@ KennyR
"The German army knew its stuff when it came to warfare, the Americans just nicked the technology"
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Kenny, you know better than that. The Italians had sub-machine guns in 1915. (see
Villar Perosa) Even the Thompson sub-machine gun was years before the Germans. As for machine guns, see the Gatling gun from the American civil war era, or the Maxim from 1885. "In 1881 the American inventor, Hiram Maxim, visited the Paris Electrical Exhibition. While he was at the exhibition he met a man who told him: "If you wanted to make a lot of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other's throats with greater facility." "The success of the Maxim Machine-Gun inspired other inventors. The German Army's Maschinengewehr and the Russian Pulemyot Maxima were both based on Maxim's invention."
