Machine guns designed to be fixed in a wing or fuselage or flexibly mounted in an aircraft, including the Japanese Type 89 and Type 92, the German MG 17 and the Soviet PV-1. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as an aircraft, aerial or airborne machine gun. It excludes ground machine guns that were only adapted to aircraft later. Aircraft machine guns had to be light, fast-firing and synchronized with propellers or fixed in wings, so designs from Japan, Germany and the Soviet Union differ from the ground weapons they were derived from.
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Military Factory: Parabellum M1914 (MG14)
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Air-Cooled Aircraft Machine Gun
Military Factory: Vickers K (VGO)
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Medium Machine Gun / Aircraft-Vehicle Machine Gun
Wikipedia: MG 17 machine gun
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The MG 17 was a 7.92 mm machine gun produced by Rheinmetall-Borsig for use at fixed mountings in many World War II Luftwaffe aircraft, typically as forward-firing offensive armament.
Wikipedia: Type 89 machine gun
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The Type 89 machine gun refers to two unrelated Imperial Japanese Army aircraft machine guns.
Wikipedia: Type 92 machine gun
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The Type 92 7.7mm machine gun (九二式七粍七機銃, Kyūni-shiki nana-miri-nana kijū) was developed for aerial use for the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1932. The Type 92 is a light machine gun and not to be confused with the similarly named Type 92 heavy machine gun.
Wikipedia: PV-1 machine gun
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PV-1 (Pulemet Vozdushny, airborne machine gun, Russian: ПВ-1) is a Soviet air-cooled version of the Russian M1910 Maxim for mounting on aircraft.
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