47. Vickers Gas-Operated MG

Alongside them in that later role was the Vickers ‘K’ Gas-Operated guns that were developed in the 1930s as an aircraft observer’s gun, then used in the earliest of the Royal Air Force’s bombers, before the Browning .303 guns took over their role. They found their more recognisable home fitted to jeeps of the Special Air Service for the remainder of the war, with some limited use as a ground gun by Commandos and light anti-aircraft on some Armoured Fighting Vehicles. Their high rate of fire consumed ammunition at too great a rate for any other application.