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Maxim Gun

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:05.504Z

Recoil-operated, water-cooled, crew of four to six, and still shooting down cruise missiles over Kyiv in 2025. That last detail stopped me cold when I read it. As of 2022, Ukrainian troops have used original PM M1910 Maxims against Russian forces. On September 7, 2025, a volunteer using the call sign "Hrek" shot down a Kh-69 missile over Kyiv with one. A gun that filed its first patents in 1883 is still doing work. Next time someone at the counter tells you a design is "outdated," think abo...

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Maxim Gun

The Maxim Gun is a recoil-operated, water-cooled heavy machine gun invented in 1884 by Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim. It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world — meaning the operator needed only to hold the trigger and maintain the ammuniti

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