Show TYPES OF MACHINE GUNS hotchkis ss uses larger Ammu ammunition niton than the gat ng device the first machine gun of adv no note a was the gatling the original gatlin gath had ten barrels placed in a circle wit i A a breech mechanism lM so arranged thi th t by turning a crank these barrels wei wet e successively fired the cartridges b T ing pla cePin edin a small hopper situa situated ted on the top of the gun the hotchkiss was a similar gun having a similar arrangement of ba bar aels but a totally different form of f mechanism the hotchkiss however w v as i sed for a larger tyl tyne e of air munitions than the gatling ahe i 1 e french had thirty barrels barrel tb they ey m were ere all loaded at the same time e and all fired simultaneously the recoil was as so great that it had to be mounted in the same manner as a field piece on a heavy carriage requiring six horses the apparatus was ras clum sy difficult to operate and bad had a corn com ively slow rate of fire the Norden feldt gun consists of a series of barrels arranged side by side like organ pipes the Norden feldt gun generally has five barrels and the mechanism is worked by a lever the cart ridges falling down from a hopper on the top of the arm into position where the mechanism thrusts them into the barrel fres them and extracts the empty cae cace this gun is of great sim and for a time went rent into ex use |