Maxim gun
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The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim. It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world.
Maxim machine gun at Georgian National Museum.
Air-cooled, Extra Light Maxim M1895.
Illustration of the Maxim Gun in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1905
A large-bore Maxim on the USS Vixen c. 1898
PM M1910
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The Pulyemyot Maksima M1910, or PM M1910, is a heavy machine gun based on the Maxim gun, that was used by the Imperial Russian Army, Navy and Air Service during World War I, then by the Red, White and
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…conflicts. The Maxim gun was greatly influential in the development of machine guns, and it has multiple variants and derivatives, such as the Vickers, PM M1910 and MG 08. Some are still in service to the present day, such as in the Russo-Ukrainian War. The Maxim gun featured one of the earliest recoil-operated…
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A M1910 with a raised Sokolov mounting
Ottoman soldiers with a captured Russian Maxim machine gun during WWI
Soviet Red Army military personnel with a Maxim M1910 machine gun, late 1920s and early 1930s