It turns out, Ukrainian forces really like the old-school Maxim machine gun. Or at least the Imperial Russian and later Soviet version of it, the PM1910. Although the Maxim machine gun was ...

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Hiram Maxim from Maine produced the first actual automatic machine gun. The basic design concepts are still the basis of modern machine guns—the recoil of a round being fired ejects the spent ...

Ukrainian forces have used Maxim machine guns, a weapon often associated with World War I, to mow down frontal assaults by Russian troops in the battle for Bakhmut. "It only works when there is a ...

aiming the machine guns and firing from the pickup. This is far from the first time that Ukraine has used the PM1910 Maxim gun in the war. Related stories Though both sides have employed the guns ...