Assertion: machine gun | /r/HasProperty | mounted in aircraft
Facets:
value: commonly
type: TEMPORAL
value: for strafing ground targets
type: PURPOSE
value: as defensive armament
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Machine guns were mounted in aircraft for the first time in World War I.
text: They are commonly mounted on fast attack vehicles such as technicals to provide heavy mobile firepower, armored vehicles such as tanks for engaging targets too small to justify use of the primary weaponry or too fast to effectively engage with it, and on aircraft as defensive armament or for strafing ground targets, though on fighter aircraft true machine guns have mostly been supplanted by large-caliber rotary guns.