Talk:Heavy machine gun

WP:MILHIST Assessment

Good length, good content; I won't pretend I've read the whole thing, but a cursory examination indicates that it's thorough and well-written. But there needs to be sectioning I think. LordAmeth 08:46, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

There is a tripod gun with the barrel marked 718 DIA (for diameter), does anyone know the gun? Chris 08:46, 21 February 2007 (UTC) mebo

Clarifaction Required

“Currently, firearms with calibers smaller than 12.7 mm are generally considered medium machine guns…” ¿Which “12.7MM”? The .50 caliber round, such as is used in the M-2 HMG, is bigger than the 12.7MM, such as was used in the WWII-Era Japanese HMG. And do not confuse the two; The M-2’s round was developed (and therefore sized) in the caliber system, whereas the Japanese MG was developed with metric in mind, and therefore is sized from that.[[User:Andering J. REDDSON|A. J. REDDSON]

Removal of "Lewis Gun" section

This Lewis Gun is a light machine gun, and the statement "...What made it very useful was that it was significantly lighter than water-cooled weapons, but could fire nearly as much due to a very large cooling assembly" is nonsensical. The "large cooling assembly" is an aluminum tube with internal fins using the muzzle blast to supposedly force air through the tube to cool the barrel. Experience in WW2 showed that the cooling tube was not required, but the lack of a quick-change barrel and the use of a magazine vs. belted ammo made the Lewis incapable of acting as a heavy machine gun (which it was not designed to do anyway.) GMan552 (talk) 06:34, 23 November 2012 (UTC)