{"id":16574,"date":"2020-08-31T11:46:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T16:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/?p=16574"},"modified":"2020-09-30T19:32:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T00:32:30","slug":"vickers-machine-gun-ammunition-belts-and-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/31\/vickers-machine-gun-ammunition-belts-and-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Vickers machine gun ammunition belts and links"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"usp-images-wrap\"><span class=\"usp-image-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-31_5f4d295fca6f1_IMG_7007.PNG\" class=\"lightbox\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"usp-attach-id-16575\" class=\"usp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-08-31_5f4d295fca6f1_IMG_7007-1024x576.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/d79c04UGlOA\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/d79c04UGlOA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This video is a selection of the different ammunition belts and links used for the Vickers machine gun that we hold in the collection. Each belt has a brief explanation, some loading with drill rounds and then some firing. It includes very rare examples, such as a Great War metal non-disintegrating link and an early expendable belt from the Great War.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the different belts and links used with the Vickers are available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/vickersmg.blog\/in-use\/accessories\/ammunition-boxes-belts-and-loading-accessories\/\">https:\/\/vickersmg.blog\/in-use\/accessories\/ammunition-boxes-belts-and-loading-accessories\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/d79c04UGlOA This video is a selection of the different ammunition belts and links used for the Vickers machine gun that we hold in the collection. Each belt has a brief explanation, some loading with drill rounds and then some firing. It includes very rare examples, such as a Great War metal non-disintegrating link and an&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/31\/vickers-machine-gun-ammunition-belts-and-links\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vickers machine gun ammunition belts and links<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1865,"featured_media":16575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,60,63,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-text","category-user","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16763,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions\/16763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}