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
Vickers machine gun
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The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled.303 British machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The gun was operated by a three-man crew, but typically r
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…contemporary 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…
A Vickers machine gun mounted on a tripod. This example is at York Castle Museum.
A Vickers machine gun crew in action at the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, September 1917
The cockpit of a Bristol Scout biplane in 1916, showing a Vickers machine gun synchronised to fire through the propeller by an early Vickers-Challenger interrupter gear.
Vickers Mk. II* or III in naval anti-aircraft service during WWII in the Mediterranean