Editing Vickers machine gun (section)

===Variants===
{{Main|Vickers .50 machine gun}}
[[File:HMS London gun.jpg|thumb|right|A .5-inch Mk. III, four-gun anti-aircraft mount and its crew on the cruiser {{HMS|London|69|6}} in 1941]]
The larger calibre (half-inch) version of the Vickers was used on armoured fighting vehicles and naval vessels. The ''Gun, Machine, Vickers, .5-inch, Mk. II'' was used in tanks, the earlier Mark I having been the development model. This entered service in 1933 and was obsolete in 1944. Firing either single shot or automatic it had a pistol type trigger grip rather than the spades of the {{convert|0.303|in|mm|adj=on}} weapon.

The ''Gun, Machine, Vickers, .5-inch, Mk. III'' was used as an anti-aircraft gun on British ships.<ref name="vmg.org.uk">{{cite web |url=http://www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk/ |title=The Vickers Machine Gun |first=Richard E. |last=Fisher |website=Vickers Machine Gun Collection & Research Association |access-date=27 November 2014}}</ref> This variation was typically four guns mounted on a 360° rotating and (+80° to −10°) elevating housing. The belts were rolled into a spiral and placed in hoppers beside each gun. The heavy plain bullet weighed {{convert|1.3|oz|abbr=on}} and was good for {{convert|1500|yd|abbr=on}} range. Maximum rate of fire for the Mark III was about 700&nbsp;rpm from a 200-round belt carried in a drum.
They were fitted from the 1920s onwards, but in practical terms, proved of little use.
During the Second World War, the naval {{convert|0.5|in|mm|1|adj=on}} version was also mounted on power-operated turrets in smaller watercraft, such as [[Motor Gun Boat]]s and [[Motor Torpedo Boat]]s.

The Mark IV and V guns were improvements on the Mark II. Intended for [[Light tanks of the United Kingdom|British light tanks]], some were used during the war on mounts on trucks by the [[Long Range Desert Group]] in the [[North Africa Campaign]].<ref name="vmg.org.uk" />

The Vickers machine gun was produced, between the wars, as the '''vz.09 machine gun'''.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}