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The machine guns in WW1 had the firepower of 100 guns. It took 4 to 6 men to fire them. They had to be fire on flat ground. The British standard machine was the Vickers Machine gun. This gun had no cooling mechanism so it had to be cooled with water. It could fire up to 600 hundred rounds and had a range of 4,500 yards. The Vickers was a highly reliable gun that used a 250 fabric belt magazine.

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