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The busy guys over at Forgotten Weapons have got their hands on a pretty rare 1918 Farquhar-Hill semi-automatic rifle. This early self-loading rifle went through several iterations by the inventor, Major H J Farquhar-Hill, including an automatic version and one with a recoiling barrel. The gun adopted by the British in 1918 was a gas-operated rifle with a stationary barrel, but before production could gear up, the war ended and so did Britain's romance with the Farquhar-Hill. The rifle did find some use in the observer's seat in reconnaissance aircraft but that was about all. After the war, the rifle was redesigned into a light machine gun, but that didn't really go anywhere either.
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It's no secret that China is working hard to become the world's next superpower. Their military R&D is going full blast to achieve parity with the west. The Chinese have had no luck in obtaining attack helicopter technology from us or the Russians, even after repeated attempts over decades. They have brewed up their own version, and it looks like they are in the game. Available guns for the bird are their own 23mm design or they can be fit with a 30mm Russian gun. They have even reverse engineered a version of our Bushmaster M-242 chain gun! As far as missiles go, these choppers carry a Hellfire copycat for anti-armor and anti-helicopter ability.