchasing the Maxim company outright in 1896, Vickers took the design of the Maxim gun and improved it, reducing its weight by lightening and simplifying the action and substituting components made with high strength alloys. A muzzle booster was also added.
The British Army formally adopted the Vickers gun as its standard machine gun on 26 November 1912, using it alongside their Maxims. There were still great shortages when the First World War began, and the British Expeditionary Force was still equipped with Maxims when sent to France in 1914. Vickers was, in fact, threatened with prosecution for war profiteering, due to the exorbitant price it was demanding for each gun. As a result, the price was slashed. As the war progressed, and numbers increased, it became the British Army's primary machine gun, and served on all fronts during the conflict. When the Lewis Gun was adopted as a light machine gun and issued to infantry units, the Vickers guns were redefined as heavy machine guns, withdrawn from infantry units, and grouped in the hands of the new Machine Gun Corps (when heavier 0.5 in/12.7 mm calibre machine guns appeared, the tripod-mounted, rifle-calibre machine guns like the Vickers became medium machine guns). After the First World War, the Machine Gun Corps (MGC) was disbanded and the Vickers returned to infantry units. Before the Second World War, there were plans to replace the Vickers gun; one of the contenders was the 7.92 mm (.312 in) Besa machine gun (a Czech design), which eventually became the British Army's standard tank-mounted machine gun. However, the Vickers remained in service with the British Army until 30 March 1968. Its last operational use was in the Radfan during the Aden Emergency. Its successor in UK service is the L7 GPMG.
Use in aircraft
In 1913, a Vickers machine gun was mounted on the experimental Vickers E.F.B.1 biplane, which was probably the world's first purpose-built combat aeroplane. However, by the time the production version, the Vickers F.B.5, had entered service the following year, the armament had been changed to a Lewis gun.
During World War I, the Vickers gun became a standard weapon on British and French military aircraft, especially after 1916. Although heavier than the Lewis, its closed bolt firing cycle made it much easier to synchronize to allow it to fire through aircraft propellers. The belt feed was enclosed right up to the gun's feed-way to inhibit effects from wind. Steel disintegrating-link ammunition belts were perfected in the UK by Prideaux in mid-war and became standard for aircraft guns thereafter. The famous Sopwith Camel and the SPAD XIII types used twin synchronized Vickers, as did most British and French fighters between 1918 and the mid-1930s. In the air, the weighty water cooling system was redundant, but because the weapon relied on barrel recoil, the (empty) water-holding barrel jacket or casing needed to be retained. Several sets of louvred slots were cut into the barrel jacket to aid air cooling.

Vektor SS-77

Vektor SS-77

 Vektor SS-77

  Vektor SS-77

  Vektor SS-77

  Vektor SS-77

  Vektor SS-77

  Vektor SS-77

  Vektor SS-77

  Vektor SS-77

  Vektor SS-77

  Vektor SS-77

  Vektor SS-77

  Vektor SS-77

  Vektor SS-77

 Vektor SS-77

History
In the late 1970s, South Africa was involved in an international controversy over apartheid and the South African Border War in Angola. As a result, it was subject to an international arms embargo and had to, out of necessity, design and manufacture its own weapons.The SS-77 was developed to replace the FN MAG. It was designed in 1977 by Richard Joseph Smith and Soregi, hence the name "SS-77". "SS" for Smith and Soregi, "77" for 1977, the year it was designed