The Lewis gun was designed privately in the United States in 1911, but was not adopted there, it was instead adopted by Britain.
While the Lewis gun is most famous for its use in the first world war, it saw extensive use in the second world war as well, being the mainstay machine gun of the Commonwealth’s colonial units.
Some 150 000 Lewis guns were produced in the United States between 1940 and 1945, with two thirds chambered for standard 303. British.
The Lewis gun’s most recognisable feature is the top mounted rotating drum magazine, a feature later seen on Soviet DP machine guns as well.
Its drum magazine can hold 47 or 97 rounds of ammunition thus proveding excellent sustained fire at 600 rounds per minute.
Both the 47 and 97 round versions must be added to the allied tech tree to BR3 and BR5 respectively.
Lewis gun with 47 rounds magazine (already in game as a Soviet premium by the way).
Quite agree with this, It’s quite stupid the USSR has had the lewis gun for years as a premium but the Western Allies haven’t gotten it at all despite them being the ones that used them much more, as with the M3 halftrack. If these get added to the TT, Japan could get versions of the lewis gun called the Type 92 Machine gun. It was a copy of the Lewis gun used both by infantry and rear gunners in planes, where they often removed the big barrel shroud but generally kept for infantry, but it could still be removed to be visually distinct from the US ones, had an extended trigger guard similar to the late Type 14 Pistol’s, and was chambered in 7.7 x 58mm Arisaka, which was a Japanese copy of .303 British.
I agree they should have them, yes. But under no circumstance should they be TechTree. Just as Germany gets BARs for Premium and Battlepass, so should the allies get a BRIII high capacity Machine Gun. Otherwise you’re just making Allies overpowered because they could combine the movement speed from the BAR with the Firepower of the Lewis on every single soldier.
