152,050 in World War II 50,000 chambered in .30-06
Variants
See Variants
Specifications
Mass
28 lb (13 kg)
Length
50.5 in (1,283 mm)
Barrel length
26.5 in (673 mm)
Width
4.5 in (114 mm)
Cartridge
.303 British
.30-06 Springfield
7.92×57mm Mauser
7.62×54mmR
Action
Gas-operated long stroke gas piston, rotating open bolt
Rate of fire
500–600 rounds/min
Muzzle velocity
2,440 ft/s (744 m/s)
Effective firing range
880 yd (805 m)
Maximum firing range
3,500 yd (3,200 m)
Feed system
47- or 97-round pan magazine
Sights
Blade and tangent leaf
The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom,[3] and widely used by troops of the British Empire during the war. It had a distinctive barrel cooling shroud (containing a finned, aluminium breech-to-muzzle heat sink to cool the gun barrel) and top-mounted pan magazine. The Lewis served to the end of the Korean War, and was widely used as an aircraft machine gun during both World Wars, almost always with the cooling shroud removed, as air flow during flight offered sufficient cooling.
^Canfield, Bruce (October 2016). "1916: Guns On The Border". American Rifleman. National Rifle Association.
^"Mr. Kellaway's Statement. (Hansard, 24 June 1919)".
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Philip Charlton in 1941 to act as a substitute for the Bren and Lewisgun light machine guns which were in severely short supply at the time. The original...
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the starboard gun could fire straight ahead. The Female had five Lewisguns but no 6-pounders. The decision to standardise on the Lewisgun was due to the...
rifle caliber ammunition such as 8mm Mauser or .30-06 Springfield. The Lewisgun, which weighed 27 lb (12.3 kg), was commonly used with a 47-round drum...
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copied from the Lewisgun) and sheet metal and plastic construction were copied by the US Army when they developed the M60 machine gun. At the time of...
his platoon was stopped by machine-gun fire. Tandey crawled forward, located the gun position and with a Lewisgun team, silenced it. Reaching the canal...
Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife. It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis, and produced by Frank and Maurice King. The...
the "Automatic Rifle, Model 1915 (Chauchat)". The LewisGun was invented in 1911 by Isaac Newton Lewis and first mass-produced in Belgium in 1913 for the...
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single Lewisgun, it successively received 2- and then 4-gun Nash & Thompson turrets. Avro Lancaster (introduced 1942) – heavy bomber; 4-gun Nash & Thompson...
was sheathed in sheet metal. Huot copied the cooling system from the LewisGun, then standard in British Army service. It fed from a 25-round drum magazine...
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