The M1919 is an air-cooled, .30 caliber medium machine gun designed by John M. Browning as a lighter, air-cooled development of the water-cooled machine gun the United States had fielded in the First World War. Introduced in 1919, it weighed about 31 pounds in its common M1919A4 configuration with a 24 inch barrel, and variants included ground, vehicle-coaxial, and aircraft versions, the last chambered as the .30 AN/M2. American and allied forces used it through the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and other Cold War era conflicts, making it one of the most widely fielded machine guns of the twentieth century.
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What was a cook-off in the M1919?
A very hot barrel could ignite a chambered cartridge and fire it without the trigger being pulled.
A cook-off was a dangerous failure of the M1919 when it was very hot. The gun was an air-cooled version of the water-cooled M1917 and fired from a closed bolt, so after prolonged firing a cartridge waiting to be fired could rest in a red-hot barrel. The propellant could then heat up to the point that it ignited and fired the cartridge on its own.
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The M1919 Browning is a .30 caliber medium machine gun
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The M1919 was an air-cooled development of the standard U.S. machine gun of World War I, the John M. Browning-designed water-cooled M1917.
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30 caliber medium machine gun that was widely used during the 20th century, especially during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War
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The M1919 Browning is a .30 caliber medium machine gun that was widely used during the 20th century, especially during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
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1919-present
- Used In: World War II, infobox wars field: 'World War II'
- Used In: Chinese Civil War, infobox wars field: 'Chinese Civil War'
- Used In: Korean War, infobox wars field: 'Korean War'
- Used In: First Indochina War, infobox wars field: 'First Indochina War'
- Used In: Vietnam War, infobox wars field: 'Vietnam War'
- Used In: Laotian Civil War, infobox wars field: 'Laotian Civil War'
- Used In: Cambodian Civil War, infobox wars field: 'Cambodian Civil War'
- Used In: South African Border War, infobox wars field: 'South African Border War'
- Used In: Iran-Iraq War, infobox wars field: 'Iran-Iraq War'
- Used In: Iraq War, infobox wars field: 'Iraq War'
Operated By: Royal Air Force, Wikipedia article text
The Browning .303 was used as the RAF and Fleet Air Arm (FAA) primary fixed forward firing aircraft armament before the war, both in synchronized mounts (firing through a spinning propeller) on pre-war biplane fighters (Gloster Gladiator, Hawker Fury).
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