Re: WWII MGs

That's long enough to hamburger anything soft and squishy down-range!

It makes me wonder why there aren't modern weapons with water-cooling
capability for use in static positions... or perhaps there are and I'm
showing my Ameri-centrism...

--Tim

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:45, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:37:03AM -0500, Ryan M Gill wrote:
> 
> >You can keep a vickers running four hours with a few good crews and 
> >enough ammo and water. You'll eat through barrels in the MG42 long 
> >before then.
> 
> I understand that the continuous-fire record for a Vickers is
something
> over a week. Yes, _continuous_ fire.
> 
> Roger
>