Download or read book Modern Machine Guns written by John Walter and published by Greenhill Books. This book was released on 2000-08-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative guide to post-war machine-guns covers a vast array of weapons from the Gatling gun to the six-barrel Vulcan. In addition to outlining the history of each weapon type and its development, this guide cites the caliber, ammunition, length, weight, feed, rate of fire, and muzzle velocity of each weapon. Includes weapons manufactured in Britain, the US, Germany, Russia, Yugoslavia, China, Italy, Israel and Czechoslovakia.