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Vickers Mk. I Machine Gun - .303 British
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Vickers Mk. I Machine Gun - .303 British
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Vickers Mk. I with ribbed water jacket - .303 British

The Vickers Machine Gun, or simply Vickers Gun, is a British medium machine gun made by the Vickers company, chambered in .303 British caliber. It was a further development of the Maxim machine gun developed in 1885 by Hiram Maxim, whose patent the company had purchased in 1896, and was manufactured from 1912.

Even before Hiram Maxim left the company, the Vickers company further developed the Maxim machine gun into the Vickers machine gun. Vickers purchased the patents as early as 1896. Like the Maxim machine gun, the Vickers machine gun had a toggle-lock action, but the breech buckled upward instead of downward, allowing for a lower design of the breech housing, resulting in size and weight savings.

Thus was born the Vickers R.C. GUN, CLASS C, Model 1908 "Light Pattern" and after much testing and some modification, the gun was adopted as the standard "Vickers Machine Gun .303 Mark I" in the British Army on November 26, 1912. The Vickers machine gun used standard British .303 caliber ammunition and was popular with soldiers for its reliability and solid workmanship. The Vickers Gun was the standard heavy machine gun of the British Army in World War I. It became the standard weapon in the British Empire and Commonwealth for the next 55 years and remained in service virtually unchanged. The machine gun was offered for various calibers and sold worldwide.

Specifications

(1912–1968)

  • Type: Machine Gun
  • Caliber: .303 British
  • Weight: 33.1 lbs (15 kg) - 50.7 lbs (23 kg)
  • Length: 43.3 in (110 cm)
  • Barrel length: 28.3 in (72 cm)
  • Feed System: 250-round canvas belt
  • Fire Modes: Full-Auto


The Vickers Medium Machine Gun appears in the following movies, TV shows, and video games:


Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Hearts of the World British soldiers 1918
Wings mounted on a plane 1927
Journey's End British soldiers 1930
All Quiet on the Western Front French soldiers 1930
Doughboys U.S. soldiers 1930
Morocco Morocco Rebels 1930
Tell England British and Turkish soldiers With ribbed water jacket 1931
The Public Enemy Hitmen 1931
The Last Mile Prison Guards 1932
A Farewell to Arms Austrian pilot 1932
Horizon (Gorizont) White Army officers With ribbed water jacket 1932
Captured! British soldiers 1933
Shock Troop British soldiers 1934
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Gary Cooper Lieutenant. Alan McGregor 1935
Franchot Tone Lieutenant. John Forsythe
Bengal Lancers
Rebels
Sanders of the River British African soldiers With ribbed water jacket 1935
Secret Agent German soldiers 1936
You Only Live Once 1937
San Quentin 1937
Knight Without Armour White and Red soldiers With ribbed water jacket 1937
Each Dawn I Die 1939
Clouds Over Europe Laurence Olivier Tony McVane 1939
Viking crewmembers
Sundown Bruce Cabot William Crawford with ribber water jacked 1941
British soldiers, tribal fighters
Sergeant York 1941
Across the Pacific Humphrey Bogart Rick Leland 1942
Wake Island Philip Van Zandt Cpl. Gus Goebbels 1942
U.S. troops
Bataan 1943
Sahara mocked up to look like a Maxim MG08 1943
Air Force dressed up as water-cooled Browning M2s 1943
A Walk In The Sun 1945
Viva Zapata! Mexican soldiers 1952
The Desert Rats Austrialian and German soldiers 1953
Paratrooper British paratroopers 1953
Paths of Glory French soldier 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai Japanese soldiers 1957
Never So Few Japanese machine gunners 1957
Men in War North Korean soldiers 1957
Dunkirk British soldiers 1958
When Hell Broke Loose German soldiers standing for Maxim MG08 1958
Konga British soldiers 1961
Lawrence of Arabia Arab rebels 1962
55 Days at Peking U.S. Marines mocked up as 1895 Maxim Machine Gun 1963
Goldfinger 1964
Viva Maria! Carlos López Moctezuma Ródriguez 1965
Brigitte Bardot Maria Fitzgerald O'Malley
Doctor Zhivago Red Partisans With ribbed water jacket 1965
The Blue Max British soldiers 1966
Cast a Giant Shadow Arab Legion soldiers 1966
If... 1968
A Professional Gun (Il mercenario) Franco Nero Sergei Kowalski 1968
A Mexican soldier
Oh! What a Lovely War seen in the opening credits 1969
Play Dirty mounted on a jeep 1969
100 Rifles Mexican soldiers, Indians 1969
No Blade Of Grass 1970
Too Late the Hero 1970
You Can't Win 'Em All Leo Gordon Bolek 1970
Nicholas and Alexandra Russian revolutionaries 1971
Aces High 1976
The Battleflag Austro-Hungarian soldiers 1977
A Bridge Too Far Irish Guards 1978
The Wild Geese Mercenaries 1978
Gandhi Mock-up weapon mounted on mock-up Rolls-Royce armored car 1982
Deal of the Century Seen in the Gundealer's Room 1983
Biggles: Adventures in Time 1986
The Lighthorsemen Australian troops 1987
Empire of the Sun with ribber water jacked, mounted in Rolls-Royce 40/50 h.p. Armoured Car i 1987
Operation Condor 1991
Chunuk Bair Anzac soldiers 1992
Land and Freedom Spanish Militia member 1995
Michael Collins British and Irish soldiers 1996
In Love and War An Italian soldier 1996
Deathwatch 2002
Innocent Voices Salvadoran Army soldier Mounted on armored car, without the barrel inside the water jacket 2004
Joyeux Noël A Scottish soldier 2005
The Wind That Shakes The Barley British Auxiliaries 2006
Attack on Leningrad 2007
Miracle at St. Anna Omar Benson Miller Pfc. Samuel Train mounted on Willys Jeep 2008
Tobruk Czech troops 2008
Passchendaele Canadian soldiers 2009
Beneath Hill 60 British soldiers 2010
Hemingway & Gellhorn U. S. Coast Guard 2012
The Last Stand Arnold Schwarzenegger Sheriff Ray Owens with ribber water jacked 2013
Gallipoli: End of the Road Australian soldiers with ribber water jacked 2013
The Siege of Jadotville Jamie Dornan Commander. Patrick Quinlan With ribbed water jacket 2016
Deadpool 2 With ribbed water jacket 2018
Tolkien A British soldier With ribbed water jacket 2019

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
Combat! British soldiers (1964-1965)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Season 1 Government troops (1962-1967)
The State Border: Film 2 Russian soldiers 1980
Bergerac Seen in museum; supposedly a replica; "Late for a Funeral" (S01E08) 1981
20th of December (20-e dekabrya) British soldiers Seen in documentary footage; on AA mounting 1982
Reilly: Ace of Spies 1984
The Cowra Breakout Australian soldiers 1984
Anzacs 1985
Journey's End British soldiers 1988
Tales from the Crypt U.S. Army troops "Yellow" (S3E14) 1991
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Yellow Iris Argentinian troops Mounted on armoured car 1993
All the King's Men Jo Stone-Fewings Lieutenant Alec Beck 1999
Foyle's War - Season 2 British soldiers "Fifty Ships" (S2E1) 2003
Hitler: The Rise of Evil Freikorp soldiers 2003
Doctor Who (New Series) Grammar school students 2005 -
Atonement British soldiers 2007
Midsomer Murders George Cole Lionel Hicks "Shot at Dawn" (S11E01) 2008
Deadliest Warrior 2009
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 10 Take My Life, Pleas (S10E20) 2009
Parer's War Australian Commandos 2014
Deadline Gallipoli ANZAC soldiers Episode 3, 4 2015
Rebellion British soldiers Episode 2 2016

Video Game

Game Title Appears as Note Release Date
Forgotten Hope 2 Stationary/mounted on Chevy 30WCT jeep and Universal Carrier 2005
Battlefield: 1918 2004
Civilization IV 2005
Company of Heroes modeled with a left receiver 2006
Mare Nostrum unusable 2008
Battlefield Heroes 2009
Men of War 2009
Company of Heroes 2 modeled with a left receiver 2013
The Great War 1918 2013
Sniper Elite III Unusable; mounted on British trucks 2014
Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 2014
Verdun unusable 2015
Assassin's Creed Syndicate unusable 2015
Battlefield 1 mounted on vehicles 2016
Day of Infamy "Vickers" Mk. VI or Mk. IV B with the bipods of an Mk. VII 2017
Post Scriptum Buildable emplacement 2018
Battlefield V "Vickers" 2018
Tannenberg unusable; mounted in armored cars 2019
Beyond The Wire "Vickers" 2021

Animation

Title Character Note Date
Atlantis: The Lost Empire 2001

Anime

Game Title Character Note Release Date
The Mystic Archives of Dantalian British soldiers 2011
Sword Art Online II Lion King Richie Episode 8 2014
Saga of Tanya the Evil Republic troops 2017
Sword Art Online: Alternative Gun Gale Online Lion King Richie Ep. "Fan Letter" 2018


Vickers .50 machine gun

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Vickers .50 machine gun - Essentially the Mk1 but chambered in .50 caliber. Mounted on Armored Vehicles and used as Navy AA until supplemented by the Besa and Oerlikon 20mm Cannon - 12.7x81mm

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Fighting Film Collection No. 4 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 4) Royal Navy personnel Mark III quad mounting; documentary footage 1941
Death Hunt Mounted on an RCAF bi-plane 1981

Animation

Title Character Note Date
Atlantis: The Lost Empire 2001

Video Game

Game Title Appears as Note Release Date
Forgotten Hope 2 Mounted on Vickers Light Tank Mk. VI B 2005
Call of Duty: WWII Mounted on Vickers Light Tank Mk. VI 2017


Vickers Aircraft Machine Gun

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Vickers Aircraft Machine Gun

The Vickers Aircraft Machine Gun appears in the following movies, TV shows, and video games:

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Verdun: Visions of History French pilot 1928
Hell's Angels 1930
The Lost Patrol 1934
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? German soldiers tripod mount 1966
Flyboys 2006
The 39 Steps mounted on Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 2008
The Red Baron Joseph Fiennes Captain Roy Brown 2008

Television

Title Actor Character Note Date
Father Brown Seen on a WWI photo of Sopwith Camel 2F.1 fighter plane; "The Arrow of Heaven" (Ep.12) 1974

Animation

Game Title Appears as Note Release Date
Archer - Season 2 "Double Deuce" (S02E05) 2011

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Battlefield 1 2016
Fortnite 2017
11-11: Memories Retold not usable, mounted on Spowith fighers 2018

Anime

Game Title Appears as Note Release Date
The Mystic Archives of Dantalian Hugh A. Disward Mounted on aircraft 2011
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure George Joestar II Mounted on a biplane; S1E24, "The Ties That Bind JoJo" 2012


Type 97 Aircraft Machine Gun

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Type 97 aircraft machine gun - 7.7x56mmR
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Type 97 aircraft machine gun with bipod - 7.7x56mmR

Japanese license-produced version of the Vickers Class E, used by the Navy; the Army also adopted a licensed copy of the Vickers Class E, the Type 89. In a textbook example of the IJN and IJA absolutely refusing to cooperate or share anything, the Navy's Type 97 remained chambered for .303 British (7.7x56mmR) while the Army developed the new semi-rimmed 7.7x58mmSR cartridge for the Type 89, and thus their ammo was not interchangeable. The Army's cartridge would later be developed into the rimless 7.7x58mm Arisaka cartridge.

The Japanese-produced versions of the MG 15 share the same relationship, with the Navy's Type 1 being chambered for 7.7x56mmR (.303) while the Army's Type 98 was rechambered for 7.7x58mmSR. The Navy's domestically-produced version of the Lewis Gun, the Type 92, also remained in 7.7x56mmR.

The Type 97 aircraft machine gun appears in the following films and video games:

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Japan's Longest Day Imperial Japanese Navy pilots Mounted in A6M Zeroes 1967
Midway Imperial Japanese Navy pilots Mounted in A6M Zeroes 1976
Pearl Harbor Imperial Japanese Navy pilots Mounted in A6M Zeroes 2001
Midway Imperial Japanese Navy pilots Mounted in A6M Zeroes 2019
The Eight Hundred Imperial Japanese Navy pilots Mounted in A5M Claudes 2020

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notation Release Date
Battlefield: 1942 mounted in A6M Zero fighters 2002
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun not usable, mounted in A6M Zero fighters 2003
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault not usable, mounted in A6M Zero fighters 2004
The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific not usable, mounted on A6M Zero fighters 2007
Call of Duty: World at War not usable, mounted on A6M Zero fighters 2008
Battlefield: 1943 mounted in A6M Zeros 2009
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 mounted in A6M Zeros 2010
Far Cry 3 not usable, mounted in crashed A6M Zero 2012
Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm not usable, mounted in crashed A6M Zero 2013
Battlefield V added with "War in the Pacific" (2019); mounted in A6M Zero 2018
Call of Duty: Vanguard Mounted in Aichi D3A dive bombers and A6M Zero fighters 2021

Anime

Game Title Character Note Release Date
The Cockpit mounted in Mitsubishi A6M fighters, ep. 2 1993
801 T.T.S. Airbats mounted in Zero combat, ep. 4 1994-1996
Strike Witches Mounted in A5M fighters 2008
Strike Witches 2 Mounted in A6M fighters and F1M floatplane 2010
Strike Witches: The Movie Mio Sakamoto Mounted in F1M floatplane 2012
The Wind Rises mounted in Mitsubishi A6M fighters 2013
Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow Mio Sakamoto Mounted in A6M fighter 2014-2015
Drifters mounted on Hiryu-based fighter/bomber aircraft 2016
Brave Witches Mounted in A6M fighters 2016-2017
The Magnificent Kotobuki mounted on "Kawanishi N1K1-j Shiden", "D4Y2 Suisei", A6M3 Zero and "A6M Zero" planes 2019