{"id":22563,"date":"2023-06-07T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/07\/last-gasp-of-the-german-maxim-the-air-cooled-mg-08-18\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:00:19","slug":"last-gasp-of-the-german-maxim-the-air-cooled-mg-08-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/07\/last-gasp-of-the-german-maxim-the-air-cooled-mg-08-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Gasp of the German Maxim: the Air-Cooled MG 08\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P0BkPwY6_18?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The MG 08\/18 was developed at the very end of World War One as a lighter alternative to the MG 08\/15. It used an air-cooled barrel, and between not needing water and having lighter parts it managed to be about 6 pounds less weight than the 08\/15. Only a few hundred appear to have been produced before the end of the war, and they were not used by the German military during the Weimar era (the Mg 08\/15 was). The 08\/18 barrel jacket served as the basis for the MG34 barrel shroud, interestingly.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Limex for giving me access to this very rare gun to film for you!<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeaponshttp:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com The MG 08\/18 was developed at the very end of World War One as a lighter alternative to the MG 08\/15. It used an air-cooled barrel, and between not needing water and having lighter parts it managed to be about 6 pounds less weight than the 08\/15. Only a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/07\/last-gasp-of-the-german-maxim-the-air-cooled-mg-08-18\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last Gasp of the German Maxim: the Air-Cooled MG 08\/18<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22564,"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":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}