The first recorded combat use of the M1918 BAR in World War I was on Sept. 12, 1918, during the opening phases of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, in the hands of Doughboys of the U.S. Army’s 79th ...

Designed in the early 1950s, the FN MAG incorporates many design features from earlier proven machine guns, including the locking mechanism of the M1918 BAR along with the feed system and the ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The U.S. M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, British Bren Gun, Vickers-Berthier Light Machine Gun, and German FG42 and StG44 paved the way for the development of ...

Dive into the history of the Tankgewehr M1918, the first anti-tank rifle developed during World War I. Designed in 1917 and mass-produced in 1918, this Mauser weapon was Germany’s answer to the ...

M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, and other European weapons like the French Chauchat. A pair of engineers working for Hotchkiss designed a unique automatic rifle around the turn of the century.

The original Browning BAR was the M1918, a fully automatic light machine gun in .30/06 that was developed during World War I for trench warfare but didn’t see extensive use by the U.S. military until ...