enrique262:The unusual M1895 Colt–Browning “potato digger”, an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated ma
enrique262:The unusual M1895 Colt–Browning “potato digger”, an air-cooled, belt-fed, gas-operated machine gun that fires from a closed bolt with a cyclic rate of 450 rounds per minute, the first successful gas-operated machine gun to see service. Nicknamed as such for her unusual operating mechanism, similar to a lever-action rifle, in which the rear-hinged lever, located under the barrel, was actuated by the muzzle blast operating upon it, making it operate the action by swing downwards and rearwards, cycling the weapon. -- source link
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