Bangkok--2 Feb--Image Impact
Title: Machine Guns Channel: HISTORY on TrueVisions A23 and D18 Date & Time: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 7.00 p.m.
On this episode of Lock n’ Load, veteran warrior - Gunnery Sgt. R. Lee ‘Gunny’ Ermey takes the audience on a journey that looks at the engineering development of the machine gun from the first weapons used in the Civil War through to the technological masterpieces in use today. Some of the amazing moments from the episode feature ‘Gunny’ setting a car on fire with a machine gun from over 1000 feet away! He’ll also cut down a forest of timber with a Nazi Machine Gun and paint a picture, with a gun known as ‘the devil’s paintbrush!’ Some of the other weapons ‘Gunny’ demonstrates are the classic Gatling Gun, the Maxim Gun, the massive Browning M2 .50 cal and the electronically operated Mini-Gun. Not only will the audience see these weapons in action, but with cutting-edge 3D GFX they will go inside the weapons. To understand the mechanism, operation and evolution of the machine gun.