5 Weapons That Killed Millions During World War One | The National Interest Blog:
"The enduring image of World War I is the machine gun, and usually a German machine gun. It's easy to see why. The Germans armed their troops with machine guns far more lavishly than their opponents.
And because they were mostly on the defensive in the West after 1914, they could emplace their machine guns in fortified positions and then mow down advancing Allied soldiers. The MG 08 was the standard German machine gun. A copy of Hiram Maxim's design from 1894, it was a clumsy weapon by modern standards. The early war version weighed 60 pounds for the machine gun alone, plus nearly a hundred pounds for the carriage and accessories. Even mounted on a handier tripod later in the war, it wasn't exactly a mobile weapon.
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