{"id":5698,"date":"2015-08-14T13:39:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T13:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/14\/heavy-machine-guns-of-the-great-war\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:38:21","slug":"heavy-machine-guns-of-the-great-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/14\/heavy-machine-guns-of-the-great-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Machine Guns of the Great War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0NN5WjWY48M?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out The Great War&#8217;s complete playlist here for your easy binge-watching enjoyment: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMK8YelHj6VS6w3KxuKsMvT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMK8YelHj6VS6w3KxuKsMvT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been really enjoying The Great War series, so I figured I ought to take advantage of an opportunity to look at several WWI heavy machine guns side by side. This is a video to give some historical context to the guns, and not a technical breakdown of exactly how they work (that will come later). These really were the epitome of industrialized warfare, and they wrought horrendous destruction on armies of the Great War.<\/p>\n<p>The guns covered here are the German MG08, British Vickers, and French Hotchkiss 1914.<\/p>\n<p>Hammer Prices:<br \/>\nVickers: $20,000<br \/>\nMG08: $11,000<br \/>\nHotchkiss 1914:  $7,000<\/p>\n<p>Other heavies used in the war include the Austrian Schwarzlose 1907\/12, the Russian 1905 and 1910 Maxims, the Italian Fiat-Revelli, and the American Browning 1895. The book I was quoting from towards the end was Dolf Goldsmith&#8217;s unmatched work on the Maxim, The Devil&#8217;s Paintbrush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons Merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons Check out The Great War&#8217;s complete playlist here for your easy binge-watching enjoyment: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMK8YelHj6VS6w3KxuKsMvT I have been really enjoying The Great War series, so I figured I ought to take advantage of an opportunity to look at several WWI heavy machine guns side by side. This is a video to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/14\/heavy-machine-guns-of-the-great-war\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heavy Machine Guns of the Great War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5699,"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-5698","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\/5698","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=5698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15537,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions\/15537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}