Vickers

**Vickers K LMG**

Massive amounts of firepower
Weaknesses:
high high bulk
Description:
Super high ROF and stopping power LMG

## In game

* The Gunner Final weapon, the Allied Buzzsaw
* Can be bought in Classic for 7 TP.

This fearsome weapon is the second heaviest weapon in the game, though the performance of this LMG outweighs its cumbersome bulk. The range and max damage of this machine gun is the highest out of all the infantry machine guns available in the game. The Vickers also have a decent magazine capacity of 60 cartridges along side a good 20 bullets per burst fire. In the hands of a skilled Gunner, the Vickers can easily mow down wave of Germans as it can on keeping them pinned.

The downside of the Vickers K LMG is that it has a decent chance of jamming, ranging at 14% jam chance for every shot fired. The upside of this is that when your gunner finally unlocks the Vickers in Campaign mode, he would have enough exp to deal with the jams fairly quick. The other downside as mentioned earlier, the weapon is extremely heavy weighing at 29.8 bulk making your Gunner extremely slow. This can be an issue for commanders that prefer quick pace engagements.

## Real Life

The Vickers K also known as the "Vickers Gas Operated" (VGO) or "Vickers GO". With lighter moving parts and the VB locking design, the Vickers K had an adjustable rate of fire between 950 and 1,200 rounds per minute; faster than the German MG34. The weapon was adopted for British service as the VGO. It was test-flown with a large 300-round pan magazine, and beat the .303 Browning in reliability. However, the wide pan would have caused problems to accommodate, since it would have interfered with wing structures. When the belt-fed Browning Mark II was selected as the standard machine-gun armament for RAF aircraft, the VGO became redundant for the RAF. It continued to be used by the Fleet Air Arm until 1945.

Vickers GO No.2 Mk.1 Land Service:

Originally intended for RAF airfield defense units, these guns were remanufactured from original Vickers G.O. No.1 Mk.1 aircraft guns. A number of these ‘Vickers G.O. Land Service’ machine guns found their way to a variety of British commando and reconnaissance units which operated in Europe during 1944 and 1945. The Land variant has the spade grip replaced with a "semi bullpup" short stock at the rear and a pistol grip with trigger below the receiver. A short fore-end or a folding carrying handle are added below the gas cylinder, and a folding bipod is attached to the gas block. New iron sights are provided on folding bases.

The Long Range Desert Group was supplied with large numbers of the Vickers G.O. for use on its vehicles. They were used in single or custom built twin mountings. The Special Air Service adopted it for their hit and run tactics, mounting it in pairs on their jeeps. Over the years, it was assumed by some that the latter services took the phased-out VGO because they could obtain no other suitable machine guns but with its high rate of fire and low-friction locking design (which proved resistant to jams from sand), the LRDG and SAS found the G.O. markedly superior to either the .303 in (7.7 mm) water-cooled Vickers or the Bren gun. In a similar manner, the Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron of the Reconnaissance Corps mounted the VGO on jeeps when they were attached to the 1st Airborne Division during Operation Market-Garden in September 1944. Royal Marine and Army Commandos used the VGO for infantry support/squad automatic weapon briefly around D-Day.

## Trivia

The sprite for this weapon is so large it blocks the data block for the soldier in some spots.

## Related weapons

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Bren
M1919
MG42

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