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| [[Wilfrid Hyde-White]] || Mr. Bridie
| [[Wilfrid Hyde-White]] || Mr. Bridie
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| ''[[100 Rifles]]'' || || Mexican soldiers, Indians ||  || 1969
| ''[[100 Rifles]]'' || || Mexican soldiers, Indians ||  || 1969
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| ''[[Companeros]]'' || [[Franco Nero]] || Yodlaf Peterson || A mockup || 1970
| ''[[Companeros]]'' || [[Franco Nero]] || Yodlaf Peterson || A mockup || 1970
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| ''[[Rebellion in Patagonia]]'' || || Argentinian soldiers || Argentine version || 1974
| ''[[Rebellion in Patagonia]]'' || || Argentinian soldiers || Argentine version || 1974
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| ''[[Breaker Morant]] ||[[Edward Woodward]] || Morant ||  || 1980
| ''[[Breaker Morant]] ||[[Edward Woodward]] || Morant ||  || 1980
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| ''[[Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows]]''|| || assassins || ||2011
| ''[[Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows]]''|| || assassins || ||2011
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| rowspan="2"|''[[Legend of Tarzan, The|The Legend of Tarzan]]'' || [[Samuel L. Jackson]] || George Washington Williams   || || rowspan="2"|2016
| rowspan="2"|''[[The Legend of Tarzan]]'' || [[Samuel L. Jackson]] || George Washington Williams || || rowspan="2"|2016
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|  || Belgian and  ''Force Publique'' soldiers ||
|  || Belgian and  ''Force Publique'' soldiers ||
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| ''[[The Big Parade]]'' || || German soldiers || Some mounted on a plane and other fitted with ''Patronenkasten'' 16 belt drum || 1925
| ''[[The Big Parade]]'' || || German soldiers || Some mounted on a plane and other fitted with ''Patronenkasten'' 16 belt drum || 1925
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|''[[Wings]] || || German soldiers || || 1927
| ''[[The Merry Widow (1925)|The Merry Widow]]'' || || || || 1925
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| ''[[Wings]] || || German soldiers || || 1927
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|''[[Four Sons]]'' || || German soldiers || || 1928
|''[[Four Sons]]'' || || German soldiers || || 1928
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|''[[Journey's End (1930)|Journey's End]]''||  ||German soldiers|| ||1930
|''[[Journey's End (1930)|Journey's End]]''||  ||German soldiers|| ||1930
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|''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)|All Quiet on the Western Front]] ||  || German soldiers ||   ||  1930
|''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)|All Quiet on the Western Front]] ||  || German soldiers || ||  1930
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|''[[Other Side, The|The Other Side]]''||  || German soldiers || ||1931
|''[[The Other Side]]''||  || German soldiers || ||1931
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| ''[[Shanghai Express]]'' ||  || Chinese Government and Rebel troops ||  || 1932
| ''[[Shanghai Express]]'' ||  || Chinese Government and Rebel troops ||  || 1932
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| ''[[In the Name of the Fatherland (Vo imya Rodiny)]]'' || || German soldiers || || 1943
| ''[[In the Name of the Fatherland (Vo imya Rodiny)]]'' || || German soldiers || || 1943
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| ''[[Front, The (1943)|The Front]]'' || || || Seen on the battlefield || 1943
| ''[[The Front (1943)|The Front]]'' || || || Seen on the battlefield || 1943
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| rowspan=2|''[[Wait for Me (Zhdi menya)]]'' || [[Boris Blinov]] || Nikolai Yermolov || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|1943
| rowspan=2|''[[Wait for Me (Zhdi menya)]]'' || [[Boris Blinov]] || Nikolai Yermolov || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|1943
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| ''[[Duck, You Sucker!]] || [[Rod Steiger]]  || Juan Miranda  ||  || 1971  
| ''[[Duck, You Sucker!]] || [[Rod Steiger]]  || Juan Miranda  ||  || 1971  
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| ''[[Wind and the Lion, The|The Wind and the Lion]]|| [[Marc Zuber]] || Sultan of Morocco ||  || 1975
| ''[[The Wind and the Lion]]|| [[Marc Zuber]] || Sultan of Morocco ||  || 1975
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| ''[[March or Die]]'' ||  || French Foreign Legionnaires || || 1977
| ''[[March or Die]]'' ||  || French Foreign Legionnaires || || 1977
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| ''[[Rebellious "Orion" (Myatezhnyy "Orion")]]'' || || German sailors || || 1978
| ''[[Rebellious "Orion" (Myatezhnyy "Orion")]]'' || || German sailors || || 1978
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| ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]||   || German soldiers ||   || 1979
| ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]|'' | || German soldiers || || 1979
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| ''[[Gallipoli]] ||  || Turkish soldiers  ||  ||  1981
| ''[[Gallipoli]] ||  || Turkish soldiers  ||  ||  1981
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| ''[[The Living Daylights]] ||  ||  ||  ||  1987
| ''[[The Living Daylights]] ||  ||  ||  ||  1987
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|''[[Lighthorsemen, The|The Lighthorsemen]] ||  || Turkish soldiers ||  |||1987
|''[[The Lighthorsemen]] ||  || Turkish soldiers ||  |||1987
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| ''[[Ay, Carmela!]]'' || || Spanish Republicans || || 1990
| ''[[Ay, Carmela!]]'' || || Spanish Republicans || || 1990
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| ''[[Chunuk Bair]]'' || || Turkish soldiers ||  || 1992
| ''[[Chunuk Bair]]'' || || Turkish soldiers ||  || 1992
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|''[[Legends of the Fall]] ||   || German soldiers ||   || 1994
|''[[Legends of the Fall]] || || German soldiers || || 1994
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| ''[[Lost Battalion, The|The Lost Battalion]] ||   || German soldiers ||   || 2001
| ''[[The Lost Battalion]] || || German soldiers || || 2001
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| ''[[A Very Long Engagement]]'' ||  || || seen in German trench || 2004
| ''[[A Very Long Engagement]]'' ||  || || seen in German trench || 2004
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| rowspan=2|''[[Bridge, The (2008)|The Bridge]] || [[Alexander Becht]] || Ernst Scholten || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|2008
| rowspan=2|''[[The Bridge (2008)|The Bridge]] || [[Alexander Becht]] || Ernst Scholten || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|2008
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| || German soldiers
| || German soldiers
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| ''[[Blizzard of Souls]]'' || || German soldiers || || 2019
| ''[[Blizzard of Souls]]'' || || German soldiers || || 2019
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|''[[King's Man, The|The King's Man]]''||||German soldiers||||2021
|''[[The King's Man]]''||||German soldiers||||2021
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| ''[[Death on the Nile (2022)|Death on the Nile]]''||  || German soldiers ||  || 2022
| ''[[Death on the Nile (2022)|Death on the Nile]]''||  || German soldiers ||  || 2022
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| || German and Turkish troops
| || German and Turkish troops
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| ''[[Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Volume 2, The|The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]] ||[[Daniel Craig]]|| Captain Schiller || "Daredevils of the Desert" (S2E15) || 1992-1993
| ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Volume 2|The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]] ||[[Daniel Craig]]|| Captain Schiller || "Daredevils of the Desert" (S2E15) || 1992-1993
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| rowspan=2|''[[The Somme (2005)|The Somme]] || [[Adam Ganne]] || German soldier || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|2005
| rowspan=2|''[[The Somme (2005)|The Somme]] || [[Adam Ganne]] || German soldier || rowspan=2| || rowspan=2|2005
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| || German soldiers
| || German soldiers
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|''[[Somme – From Defeat to Victory, The|The Somme – From Defeat to Victory]]''||||German soldiers||  ||2006
|''[[The Somme – From Defeat to Victory]]''||||German soldiers||  ||2006
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| ''[[Verdun: Descent into Hell]]'' ||  || German and French soldiers || || 2006
| ''[[Verdun: Descent into Hell]]'' ||  || German and French soldiers || || 2006
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|''[[The Big Parade]] || || German soldiers ||  || 1925
|''[[The Big Parade]] || || German soldiers || ||  1925
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| ''[[The Merry Widow (1925)|The Merry Widow]]'' || || || || 1925
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| ''[[7th Heaven]]'' || || French soldiers || || 1927
| ''[[7th Heaven]]'' || || French soldiers || || 1927
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| || German soldiers
| || German soldiers
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|''[[Other Side, The|The Other Side]]''||  || German soldiers ||  ||1931
|''[[The Other Side]]''||  || German soldiers ||  ||1931
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|''[[Captured!]]'' || || German soldiers || || 1933
|''[[Captured!]]'' || || German soldiers || || 1933
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| ''[[Deal of the Century]]'' || || ||MG08/15 aircraft version; Seen in the Gundealer's Room|| 1983
| ''[[Deal of the Century]]'' || || ||MG08/15 aircraft version; Seen in the Gundealer's Room|| 1983
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| ''[[Biggles: Adventures in Time]] || ||   || MG08/15 air cooled  ||  1986
| ''[[Biggles: Adventures in Time]] || || || MG08/15 air cooled  ||  1986
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| ''[[Lighthorsemen, The|The Lighthorsemen]] ||  || German troops  || MG08/15 aircraft version ||  1987
| ''[[The Lighthorsemen]] ||  || German troops  || MG08/15 aircraft version ||  1987
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| ''[[Ararat]]'' ||  || Armenian resistance fighter ||  || 2002
| ''[[Ararat]]'' ||  || Armenian resistance fighter ||  || 2002
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| ''[[Journey's End (1988)|Journey's End]]'' || || German soldiers || || 1988
| ''[[Journey's End (1988)|Journey's End]]'' || || German soldiers || || 1988
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|''[[Somme – From Defeat to Victory, The|The Somme – From Defeat to Victory]]''||||German soldiers||  ||2006
|''[[The Somme – From Defeat to Victory]]''||||German soldiers||  ||2006
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|''[[Downton Abbey]]''|| || German soldiers || S2E05 ||2011
|''[[Downton Abbey]]''|| || German soldiers || S2E05 ||2011
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| ''[[Porco Rosso]]'' || || Aircraft version; mounted in Hansa Brandeburg CC aircrafts || 1992
| ''[[Porco Rosso]]'' || || Aircraft version; mounted in Hansa Brandeburg CC aircrafts || 1992
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| ''[[Mystic Archives of Dantalian, The|The Mystic Archives of Dantalian]]''|| || Mounted on Fokker Dr. I triplane || 2011
| ''[[The Mystic Archives of Dantalian]]''|| || Mounted on Fokker Dr. I triplane || 2011
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| || Red Army men and White Army soldiers || Mounted on BA-27 armored car
| || Red Army men and White Army soldiers || Mounted on BA-27 armored car
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| ''[[Thirteen (Trinadtsat), The|The Thirteen (Trinadtsat)]]|| || Red Army men  ||  || 1936
| ''[[The Thirteen (Trinadtsat)]]|| || Red Army men  ||  || 1936
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| ''[[The Sailors of Kronstadt (My iz Kronshtadta)]]'' || || Red and White troops || || 1936
| ''[[The Sailors of Kronstadt (My iz Kronshtadta)]]'' || || Red and White troops || || 1936
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| || Soviet Border Guard soldiers
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|rowspan=3|''[[Sea Outpost (Morskoy post), The|The Sea Outpost (Morskoy post)]]'' || [[Nikolai Ivakin]] || Petty officer Matveev ||rowspan=2| || rowspan=3|1938
|rowspan=3|''[[The Sea Outpost (Morskoy post)]]'' || [[Nikolai Ivakin]] || Petty officer Matveev ||rowspan=2| || rowspan=3|1938
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| || Soviet border guards
| || Soviet border guards
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| ''[[The Girl from the Legend (Devushka iz legendy)]]'' || [[Uktam Lukmanova]] || Fatima || || 1980
| ''[[The Girl from the Legend (Devushka iz legendy)]]'' || [[Uktam Lukmanova]] || Fatima || || 1980
|-
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|''[[Sixth (Shestoy), The|The Sixth (Shestoy)]] ||  ||  ||  || 1981
|''[[The Sixth (Shestoy)]] ||  ||  ||  || 1981
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| ''[[Keep Your Eyes Open! (Smotri v oba!)]]'' || [[Radner Muratov]] || Zakirov || || 1981
| ''[[Keep Your Eyes Open! (Smotri v oba!)]]'' || [[Radner Muratov]] || Zakirov || || 1981
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| || Red soldiers
| || Red soldiers
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| rowspan="2"|''[[State Border: Film 1, The|The State Border: Film 1]] ||  || Red Army soldiers ||  || rowspan="2"|1980
| rowspan="2"|''[[The State Border: Film 1]] ||  || Red Army soldiers ||  || rowspan="2"|1980
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|  || German soldiers || modified to resemble German [[MG08]]  
|  || German soldiers || modified to resemble German [[MG08]]  
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| ''[[State Border: Film 2, The|The State Border: Film 2]] ||  || Russian Border guards ||  || |1980
| ''[[The State Border: Film 2]] ||  || Russian Border guards ||  || |1980
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| ''[[The Meeting at High Snows (Vstrecha u vysokikh snegov)]]'' || || Red Army soldiers || || 1981
| ''[[The Meeting at High Snows (Vstrecha u vysokikh snegov)]]'' || || Red Army soldiers || || 1981
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| ''[[State Border: Film 3, The|The State Border: Film 3]] ||  || Russian Border guards ||  || |1982
| ''[[The State Border: Film 3]] ||  || Russian Border guards ||  || |1982
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| ''[[20th of December (20-e dekabrya)]]'' || || Red Guards || || 1982
| ''[[20th of December (20-e dekabrya)]]'' || || Red Guards || || 1982
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| ''[[Take Him Alive (Vzyat zhivym)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 1983
| ''[[Take Him Alive (Vzyat zhivym)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 1983
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| ''[[State Border: Film 4, The|The State Border: Film 4]] ||  || Russian Border guards and Turkestan Communist fighters ||  || |1984
| ''[[The State Border: Film 4]] ||  || Russian Border guards and Turkestan Communist fighters ||  || |1984
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| ''[[Makar the Pathfinder (Makar-sledopyt)]]'' || || Red and White troops || Also mounted on "British tank" || 1984
| ''[[Makar the Pathfinder (Makar-sledopyt)]]'' || || Red and White troops || Also mounted on "British tank" || 1984
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| ''[[Confrontation (Protivostoyanie)]]'' || || German soldiers || Visually modified to resemble [[MG08]] || 1985
| ''[[Confrontation (Protivostoyanie)]]'' || || German soldiers || Visually modified to resemble [[MG08]] || 1985
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| ''[[State Border: Film 5, The|The State Border: Film 5]] ||  || Russian Border guards || on wheel mount and M-4 AA quad mount  || 1986
| ''[[The State Border: Film 5]] ||  || Russian Border guards || on wheel mount and M-4 AA quad mount  || 1986
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| ''[[Special Operations Squad (Otryad spetsyalnogo naznacheniya)]]'' || || Soviet partisans || || 1987
| ''[[Special Operations Squad (Otryad spetsyalnogo naznacheniya)]]'' || || Soviet partisans || || 1987
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| ''[[A Good Lad (Slavnyy malyy)]]'' || || Soviet partisans || || 1943
| ''[[A Good Lad (Slavnyy malyy)]]'' || || Soviet partisans || || 1943
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| ''[[Marine Battalion (Morskoy batalion), The|The Marine Battalion (Morskoy batalion)]]'' || || Soviet infantry soldiers and marines || || 1944
| ''[[The Marine Battalion (Morskoy batalion)]]'' || || Soviet infantry soldiers and marines || || 1944
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| ''[[The Last Hill (Malakhov kurgan)]]'' || [[Nikolai Dorokhin]] || Pvt. Sizov || || 1944
| ''[[The Last Hill (Malakhov kurgan)]]'' || [[Nikolai Dorokhin]] || Pvt. Sizov || || 1944
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| ''[[Soldiers Were Going (Shli soldaty...)]]'' || || Provisional Government troops || || 1959
| ''[[Soldiers Were Going (Shli soldaty...)]]'' || || Provisional Government troops || || 1959
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| ''[[Green Wagon (Zelyonyy Furgon) (1959), The|The Green Wagon (Zelyonyy Furgon)]]'' || || Red Army soldiers || || 1959
| ''[[The Green Wagon (Zelyonyy Furgon) (1959)|The Green Wagon (Zelyonyy Furgon)]]'' || || Red Army soldiers || || 1959
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| ''[[The Golden Eshelon (Zolotoy eshelon)]]'' || || Red partisans, White Army soldiers || || 1959
| ''[[The Golden Eshelon (Zolotoy eshelon)]]'' || || Red partisans, White Army soldiers || || 1959
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| ''[[At Your Threshold (U Tvoyego Poroga)]]||  || Moscow militiamen ||  || 1964
| ''[[At Your Threshold (U Tvoyego Poroga)]]||  || Moscow militiamen ||  || 1964
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| ''[[Living and the Dead (Zhivye i Myortvye), The|The Living and the Dead (Zhivye i Myortvye)]]||  || Russian soldiers || || 1964
| ''[[The Living and the Dead (Zhivye i Myortvye)]]||  || Russian soldiers || || 1964
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| ''[[Attack and Retreat (Italiani brava gente)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 1964
| ''[[Attack and Retreat (Italiani brava gente)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 1964
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| ''[[Listen on the Other Side (Daisny tserguudee sonsotsgoo!)]]'' || || Soviet and Mongolian soldiers ||  || 1971
| ''[[Listen on the Other Side (Daisny tserguudee sonsotsgoo!)]]'' || || Soviet and Mongolian soldiers ||  || 1971
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| ''[[Property of Republic (Dostoyanie respubliki), The|The Property of Republic (Dostoyanie respubliki)]]'' || [[Oleg Tabakov]] || Makar || Mounted on ''tachanka'' cart || 1971
| ''[[The Property of Republic (Dostoyanie respubliki)]]'' || [[Oleg Tabakov]] || Makar || Mounted on ''tachanka'' cart || 1971
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| ''[[Hot Snow (Goryachiy Sneg), The|The Hot Snow (Goryachiy Sneg)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 1972
| ''[[The Hot Snow (Goryachiy Sneg)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 1972
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| ''[[Izhora Battalion (Izhorskiy batalyon)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 1972
| ''[[Izhora Battalion (Izhorskiy batalyon)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 1972
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| ''[[Battle of Sevastopol (Bitva za Sevastopol)]]'' ||  || Red Army soldiers ||  || 2015
| ''[[Battle of Sevastopol (Bitva za Sevastopol)]]'' ||  || Red Army soldiers ||  || 2015
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| ''[[Lost City of Z, The|The Lost City of Z]]'' ||   || German soldiers   || Anachronistic, standing for [[Maxim MG08]] || 2017
| ''[[The Lost City of Z]]'' || || German soldiers || Anachronistic, standing for [[Maxim MG08]] || 2017
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|''[[Unknown Soldier, The (2017)|The Unknown Soldier]]''|| || Soviet soldiers ||||2017
|''[[The Unknown Soldier (2017)|The Unknown Soldier]]''|| || Soviet soldiers ||||2017
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| ''[[Death of Stalin, The|The Death of Stalin]]'' || || NKVD soldiers || || 2017
| ''[[The Death of Stalin]]'' || || NKVD soldiers || || 2017
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| ''[[The Axe (Topor)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 2018
| ''[[The Axe (Topor)]]'' || || Soviet soldiers || || 2018
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| ''[[Shaolin (2011)|Shaolin]] ||  || || || 2011
| ''[[Shaolin (2011)|Shaolin]] ||  || || || 2011
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| ''[[Eight Hundred, The|The Eight Hundred]] || || Nationalist Chinese soldiers || AA Duty || 2020
| ''[[The Eight Hundred]] || || Nationalist Chinese soldiers || AA Duty || 2020
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Revision as of 09:59, 14 December 2023

The Maxim was the first true self-powered machine gun*, a recoil-operated fully-automatic belt-fed weapon produced by Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, an American-born inventor who moved to England at the age of 41.

Maxim's attention was drawn to guns in 1881 when a friend famously advised him "If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable those fool Europeans to cut each other's throats with greater facility." He produced his first gun in 1885, an extremely bulky device with a distinctive bulge at the rear for a rotary crank to reverse the movement of the block, and a unique pointer-operated fire regulator which allowed the weapon to fire at any speed from 1 RPM to 600. Both were eliminated in later designs for simplicity, the crank assembly is replaced with a toggle joint that was the forerunner of that used on the Borchardt C-93 and Luger P08.

Despite some skepticism from early buyers (the Tsar of Russia's officers, when the 1885's mechanism was explained to them, laughed and stated nobody could operate the crank 600 times a minute, while the King of Denmark, on being told how much each round cost, told Maxim one of his guns would bankrupt Denmark in half a day) the gun was an instant success and was adopted by many national militaries in a variety of variants and calibers. It saw combat from British use in The Gambia in 1888 to the end of the Second World War, eventually being supplanted by lighter and more efficient designs. British use led to a popular saying: "Whatever happens, we have got / The Maxim gun, and they have not." Larger versions of the Maxim were also used as anti-aircraft guns, with the most well-known examples being the British "pom-pom" guns.

Maxim's gun company was established with the help of the Vickers steel company of Great Britain and ultimately absorbed into it, joining with rival Nordenfeldt of Sweden in between; Albert Vickers would later produce his own redesigns of the Maxim, the Maxim-Vickers and later the Vickers Gun.

(*While a Swedish Army Lieutenant, D.H. Friberg, had patented a design for a recoil-operated firearm action using locking lugs similar to those used by many later automatic weapons (such as the Russian DP-28) in 1870, with early drawings for a weapon based on it dating back to 1882, Friberg's design was impractical due to rapid residue buildup from use of black powder, and it is unclear if any firing weapon was produced before Maxim's gun in 1885. Rudolf Henrik Kjellman latter refined Friberg's design to use Swiss 6.5x55mm smokeless powder cartridges in 1907, adding a bipod, water jacket, and forward grip and replacing Friberg's hopper feed with a detachable box magazine: this, the "Kjellman Light Machine Gun," was a commercial failure with only ten examples produced.)

The Maxim and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:


Maxim 1895

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Maxim 1895 on tripod - 7.92x57mm Mauser
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Maxim on tripod - .303 British.

Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Oktyabr) Red Guards Russian M1905 1927
Carry on, Sergeant! Canadian soldiers 1928
North West Frontier S.M. Asgaralli Havildar 1959
Herbert Lom Van Layden
Kenneth More Capt. Scott
Wilfrid Hyde-White Mr. Bridie
100 Rifles Mexican soldiers, Indians 1969
Companeros Franco Nero Yodlaf Peterson A mockup 1970
Rebellion in Patagonia Argentinian soldiers Argentine version 1974
Breaker Morant Edward Woodward Morant 1980
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows assassins 2011
The Legend of Tarzan Samuel L. Jackson George Washington Williams 2016
Belgian and Force Publique soldiers

Television

Show Title / Episode Actor Character Note Air Date
Born by Revolution: Hard Autumn (Rozhdyonnaya revolyutsiey: Trudnaya osen) Red Guards Russian M1905 1974
Rough Riders Chris Noth Wadsworth Argentine Maxim 1997
Spanish troops
Lock 'n Load With R. Lee Ermey R. Lee Ermey Himself Ep. 1: Machine Gun Educations 2009
Ripper Street Ian McElhinney Theodore Swift "The Peace of Edmund Reid" (S3E08) 2014

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notation Release Date
Team Fortress 2 Unusable weapon; cut from game 2007
Red Dead Redemption II "Maxim Gun" Mounted on Browning M1917 tripod 2018

Anime

Title Character Note Date
Girls und Panzer: der Film mounted on 1889 quadricycle 2015
Golden Kamuy - Season 1 Russian soldiers Ep. Wenkamuy" and in "Complication" 2018
Tsurumi Ep. "Gleaming"
Golden Kamuy - Season 2 Abashiri Prison security forces Ep. "Overwhelmed" 2018
Golden Kamuy (OVA) Kiichirou Wakayama Ep. "Monster" 2018 - 2020


Maxim MG08

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Maxim MG08 on Schlittenlafette 08 mount - 7.92x57mm Mauser

The German version of the Maxim gun, adopted in 1908 and classified MG'08 accordingly. Usually seen on its unique four-legged 'sledge' mounting which could be folded up to drag the gun across the ground.

The reports and experiences of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) also led to the construction of machine guns in Germany being promoted. Due to some changes and improvements to the MG 01 and the Schlittenlafette 03 (Schlitten 03), the MG 08 with the Schlittenlafette 08 was created in 1908, which became the standard heavy machine gun of the German Army in World War I. The weapon was considerably lighter than its predecessor models and, when filled with four liters of cooling water, weighed 24 kg. The MG 08 was designed for direct shooting, i.e. for shooting at targets visible to the shooter, equipped with a sight from 400 to 2000m with a division of 100m. A target optic (Zielfernrohr ZF 12) with the same division could be placed on the left side of the housing.

The MG 08 was initially only built by the DWM company (Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken AG), and the Spandau rifle factory was also producing the machine gun as early as 1911. When the war broke out, the number of MG 08s in Germany was still very low with 4918 weapons. Soon after the outbreak of World War I, the efficiency of the machine guns showed through the great firepower. The MG 08 was manufactured in ever-increasing numbers during the entire duration of the First World War without any major changes and has proven itself to be extremely reliable. Some improvements were made to the MG 08 during and after World War I, for example, a holder was riveted to the right side of the housing, into which the drum holder of the MG 08/15 could be inserted to hold the 100 round cartridge drum of the MG 08 / 15 to use. In 1916 the Dreifuss 16 was introduced for the MG 08 and it is a replica of the tripod mount, as it was made by DWM for the Modell 1909 (export model).

The MG 08 was the only heavy machine gun in the German army until 1936 and was then replaced by the introduction of the MG34 as a new standard machine gun. However, the MG 08 remained in use in the secondary war theaters of World War II until the end of 1945.

Specifications

  • Weight, Gun Only: 58lb 5oz (26.44kg)
  • Weight, On 'Sledge' Mounting: 136lb 11oz (62kg)
  • O/A Length: 46.25in (1175mm)
  • Barrel length: 28.3 in (719 mm)
  • Cartridge: 7.92x57mm Mauser

Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
Hearts of the World German soldiers 1918
The Big Parade German soldiers Some mounted on a plane and other fitted with Patronenkasten 16 belt drum 1925
The Merry Widow 1925
Wings German soldiers 1927
Four Sons German soldiers 1928
Verdun: Visions of History German soldiers 1928
Carry on, Sergeant! German soldiers 1928
Journey's End German soldiers 1930
All Quiet on the Western Front German soldiers 1930
The Other Side German soldiers 1931
Shanghai Express Chinese Government and Rebel troops 1932
Wooden Crosses German soldiers 1932
Dawn British sailors 1933
My Motherland (Moya Rodina) 1933
Heroes for Sale German soldiers 1933
Captured! Leslie Howard Capt. Fred Allison 1933
German prison guards
Shock Troop German soldiers 1934
The World Moves On German soldiers footage from Wooden Crosses 1934
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer 1935
The General Died at Dawn General Yang's troops 1936
Secret Agent German soldiers 1936
The Road to Glory German soldiers footage from Wooden Crosses 1936
They Gave Him a Gun German soldiers 1937
La Grande Illusion German Prison guards 1937
Knight Without Armour White and Red soldiers 1937
The Fighting 69th German soldiers 1940
Forty Thousand Horsemen Turkish soldiers 1940
Sergeant York German soldiers 1941
Fighting Film Collection No. 9 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 9) German soldiers 1942
Fighting Film Collection No. 11 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 11) Emmanuil Geller Tryasku 1942
German soldiers
How the Steel Was Tempered (Kak zakalyalas stal) German Imperial troops 1942
Sahara German soldiers Mounted on a halftrack 1943
In the Name of the Fatherland (Vo imya Rodiny) German soldiers 1943
The Front Seen on the battlefield 1943
Wait for Me (Zhdi menya) Boris Blinov Nikolai Yermolov 1943
Ekaterina Sipavina Pasha
The Battle of the Rails (La bataille du rail) German soldiers 1946
Zigmund Kolosovskiy Seen among Polish partisans weapons; also in footage 1946
Ernst Thälmann - Son of his Class German soldiers and Communists 1954
Ernst Thälmann - Leader of his Class 1955
Five Branded Women German troops 1960
Taxi for Tobruk (Un taxi pour Tobrouk) Germán Cobos Jean Ramirez Mounted on jeep 1961
The Taste of Violence (Le goût de la violence) Government troops and guerrillas On Schwarzlose 07/12 tripods 1961
The Longest Day German soldiers 1962
The Train German soldiers 1964
Is Paris Burning? German soldiers 1966
Shock Troops (Un homme de trop) Patrick Préjean Lecocq 1967
Charles Vanel Passevin
I Was Nineteen (Ich war neunzehn) German soldiers 1968
Bonnot's Gang (La bande à Bonnot) French Zouaves 1968
How I Unleashed World War II German soldiers 1970
Duck, You Sucker! Rod Steiger Juan Miranda 1971
The Wind and the Lion Marc Zuber Sultan of Morocco 1975
March or Die French Foreign Legionnaires 1977
Death is My Trade Uncredited Becker 1977
Hermann Günther Schmitz
Kai Taschner Younger Franz Lang
The Battleflag Austro-Hungarian soldiers 1977
Rebellious "Orion" (Myatezhnyy "Orion") German sailors 1978
All Quiet on the Western Front| | German soldiers 1979
Gallipoli Turkish soldiers 1981
The Ace of Aces (L'As des as) German soldiers 1982
The Living Daylights 1987
The Lighthorsemen Turkish soldiers 1987
Ay, Carmela! Spanish Republicans 1990
Chunuk Bair Turkish soldiers 1992
Legends of the Fall German soldiers 1994
The Lost Battalion German soldiers 2001
A Very Long Engagement seen in German trench 2004
The Bridge Alexander Becht Ernst Scholten 2008
German soldiers
Guard No. 47 Austro-Hungarian soldiers 2008
The Red Baron German soldiers 2008
Passchendaele German soldiers with Panzermantel and shield 2009
Dnieper Line: Love and War German soldiers 2009
The Warrior's Way The Colonel's men 2010
Beneath Hill 60 German soldiers 2010
Battle of Warsaw 1920 Natasza Urbanska Ola Raniewska 2011
Polish soldiers
Day of the Falcon (Or noir) Nasib's oilfield guards 2011
War Horse German troops 2011
Emden Men German Sailors 2012
Stalingrad Russian sailors mounted on a boat 2013
The Water Diviner Greek and Turkish soldiers 2014
Blizzard of Souls German soldiers 2019
The King's Man German soldiers 2021
Death on the Nile German soldiers 2022
All Quiet on the Western Front German and French soldiers 2022

Television

Show Title / Episode Actor Character Note Air Date
Front Without Mercy (Front ohne Gnade) Seen among Italian troops; Ep.5 1984
Anzacs Mark Hembrow Dick Baker 1985
German and Turkish troops
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Daniel Craig Captain Schiller "Daredevils of the Desert" (S2E15) 1992-1993
The Somme Adam Ganne German soldier 2005
German soldiers
The Somme – From Defeat to Victory German soldiers 2006
Verdun: Descent into Hell German and French soldiers 2006
The Caravan of Sailors German sailors 2006
14 - Diaries of the Great War German soldiers Episode 8 2014
Gallipoli Turkish troops 2015
Deadline Gallipoli Turkish soldiers Episode 2 2015
Glitch S1E05 "The Impossible Triangle" 2015
Les Fusillés German soldiers 2015
And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) Austro-Hungarian soldiers On Dreifuss 16 tripod and on sledge mounted 2015
Demon of the Revolution (Demon revolyutsii) German soldiers Seen in documentary footage 2017
Babylon Berlin - Season 1 2017
Babylon Berlin - Season 2‎ German soldiers 2017

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
BloodRayne "Kaxik 08" 2002
Rise of Nations Used by the Machine Gun unit 2003
Battlefield: 1918 2004
Darkest of Days "Machinegun" With Maxim M1910/30's barrel jacket 2009
7554 "MG 08" 2011
The Great War 1918 "MG 08" 2013
Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 "MG08" 2015
Battlefield 1 Mounted on A7V Tanks 2016
Tannenberg "Maschinengewehr 08" With shield and Panzermantel 2019
Land of War: The Beginning "Wz. 08 Maxim" Polish variant 2021
Beyond The Wire "Maschinengewehr 08" With Panzermantel 2022
Isonzo "Maschinengewehr 08" Introduced in Caporetto expansion 2022

Anime

Title Characters Notation Date
Porco Rosso Porco Custom lMG 08 1992
Air Pirate Ground version
Girls und Panzer Mounted on German A7V tank 2012
Suisei no Gargantia Pirates incorrectly equipped with a top-mounted magazine together with a belt box 2013
Saga of Tanya the Evil Empire soldiers with disk-shaped muzzle from Chinese Type 24 Maxim 2017
Golden Kamuy - Season 1 Ep. "Grim Reaper" 2018
Saga of Tanya the Evil: The Movie Empire soldiers with disk-shaped muzzle from Chinese Type 24 Maxim 2019

Animation

Title Voice Actor Characters Notation Date
Love, Death & Robots - Season 1 mounted on the A7V heavy tank in "Alternate Histories" (S1E17) 2019


Maxim MG 08/15

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Maxim MG08/15 - 7.92x57mm Mauser
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Maxim LMG 08/15 "Spandau" - 7.92x57mm Mauser

Starting in, 1915 the MG 08/15 was developed to create a weapon faster to manufacture than the Madsen machine gun for the LMG role. Another goal was to increase portability of the weapon to support storm trooper tactics. To this end, the boxy profile of the original MG 08 receiver was shortened and shrunk where possible, resulting in a distinct "step" at the top of the receiver, and the cooling jacket's diameter was reduced to to 92.5 mm (3.64 in). In the summer of 1917, the MG 08/15, designated leichtes, was issued to the troops. The new variant was designed to be taken along with assault troops rather than left back in the trenches. Too many infantry attacks failed due to lack of machine gun support and too many machine guns were lost because they could not be dismantled in time. Therefore, the machine gun was now designed as a light machine gun with a bipod and shoulder stock. Each company initially received two MG 08/15s, later four. In early 1918, the number was increased to six. For the transport of the MG 08/15 and accompanying ammunition, companies were assigned two field cars.

According to the Treaty of Versailles, the Reichswehr only had 1,926 (+4% reserve) machine guns of all types approved. However, a secret inventory of about 12,000 machine guns existed in 1927. Through the 1920s - 1930s, machine guns were improved and updated in a variety of ways, specifically: anti-aircraft sights and mounting brackets, oiler bottle in the stock, additional mount for bipod at the muzzle, new water drain and fill plugs, modified drum hanger bracket, feed block for both cloth Maxim belts and metal MG34 belts, leather pistol grip cover, and top cover locking latch.

After the renaming of the Reichswehr in Wehrmacht, the MG 08 and MG 08/15 were phased out in 1936, starting with the active infantry divisions, by the MG34. The MG 08/15, MG 08/18, and MG 08, as well as their machine gun wagons and handcars, were handed over to the reserve or Landwehr infantry divisions to be filled up in the mobilization case with reservists. Occasionally it was used until 1941 on the Eastern Front.

Trivia: By far the most common German machine gun of WWI with a total production of around 130,000, it was so ubiquitous that "08/15" (pronounced Null-acht-fünfzehn) is still used in German to refer to something mundane.

Specifications

  • Weight: 31lb (14.06kg) empty, 46lb (20.8kg) with water jacket filled
  • O/A Length: 57.0in (1448mm)
  • Barrel length: 28.3 in (719 mm)
  • Cartridge: 7.92x57mm Mauser
  • Magazine: 100- or 250-round cloth belt carried in an ammo chest or 100-round cloth belt loaded in a metal Patronenkasten 16 belt carrier drum. It feeds from the right and ejects the spent brass from the left.

Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
The Big Parade German soldiers 1925
The Merry Widow 1925
7th Heaven French soldiers 1927
Wings A German soldier 1927
Two Arabian Knights German soldiers 1927
All Quiet on the Western Front A German soldier 1930
Westfront 1918 Gustav Diessl Karl 1930
German soldiers
Doughboys Buster Keaton Elmer J. Stuyvesant Jr. 1930
German soldiers
The Other Side German soldiers 1931
Captured! German soldiers 1933
Shock Troop German soldiers 1934
Hell's Angels Ben Lyon Monte Rutledge MG08/15 aircraft version 1930
La Bandera Jean Gabin Pierre Gilieth 1935
The General Died at Dawn General Yang's troops 1936
Knight Without Armour White Army soldiers 1937
The Fighting 69th German soldiers 1940
Forty Thousand Horsemen German and Turkish soldiers 1940
Native Shores (Rodnye berega) German soldiers 1930s modification with a fore mounted bipod 1943
Ernst Thälmann - Son of his Class German soldiers 1930s modification with a fore mounted bipod 1954
Signum Laudis Vítezslav Jandák Pvt. Müller 1980
Zdenek Dusek Pvt. Kostka
High Road To China Chinese Warlord's soldiers 1983
Deal of the Century MG08/15 aircraft version; Seen in the Gundealer's Room 1983
Biggles: Adventures in Time MG08/15 air cooled 1986
The Lighthorsemen German troops MG08/15 aircraft version 1987
Ararat Armenian resistance fighter 2002
Flyboys German pilot MG08/15 aircraft version 2006
The Red Baron Matthias Schweighöfer Manfred von Richthofen air cooled, twin mounted on Fokker Dr.I 2008
German soldiers
Battle of Warsaw 1920 Polish pilot MG08/15 aircraft version 2011
Rear-gunner MG08/15 air-cooled
Day of the Falcon (Or noir) Nasib's pilot MG08/15 aircraft version 2011
Batalion seen in the Russian trench 2015
Wilson City Hungarian solders Fitted with drum magazine 2015
Wonder Woman German solders Fitted with drum magazine 2017
Blizzard of Souls A German soldier 2019
1917 Aircraft version; mounted on Albatross biplane 2019

Television

Show Title / Episode Actor Character Note Air Date
Waves of the Black Sea (Volny Chyornogo morya) Russian Imperial soldiers and revolutionaries Film 1; mounted on tripod 1976
Shattered Sky (Raskolotoe nebo) Aristarkh Livanov Daniil Shchepkin Mounted on airplane 1979
Anzacs German and Australian troops 1985
Journey's End German soldiers 1988
The Somme – From Defeat to Victory German soldiers 2006
Downton Abbey German soldiers S2E05 2011
Trotsky Red Army men 2017


Anime

Title Character Note Date
Castle in the Sky hanging on a wall 1986
Porco Rosso Aircraft version; mounted in Hansa Brandeburg CC aircrafts 1992
The Mystic Archives of Dantalian Mounted on Fokker Dr. I triplane 2011

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notation Release Date
Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi "Machine Gun" 2003
Battlefield: 1918 2004
NecroVisioN "MG 08/15" 2009
The Great War 1918 2013
Call of Duty: Black Ops II "MG08/15" Included in the Apocalypse DLC 2013
Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 "MG 08/15" 2015
Verdun "Maschinengewehr 08/15" 2015
Call of Duty: Black Ops III "MG-08/15" Included in the Zombies Chronicles DLC 2015
Battlefield 1 "MG 08/15" 2016
Screaming Steel: 1914-1918 "MG 08/15" 2018
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Zweihänder Included in the Zombies Chronicles DLC 2018
Battlefield V unusable 2018
11-11: Memories Retold 2018
Beyond The Wire "MG 08/15" 2022
Isonzo "Maschinengewehr 08/15" Introduced in Caporetto expansion 2022


Maxim MG08/18

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Maxim MG08/18 - 7.92x57mm Mauser

The rare MG08/18 was an experimental heavy-barrel air-cooled version under testing at the very end of the WW1. The demand for further weight savings compared to the MG 08/15 as well as the fact that water-cooled weapons always needed a supply of water and the risk of cooling water freezing in winter was very high, led to the development of the air-cooled, lighter Maxim. The MG 08/18 was almost identical to the MG 08/15, but instead of the cooling water jacket only had a perforated jacket tube with a diameter of 37mm around the barrel, which was provided with a handle and a hinged front sight. The jacket tube had a clamp with a bayonet lock to accommodate the fork support (bipod) at the rear. The major disadvantage was that a hot-shot barrel was only possible by opening the rear wall of the lockbox and dismantling the moving parts. This was due to the typical Maxim design and a change of barrel was not planned in the field. The MG 08/18 was only produced in small numbers and was still used like the MG 08/15 after the First World War.

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notation Release Date
Verdun "Maschinengewehr 08/18" 2015
Battlefield 1 "lMG 08/18" "Apocalypse" DLC 2016


Maxim M1910

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Maxim M1910 with 'Sokolov' wheel mount, w/o shield - 7.62x54mmR
Maxim M1910 with 'Sokolov' wheel mount & shield - 7.62x54mmR
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Maxim M1910, simplified version with smooth water jacket - 7.62x54mmR

Russian-adopted version of the Maxim, adopted originally in 1905 with a bronze water-jacket but modified and standardized to a corrugated-type jacket in 1910. A simplified version with smooth water jacket was adopted in October 1914 and manufactured until the late 1920s. Usually seen on the 'Sokolov' mounting which was wheeled with a small turntable.

Specifications

  • Weight, Gun Only: 52lb 8oz (23.8kg)
  • Weight, On 'Sokolov' Mounting: 99lb 11oz (45.22kg) (Including Shield)
  • O/A Length: 43.6in (1107mm)
  • Barrel length: 28.4 in (721 mm)
  • Cartridge: 7.62x54mm-R, early prototypes chambered for Berdan 10.14 mm

Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks Viktor Latyshevskiy Russian criminal 1924
Bennie the Howl (Benya Krik) Benya Krik's men, Tsysin's armored car 1926
The End of St. Petersburg Bolshevik rebels 1927
Young Eagles (Noored kotkad) Estonian soldiers 1927
October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Oktyabr) Red Guards and Provisional Government troops On Sokolov and Kolesnikov mounts, and armored cars 1927
Oktyabryukhov and Dekabryukhov Red Guards 1928
Arsenal Semyon Svashenko Timosha 1929
Ukrainians and Bolsheviks
Fragment of an Empire (Oblomok imperii) Fyodor Nikitin Filimonov 1929
Mutiny (Myatezh) Bolsheviks and mutineers 1929
Sniper Red Army soldiers, enemy soldiers 1931
Nail in the Boot (Gvozd v sapoge) Red Army soldiers On Sokolov mount and mounted on armoured train 1932
Horizon (Gorizont) Rebellious soldiers Mounted on Austin armoured car 1932
My Motherland (Moya Rodina) Bari Haydarov Wang Li Chang 1933
Red and Kuomintang Armies soldiers
The First Platoon (Pervyy vzvod) Russian officers and soldiers 1933
Outskirts (Okraina) German troops 1933
Revolt of the Fishermen (Vosstaniye rybakov) Soldiers, rebels 1934
Chapaev Boris Babochkin Chapaev 1934
Leonid Kmit Petka
Varvara Myasnikova Anka
Red Army men and White Army soldiers Mounted on BA-27 armored car
The Thirteen (Trinadtsat) Red Army men 1936
The Sailors of Kronstadt (My iz Kronshtadta) Red and White troops 1936
Fedka Aleksandr Zasorin Vasya Sorokin 1937
Timofey Remizov Mishka
Nikolay Kat-Oglu Fedka Trofimov
Red and White troops On Sokolov mounting and on a tripod
Ski Battalion (Za Sovetskuyu Rodinu) Ivan Chuvelyov Arttu 1937
Soviet and Finnish soldiers
Lenin in October (Lenin v oktyabre) Red Guards and counter-revolutioneers 1937
Friends from the Gypsy Camp (Druzya iz tabora) Sergey Nikonov Rozhkov 1938
Vladimir Dorofeyev Kuzmich
Red Army men
The Defense of Volochayevsk Partisans, White Army soldiers Imperial Japanese Army 1938
Soviet Border (Na granitse) Nikolay Vinogradov Yerofey Vlasov 1938
Soviet Border Guard soldiers
The Sea Outpost (Morskoy post) Nikolai Ivakin Petty officer Matveev 1938
Soviet border guards
Japanese marines Disguised as German MG08
The Man with the Rifle (Chelovek s ruzhyom) Red Guards 1938
Red Tanks (Tankisty) German soldiers Standing for MG08 1939
Shchors Ivan Skuratov Vasily Bozhenko 1939
Red soldiers
Lenin in 1918 (Lenin v 1918 godu) Chekists 1939
Disappearance of "Oryol" (Gibel "Orla") Seen on the pier 1940
In the Rear of the Enemy (V tylu vraga) Soviet and Finnish troops 1941
Fighting Film Collection No. 1 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 1) Red Army soldiers Footage from Shchors 1941
Fighting Film Collection No. 2 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 2) Soviet border guards 1941
Fighting Film Collection No. 4 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 4) Red Army soldiers 1941
Aleksandr Parkhomenko Red Army soldiers, Anarchists 1942
We Will Come Back (Sekretar raykoma) Anatoliy Alekseev Smolyak 1942
Viktor Kulakov Orlov
Kotovsky Red soldiers, Imperial German soldiers 1942
Fighting Film Collection No. 8 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 8) In weapon cache 1942
Fighting Film Collection No. 11 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 11) German soldiers 1942
Fighting Film Collection No. 12 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 12) Soviet soldiers 1942
How the Steel Was Tempered (Kak zakalyalas stal) Red Guards 1942
The Bridge (Most) Soviet soldiers 1942
Invincible (Nepobedimye) Soviet soldiers 1943
In the Name of the Fatherland (Vo imya Rodiny) Soviet soldiers 1943
The New Adventures of Schweik (Novye pokhozhdeniya Schweika) Yugoslavian partisans On a nonstandard tripod 1943
Ivan Nikulin: Russian Sailor (Ivan Nikulin - Russkiy Matros) German soldiers 1944
Golden Path (Oqros biliki) Fyodor Ishchenko Rybak 1945
The Secret Brigade (Konstantin Zaslonov) Soviet partisans 1949
The Unforgettable Year 1919 (Nezabyvaemyy 1919 god) Red sailors 1951
Ernst Thälmann - Son of his Class 1954
The Crash of the Emirate (Krushenie emirata) Georgiy Yumatov Ignat 1955
Red Army men, Bukhara soldiers, uprising peasants
Soldiers (Soldaty) Russian soldiers 1956
The Poet Red and White troops 1957
Hostile Whirlwinds (Vikhri vrazhdebnye) Rebels 1957
Oleko Dundich Red Army soldiers 1958
Ballad of a Soldier Russian soldier 1959
Avalanche from the Mountains (Lavina s gor) Cossacks 1959
Fortress on Wheels (Krepost na kolesah) Soviet soldiers 1960
Virgin Soil Upturned (Podnyataya tselina) Seen in hidden weapon cache 1960
In the Hard Hour (V trudnyy chas) Soviet soldiers 1961
Two Lives (Dve zhizni) Vyacheslav Tikhonov Capt. Sergey Nashchyokin 1961
Elena Gogoleva Old Princess Nashchyokina
Soldiers of the 1st Machine Gun Regiment, soldiers of the Provisional Government
Cheka Employee (Sotrudnik ChK) Red Army soldiers, bandits 1964
Across the Cemetery (Cherez kladbishche) Seen in the partisans' camp 1965
Viva Maria! Mexican soldiers 1965
Carlos López Moctezuma Ródriguez
Doctor Zhivago Russian soldiers 1965
Fury (Yarost) Margarita Volodina Ataman Lyol'ka 1966
Vitold Janpavlis A White officer
Red and White troops
Sergey Lazo Red and White Armies soldiers 1968
Two Comrades Were Serving (Sluzhili dva tovarishcha) Oleg Yankovskiy Andrei Nekrasov 1968
Red and White soldiers
Storm Over the Belaya (Groza nad Beloy) Vladimir Kashpur Veselkov 1968
Red and White troops
Song About Manshuk (Pesn o Manshuk) Natalya Arinbasarova Sgt. Manshuk Mametova 1969
The Naval Mettle (Morskoy kharakter) Soviet Marines 1970
Red Square (Krasnaya ploshchad) Pavel Kormunin Karpushonok 1970
Pyotr Trifonov Pet'ka
Red soldiers
Name the Hurricane "Mariya" (Nazovite uragan "Mariyey") Red sailors 1970
Lyubov Yarovaya Red soldiers 1970
Mission in Kabul (Missiya v Kabule) Basmachi 1971
Officers (Ofitsery) Red Army men 1971
Bumbarash Red Army soldiers 1971
Bad Man's River seen in the armory 1971
Dauria Vitali Solomin Roman Ulybin 1972
Red Guards, Anarchists
An Hour Before the Dawn (Za chas do rassveta) Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Armen Andranikyan 1973
Sergei Kharchenko Taras Zhurba
Aleksey Eybozhenko Stepan Suslov
Ruslan Akhmetov Sadyk Kurnabayev
Lev Vajnshtejn Yasha Katzman
White Army soldiers
In the Black Sands (V chyornykh peskakh) Red Army soldiers 1973
And on the Pacific... (I na Tikhom Okeane...) Nikita Podgorny Cpt. Aleksandr Petrovich Nezelasov 1974
Red and White army soldiers
Sokolovo Jan Kanyza Sgt. Rataj 1975
Stefan Kvietik Ignác Spiegel
The Lost Expedition (Propavshaya ekspeditsiya) White Army soldiers, Red partisans 1975
Peasant Son (Krestyanskiy syn) Yuriy Legkov Ryzhiy 1975
Golden River (Zolotaya rechka) Viktor Sergachyov Yefim Subbota 1976
Days of the Turbins (Dni Turbinykh) Andrey Myagkov Col. Aleksei Turbin 1976
Tachanka from the South (Tachanka s yuga) Red Army soldiers, bandits 1977
Rebellious "Orion" (Myatezhnyy "Orion") Russian sailors On naval mountings 1978
Velvet Season (Barkhatnyy sezon) Spanish Republicans 1978
The Fight in the Taiga (Poedinok v tayge) White Army soldiers, Red partisans 1978
Last Year of Berkut (Posledniy god Berkuta) Oleg Korchikov Fyodor Polyntsev 1978
Catch the Wind (Ishchi vetra...) Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov White Army Captain 1979
Cossacks
The Battle of Port Arthur (203 kochi) Russian soldiers 1980
Bread, Gold and the Nagant Revolver (Khleb, zoloto, nagan) Yuriy Grigorev Sasha Andronov 1980
Oleg Korchikov Stepan Zaytsev
White Army soldiers, bandits
The Girl from the Legend (Devushka iz legendy) Uktam Lukmanova Fatima 1980
The Sixth (Shestoy) 1981
Keep Your Eyes Open! (Smotri v oba!) Radner Muratov Zakirov 1981
Against the Current (Protiv techeniya) Red soldiers and sailors 1981
Snipers (Snaypery) Soviet troops w/o shield 1985
Moonzund Seen on Russian positions 1988
The Winter War Finnish Soldiers 1989
The Warrior's Heart Finnish soldier 1992
Ambush (Rukajärven tie) Soviet soldiers 1999
Beyond the Front Line Finnish and Soviet soldiers 2004
Philosophy of a Knife Finnish soldier archive footage 2008
When They Cry: Reshuffle Imperial German Soldiers 2009
Dnieper Line: Love and War Soviet soldiers 2009
Pillbox (Dot) Stanislav Melnik Pvt. Shetikov 2009
Evgeniy Ganelin Capt. Leonov
Andrey Isaenko Sgt. Kamarinsky
The Golden Mean (Zolotoe sechenie) on the image 2010
Stalingrad Soviet sailors mounted on a boat 2013
1944 Estonian soldiers 2015
Battle of Sevastopol (Bitva za Sevastopol) Red Army soldiers 2015
Batalion Nikolay Auzin Lt. Nikolay Seleznev 2015
Fritz Lang Russian soldiers 2016
Panfilov's 28 (28 panfilovtsev) Oleg Senchenko Gavriil Mitin 2016
Kim Druzhinin Daniil Kozhebergenov
The Unknown Soldier Finnish soldier 2017
Journey's End German soldiers smooth-barrelled 2018
Blizzard of Souls Latvian soldiers 2019

Television

Show Title / Episode Actor Character Note Air Date
The Adjutant of His Excellency (Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva) Yuriy Solomin Pavel Koltsov 1969
Angel's brigands
How the Steel Was Tempered (Kak zakalyalas stal) Vladimir Konkin Pavel Korchagin 1973
Fyodor Panasenko Anton Tokarev
Vladimir Talashko Vladimir Okunyov
Red Army men, Komsomol activists
Born by Revolution: Hard Autumn (Rozhdyonnaya revolyutsiey: Trudnaya osen) Red soldiers and sailors Seen in documentary footage 1974
Here Lies the Border (Zdes prokhodit granitsa) Soviet border guards and volunteers Ep.1 1975
Omega Option (Variant "Omega") Soviet sailors Seen in documentary footage 1975
Born by Revolution: On the Night of the 20th (Rozhdyonnaya revolyutsiey: V noch na 20-e) Moscow People's Militia 1976
The Strogovs (Strogovy) White troops and Red partisans Ep.7,8 1976
Eternal Call (Vechnyy zov) - Season 1 Ivan Lapikov Pankrat Nazarov Ep.4 1976
Red Guards, White Army soldiers Ep.4,5
The Road to Calvary (Khozhdenie po mukam) Aleksandr Lazarev, Sr. Poruchik Zhadov Ep.3 1977
Valeriy Zotov Kvashnin Ep.5
Konstantin Grigoryev Chugai Ep.11
Austro-Hungarian soldier Mocked up as MG08; Ep.2
Red and White soldiers
It Was in Kokand (Eto bylo v Kokande) Otabek Ganiyev Yusup 1977
Aleksandr Denisov Likholetov
Red soldiers
The State Border: Film 1 Red Army soldiers 1980
German soldiers modified to resemble German MG08
The State Border: Film 2 Russian Border guards 1980
The Meeting at High Snows (Vstrecha u vysokikh snegov) Red Army soldiers 1981
The State Border: Film 3 Russian Border guards 1982
20th of December (20-e dekabrya) Red Guards 1982
Take Him Alive (Vzyat zhivym) Soviet soldiers 1983
The State Border: Film 4 Russian Border guards and Turkestan Communist fighters 1984
Makar the Pathfinder (Makar-sledopyt) Red and White troops Also mounted on "British tank" 1984
Fiery Roads (Ognennye dorogi) Natalya Varley Maria Kuznetsova Ep.15 1985
Red Army soldiers Ep.13,15
Confrontation (Protivostoyanie) German soldiers Visually modified to resemble MG08 1985
The State Border: Film 5 Russian Border guards on wheel mount and M-4 AA quad mount 1986
Special Operations Squad (Otryad spetsyalnogo naznacheniya) Soviet partisans 1987
And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) Red and White troops 2006
The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya) White Guard soldiers 2012
Clara Immerwahr French soldiers 2014
And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) Red Cossacks 2015
Demon of the Revolution (Demon revolyutsii) Mounted on Russian armoured car; Seen in documentary footage 2017
Trotsky Russian soldiers, Red Guards 2017
The Kitchenblock Vladimir Butenko White Army officer 2021

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Notation Release Date
Conflict: Vietnam 2004
Forgotten Hope 2 2007
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad 2011
Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 "Maxim MG" 2015
Battlefield 1 2016
Tannenberg "Maxim Machine Gun" 2019

Anime

Film Title Character Note Date
Momotaro: Sacred Sailors British soldiers 1945
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Ishvalan resistance fighter 2009 - 2010
Suisei no Gargantia Sailors 2013


Maxim M1910/30

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Russian Maxim M1910/30 machine gun - 7.62x54mmR
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Russian Maxim M1910/30, post-1941 manufacture with top hatch on cooling jacket allowing it to be filled more quickly or with snow - 7.62x54mmR
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Maxim M1910/30 in M-4 AA quad mounting

Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
If War Comes Tomorrow (Esli zavtra voyna) Red Army soldiers On Sokolov mount and M-4 AA quad mounting 1938
Deep Raid (Glubokiy reid) Soviet and German soldiers M-4 AA quad mounting 1938
The Man with the Rifle (Chelovek s ruzhyom) Boris Chirkov Yevtushenko 1938
Mark Bernes Kostya Zhigilev
German soldiers, Red Guards
Mounted on an armored car and armored train
Red Tanks (Tankisty) German soldiers Standing for MG08 1939
Commandant of the Bird Island (Komendant Ptichyego ostrova) Soviet border guard sailors On naval pivot mounting 1939
Sixty Days (Shestdesyat dney) Red Army soldiers 1940
The Girl from Leningrad (Frontovye podrugi) Soviet and Finnish soldiers 1941
Red Army soldiers M-4 AA quad mounting
Fighting Film Collection No. 4 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 4) Dmitri Pavlov Bakov 1941
Sergey Pozharskiy Taratora
Red Army soldiers
Fighting Film Collection No. 6 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 6) M-4 Quad Mounting; documentary footage 1941
Lad from Our Town (Paren iz Nashego Goroda) Red Army soldiers M-4 AA quad mounting 1942
Antosha Rybkin Red Army soldiers 1942
We Will Come Back (Sekretar raykoma) Anatoliy Alekseev Smolyak 1942
Kotovsky Imperial German soldiers 1942
Fighting Film Collection No. 8 (Boyevoy kinosbornik No. 8) Lavrenti Masokha A German officer 1942
German soldiers
Invincible (Nepobedimye) Soviet soldiers 1943
Native Shores (Rodnye berega) Soviet soldiers 1943
T-9 Submarine (Podvodnaya lodka T-9) Soviet seamen AA mounting on submarine 1943
A Good Lad (Slavnyy malyy) Soviet partisans 1943
The Marine Battalion (Morskoy batalion) Soviet infantry soldiers and marines 1944
The Last Hill (Malakhov kurgan) Nikolai Dorokhin Pvt. Sizov 1944
Moscow Skies (Nebo Moskvy) Soviet soldiers M-4 quad AA mounting 1944
Six P.M. (V shest chasov vechera posle voyny) Marina Ladynina Varya Pankova M-4 quad AA mounting 1944
Female anti-aircraft gunners
The Turning Point (Velikiy perelom) Pavel Volkov Yefreytor Stepan 1945
Soviet soldiers
Victorious Return (Majup ar uzvaru) Harijs Avens Jurcins 1948
Soviet soldiers
The Star (Zvezda) Soviet soldiers 1949
The Battle of Stalingrad (Stalingradskaya bitva), Part I Soviet soldiers 1949
The Battle of Stalingrad (Stalingradskaya bitva), Part II Soviet soldiers 1949
School of Courage (Shkola muzhestva) Red and White soldiers 1954
Restless Youth (Trevozhnaya molodost) Revcom men 1955
The Crash of the Emirate (Krushenie emirata) Uprising Bukhara peasants 1955
Pavel Korchagin Vladimir Marenkov Ivan Zharkiy 1956
Red Army and Ukrainian National troops
Miles of Fire (Ognennye versty) Ivan Savkin Grigory Zavragin 1957
And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don) Pyotr Chernov Ilya Bunchuk 1957
Russian Army soldiers, Reds and Whites
On the Other Side (Po tu storonu) Reds, Whites, anarchists 1958
Oleko Dundich Dragomir Felba Palich 1958
Red Army soldiers
Kochubey Red and White soldiers 1958
1918 (Vosemnadtsatyy god) Revolutionaries, Red Army troops 1958
Gloomy Morning (Khmuroe utro) Boris Andreyev Chugai 1959
Red Army troops, Makhno's brigands, uprising workers
Soldiers Were Going (Shli soldaty...) Provisional Government troops 1959
The Green Wagon (Zelyonyy Furgon) Red Army soldiers 1959
The Golden Eshelon (Zolotoy eshelon) Red partisans, White Army soldiers 1959
Fortress on Wheels (Krepost na kolesah) Andrei Khlebnikov Sgt. Aleksei Gogolko M-4 Quad Mounting 1960
Mikhail Pugovkin Sgt. Ivan Vozhzhov
Soviet soldiers
Spring (Kwiecien) Polish soldiers 1961
Two Lives (Dve zhizni) Soldiers of the 1st Machine Gun Regiment 1961
Peace to Him Who Enters (Mir vkhodyashchemu) Soviet soldiers Seen in documentary footage 1961
At Your Threshold (U Tvoyego Poroga) Moscow militiamen 1964
The Living and the Dead (Zhivye i Myortvye) Russian soldiers 1964
Attack and Retreat (Italiani brava gente) Soviet soldiers 1964
Cheka Employee (Sotrudnik ChK) Red Army soldiers, bandits 1964
A Tale About Nipper-Pipper (Skazka o Malchishe-Kibalchishe) The boys 1965
The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (Giperboloid inzhenera Garina) Mounted on Soviet patrol boat 1965
No Unknown Soldiers (Net neizvestnykh soldat) Aleksandr Lukyanov The soldier 1965
Pavel Ivanov Mikhail Kravchenko
The Letter (Paket) Reds and White troops 1965
The Elusive Avengers (Neulovimye mstiteli) Bandits, Red Army soldiers 1966
And All Will Be Quiet (Potem nastapi cisza) Polish soldiers 1966
Fury (Yarost) Red sailors 1966
An Extraordinary Assignment (Chrezvychajnoe poruchenie) Anarchists 1966
Wedding in Malinovka (Svadba v Malinovke) Red Army soldiers and brigands Mounted on tachanka cart 1967
Way into "Saturn" (Put v "Saturn") Soviet partisans 1967
The End of "Saturn" (Konets "Saturna") Soviet partisans 1968
The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers (Novye prikluchenya Neulovimykh) White Army soldier Mounted on a patrol boat 1968
On Kiev Direction (Na kievskom napravlyenii) Soviet soldiers 1968
Remember This Day (Zapomnim etot den) Russian soldiers 1968
The Sixth of July (Shestoe iyulya) Left SRs and Bolsheviks 1968
Storm Over the Belaya (Groza nad Beloy) Aleksey Yakovlev Andrey Karpov 1968
Red Army men
Liberation: The Fire Bulge Soviet soldiers 1969
Liberation: Breakthrough Soviet soldiers 1969
Shine, Shine, My Star (Gori, gori, moya zvezda) Leonid Kuravlyov Serdyuk 1969
Red Army soldiers, White Army soldiers, bandits
The Flight (Beg) Red Army and White Army soldiers 1970
The Naval Mettle (Morskoy kharakter) Boris Tokarev Andrey Krotkikh 1970
Soviet Marines
About Friends-Comrades (O druzyakh-tovarishchakh) Anarchists 1970
Red Square (Krasnaya ploshchad) Stanislav Lyubshin Dmitry Amelin Mounted on armoured train 1970
Red soldiers
Mounted on Red Army armoured cars and armoured train
The End of Ataman (Konets atamana) Seen in Ablaykhanov's house 1970
Name the Hurricane "Mariya" (Nazovite uragan "Mariyey") Red sailors 1970
Listen on the Other Side (Daisny tserguudee sonsotsgoo!) Soviet and Mongolian soldiers 1971
The Property of Republic (Dostoyanie respubliki) Oleg Tabakov Makar Mounted on tachanka cart 1971
The Hot Snow (Goryachiy Sneg) Soviet soldiers 1972
Izhora Battalion (Izhorskiy batalyon) Soviet soldiers 1972
Dauria Vitali Solomin Roman Ulybin 1972
Igor Milonov Gerasim
Red Guards, Anarchists
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (V boy idut odni "stariki") Soviet soldiers 1973
Poem of Kovpak: Alarm (Duma o Kovpake: Nabat) Valentin Belokhvostik Semyon Rudnev 1973
Soviet partisans
Soviet troops M-4 AA Quad Mounting
An Hour Before the Dawn (Za chas do rassveta) Sergei Kharchenko Taras Zhurba 1973
Aleksey Eybozhenko Stepan Suslov
Ruslan Akhmetov Sadyk Kurnabayev
In the Black Sands (V chyornykh peskakh) Nikolai Godovikov Kopylov 1973
The Last Deed of Kamo (Posledniy podvig Kamo) Dashnaks 1974
They Fought for Their Country Russian soldiers 1975
Dozhit do rassveta Russian soldiers 1975
Front Without Flanks (Front bez flangov) Aleksandr Denisov Petty Officer Vakulenchuk 1975
Soviet soldiers
Poem of Kovpak: Snow-Storm (Duma o Kovpake: Buran) Nikolay Merzlikin Vasily Nikolayev 1975
Aleksandr Lutsenko Opanasenko
Valentin Belokhvostik Semyon Rudnev
Soviet partisans
The Wolf Pack (Volchya staya) Seen in partisans camp 1975
Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians... (Duma o Kovpake: Karpaty, Karpaty...) Valentin Belokhvostik Semyon Rudnev 1976
Leonid Slisarenko Stepan Krymov
Partisans
The Victor (Pobeditel) Aleksandr Zbruev Yakov Spiridonov 1976
Fiery Bridge (Ognennyy most) Red Guards, Red Army soldiers, Yunkers (cadets), Ukrainian Haidamaks 1976
Front Beyond the Front Line (Front za liniey fronta) Soviet soldiers 1977
The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye) Soviet partisans 1977
Duty (Dolg) White troops 1977
R.V.S. Red cavalrymen 1977
Special Destination Force (Otryad osobogo naznacheniya) Soviet soldiers 1978
The End of the Emperor of the Taiga (Konets imperatora taygi) German Kachin Pavel Nikitin 1978
Solovyov's men
The Guarneri Quartet (Kvartet Gvarneri) Yuriy Solomin Vasiliy Voznitsyn 1978
Yuriy Prokhorov Prokhor
Last Year of Berkut (Posledniy god Berkuta) Oleg Korchikov Fyodor Polyntsev 1978
Bandits
Country Trip of Sergeant Tsybulya (Dachnaya poezdka serzhanta Tsybuli) Soviet soldiers 1979
Catch the Wind (Ishchi vetra...) White Cossacks 1979
From the Bug to the Vistula (Ot Buga do Visly) Soviet partisans 1980
Mercedes Gets Away from the Chase ('Mersedes' ukhodit ot pogoni) Soviet soldiers Standard and M-4 AA quad 1980
Fiasco of Operation Terror (Krakh operatsii "Terror") SR fighters 1981
Order: Don't Open Fire (Prikaz: ogon ne otkryvat) Soviet soldiers 1981
Front in the Rear of the Enemy (Front v tylu vraga) Soviet soldiers 1981
Against the Current (Protiv techeniya) Red soldiers and sailors 1981
Wolmi Island North Korean soldiers 1982
Fight at the Crossroads (Boy na Perekryostke) Les Serdyuk Muksun 1982
SR rebels
Urgent... Secret... Gubcheka (Srochno... sekretno... Gubcheka) A White officer 1982
The Green Wagon (Zelyonyy Furgon) Soldiers of several armies On Sokolov mount and tripod mount 1983
Under Martial Law (Po zakonam voyennogo vremeni) Soviet soldiers M-4 AA quad mount 1983
Day of Division Commander (Den komandira divizii) Soviet soldiers 1983
Battle for Moscow Soviet soldiers On Sokolov mount and M-4 AA quad mount 1985
Come and See (Idi i smotri) Soviet partisans 1985
Snipers (Snaypery) Soviet troops 1985
The Battalions Request Fire (Batalyony prosyat ognya) Soviet soldiers 1985
Island of Lost Ships (Ostrov pogibshikh korabley) Seen on the Island 1987
Moonzund Seen on Russian positions 1988
Deja Vu Vladimir Golovin Mikita Nechyporuk 1988
Before Sunrise (Pered rassvetom) Soviet soldiers On Sokolov mount and twin AA mounting 1989
Valeri Ryzhakov Nikolai
Time to Kill (Tempo di uccidere) Italian troops 1989
It's We, O God! (Eto mi, Gospodi!..) Soviet soldiers 1990
Zdraviya zhelayu! ili Beshenyy dembel Anton Androsov Mitya Agafonov 1990
Europa Europa 1990
General Soviet soldiers 1992
Hold-Up (Nalyot) Vladimir Karasyov A criminal Mounted on car trailer 1993
Hollow Point Russian mobsters Mounted on pickup 1996
Brother 2 Viktor Sukhorukov Viktor 2000
Enemy at the Gates Russian NKVD Troops 2001
Tae Guk Gi North Korean Soldiers 2004
Joy Division Soviet soldiers 2006
Attack on Leningrad Soviet soldiers 2007
Hitler's Kaput! (Gitler kaput!) Evelina Bledans Gestapo 'Frau' Oddo 2008
Back in Time (My iz budushchego) Red Army soldiers 2008
Dnieper Line: Love and War Soviet soldiers 2009
Soviet officer M-4 AA quad mounting
Pillbox (Dot) Stanislav Melnik Pvt. Shetikov 2009
Aleksandr Suvorov Starshina Kovsh
Andrey Isaenko Sgt. Kamarinsky
The Brest Fortress (Brestskaya Krepost) Russian soldiers 2010
Andrey Merzlikin Andrey Kizhevatov
Paradox Soldiers (My iz budushchego 2) Soviet troops 2010
Weekend Soldiers 2010
Tatar Operation (Tatar ajillagaa) Erdenebileg Ganbold Tulga 2011
Dagvajamts Batsukh Gyalbaa
Enkhtayvan Borkhuu Koliaa
Burnt by the Sun 2 (Utomlennye solntsem 2) Soviet troops 2011
Battle of Warsaw 1920 Russian and polish troops 2011
Natasza Urbanska Ola Raniewska
My Way Red Army blocking detachment 2011
War of the Dead German soldier 2011
Stalingrad Soviet sailors mounted on a boat 2013
Courier of Special Importance (Kurersky osoboy vazhnosti) Vedat Mametov Kasumi 2013
Imperial Japanese Soldiers
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (A zori zdes tikhie...) Ilya Alekseev Osyanin 2015
Battle of Sevastopol (Bitva za Sevastopol) Red Army soldiers 2015
The Lost City of Z German soldiers Anachronistic, standing for Maxim MG08 2017
The Unknown Soldier Soviet soldiers 2017
The Death of Stalin NKVD soldiers 2017
The Axe (Topor) Soviet soldiers 2018

Television

Show Title Actor Character Note / Episode Air Date
Stawka wieksza niz zycie Polish troops 15/ "Oblezenie" 1966-1968
Czterej pancerni i pies Soviet and Polish troops 1966-1970
Shadows Disappear at Noon (Teni ischezayut v polden) Red partisans, brigands Ep.1 1972
Omega Option (Variant "Omega") Soviet soldiers Seen in documentary footage; on Sokolov mounting and M-4 quad mounting 1975
Born by Revolution: On the Night of the 20th (Rozhdyonnaya revolyutsiey: V noch na 20-e) Moscow People's Militia, soldiers 1976
The Strogovs (Strogovy) Anatoliy Semenov Commissar Krayukhin Ep.8 1976
White troops and Red partisans Ep.7,8
The Road to Calvary (Khozhdenie po mukam) Red and White troops 1977
The Twelve Chairs (12 stulyev) Saveliy Kramarov Viktor Polesov 1977
Shattered Sky (Raskolotoe nebo) Abesalom Loria Yakov Gnevnyy 1979
Red Army soldiers
Syndicate-2 (Sindikat-2) White Army soldiers 1981
The Meeting at High Snows (Vstrecha u vysokikh snegov) Red Army soldiers 1981
Long Road in the Dunes (Ilgais cels kapas) Red Army soldier Ep.4 1982
Peace to Your House (Mir vashemu domu) Nikolay Kochegarov Mikhail Kobrin 1982
Red Army soldiers, Basmachi
Eternal Call (Vechnyy zov) - Season 2 Soviet troops 1983
M-4 AA quad mounting; Seen in documentary footage
Makar the Pathfinder (Makar-sledopyt) Aleksandr Bakharevsky Red Army commander 1984
Red and White troops Also mounted on "British tank"
Special Operations Squad (Otryad spetsyalnogo naznacheniya) Soviet partisans 1987
Ultimate Force Serbian paramilitaries Something to Do with Justice 2002
Liquidation (Likvidatsiya) Soviet soldiers 2007
Rasputin Russian soldiers 2011
The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya) Aleksey Serebryakov Col. Feliks Nay-Turs Visually modified to resemble MG08 2012
The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya) Mounted on armoured car 2012
Red Mountains (Krasnye gory) Brigand 2013
Our Mothers, Our Fathers Soviet soldiers 2013
Black Cats (Chyornye koshki) Soviet soldiers Seen in documentary footage 2013
Bitch War (Suchya voyna) Soviet soldiers Seen in documentary footage 2014
The Executioner (Palach) Viktoriya Tolstoganova Antonina Malyshkina 2015
Clash of Futures Ep. 07 "Betrayal" 2018
The Saboteur 3: Crimea (Diversant. Krym) Soviet sailors 2020
Alex the Fierce (Alex Lyutyj) Seen in museum 2020
Alyosha Ilya Yasinskiy A Soviet Lieutenant 2020

Video games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Commandos: Strike Force It has unlimited ammo 2006
Company of Heroes 2 2013
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly Maxim gun 2014
Heroes & Generals M-4 Quad AA (Stationary and GAZ-AAA truck) 2016
Enlisted 2021
Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront 2021

Anime

Title Character Note Air Date
Castle in the Sky Soldiers 1986
New Dream Hunter Rem: Massacre in the Phantasmic Labyrinth is seen in the Geppetto base 1992
First Squad: The Moment of Truth 2009


Maxim-Tokarev

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Maxim-Tokarev light machine gun - 7.62x54mm R

Maxim-Tokarev (MT or sometimes M-T) is a Soviet light machine gun, based on Maxim M1910. It was designed by Fedor Tokarev in the early 1920s and put into service in 1925. MT has a perforated barrel cover instead of a water jacket of original Maxim; the barrel itself was shortened. A rifle stock and a folding bipod with tubular legs replaced the spade grips and wheeled carriage. The canvas belt capacity was reduced to 100 rounds. Maxim-Tokarev satisfied Red Army only marginally so it was manufactured only in small numbers (according to various sources, about 2,400 or about 3,500). When DP-27 was produced in large numbers, MT was dismissed from service. Most of the MTs were sold to Republican Spain and China.

Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
Sniper German troops Stands for some German machine gun 1931
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre Japanese troops Captured from Chinese troops 1995


Video games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Heroes & Generals 2016
Enlisted 2021

PV-1

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Nadashkevich PV-1, early version - 7.62x54mm R
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Wartime photo of the triple AA mounting of PV-1

PV-1 (Pulemyot Vozdushny, airborne machine gun) is a Soviet aircraft-mounted version of Maxim M1910. It was designed in the mid-1920s by Alexander Nadashkevich and put into service in 1928. Unlike the base Maxim, PV-1 was air-cooled and had ROF increased to 750 rpm. About 18,000 PV-1s were manufactured in 1927-1939. PV-1 was the main weapon of many Soviet fighter planes, like Polikarpov I-5 and I-15, and Tupolev I-4, and also mounted on reconnaissance planes Polikarpov R-5/R-Z and its ground attack variant R-5Sh. In August 1941 large stocks of PV-1s, removed from obsolete planes, were converted to triple anti-aircraft mountings, designed by Nikolay Tokarev (son of Fyodor Tokarev). In 1942, about 3,000 PV-1 guns were converted to infantry weapons by mounting them on the Sokolov 1910 carriage.

Film

Title Actor Character Note Date
Nail in the Boot (Gvozd v sapoge) Mounted on R-3 reconnaissance plane 1932
Squadron No. 5 (Eskadrilya No. 5) Mounted on I-15bis fighter planes 1939

Television

Title Actor Character Note Date
The Black Sea (Chyornoye more) Soviet sailors In triple AA mounting 2020

Video games

Game Title Appears as Note Release Date
Heroes & Generals Mounted on R-Z reconnaissance plane 2016

Anime

Game Title Character Note Release Date
The Wind Rises mounted in Polikarpov I-15 fighters 2013


Maxim M/09-21

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Maxim (Konekivääri) M/09-21 - 7.62x54mmR

As the Finnish army realized after the fighting in 1918 that the Maxim was a reliable weapon and the machine gun in the army and the Guardia Civil was taken into service, there were further Finnish modifications. The Solokov wheeled bicycle rack created problems and was not the best choice for the forests, snowy landscapes, and marshy areas of Finland. So one dealt with the problem and one began to develop 1921 the first Finnish variant. The tripod mount of the German Maxim DWM model 1909 was used as the starting point for the design of a new steel-cane carriage, which could be folded up for easy transport. It was developed shortly before the First World War. These new tripod m / 21 masts were first produced by Crichton-Vulcan (Turku) and later by the Finnish Army Arms Depot No. 1 (A.V. 1, Helsinki).


Specifications

  • Weight: 24 kg
  • Weight of tripod: 24 kg
  • Length: 1110 mm
  • Barrel length: 720 mm
  • Rate of Fire: 500 - 600 rpm
  • Cartridge: 7.62x54mm R
  • Ammunition: 250-round continious metallic belt

Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
The Unknown Soldier Finnish soldiers 1955
The Unknown Soldier Finnish soldiers 1985
The Winter War Finnish troops 1989
The Warrior's Heart Finnish and Soviet soldiers 1992
Beyond the Front Line Finnish troops 2004
Tali-Ihantala 1944 Finnish troops 2007
Max Manus: Man of War Soviet troops 2008
The Unknown Soldier Eero Aho Cpl. Rokka 2017
Finnish soldiers








Maxim M/09-31 VKT

  • The Finnish 7.62 ItKk/31 VKT (7.62 mm antiaircraft machinegun M/31 VKT) is a double-linked version of the Maxim rifle used as an anti-aircraft weapon. The weapon was adapted to feed ammunition from the right and left sides.
  • The Finnish 7.62 mm Maxim M/09-31 (tank) machinegun : This was a special application of the right hand and left hand side machineguns used in 7.62 ItKk/31 VKT anti-aircraft machinegun. Finnish Army used them in machinegun-version of Renault FT-17 tanks in 1937 - 1943 and as a coaxial turret machinegun in Vickers 6-ton tanks in 1939 - 1940. They used similar disintegrating steel ammunition belts as ItKk/31 VKT anti-aircraft machinegun. The version used in Renault FT 17 was with right side feed, while the one used with Vickers 6-ton tanks was fed from the left side. But since the side from which the individual machinegun was fed with ammunition belts could be changed from one side to another in seconds by simply replacing the feed block of the machinegun, there was not much practical difference between the two versions. One would suspect that the high rate of fire (900 rounds/minute) combined with air-cooling might have caused some problems with overheating, but apparently these were not reported during their short service career. Instead a notably reported problem was unreliability of ammunition belt feed when used in Vickers 6-ton tanks - this seems to have been at least partly due to too long distance between ammunition belt box (attached to left side wall of the tank turret) and the machinegun. When Finnish Army equipped remaining Vickers 6-ton tanks with captured Soviet weapons around 1940 - 1941, all 762 Maxim M/09-31 tank machineguns were replaced with Soviet 7.62-mm DT machineguns.
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7.62 ItKk/31 VKT - 7.62x54mmR
  • Weight: 23.5 kg
  • Length: 113 cm
  • Barrel length: 72,3 cm
  • Rate of Fire: 900 rpm
  • Cartridge: 7.62x54mm R
  • Ammunition: 250-round continious metallic belt

Video Game

Game Title Appears as Note Release Date
Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront 2021


Maxim M/32-33

Finnish Maxim M/32-33 - 7.62x54mmR

Maxim M/32-33 is a Finnish machine gun, based on Russian Maxim M1910. It was developed by Aimo Lahti and put into service in 1932. The rate of fire was increased to 850 rpm. A distinctive feature of M/32-33 is a snow filling cap to the water jacket that was later copied on the 1941 version of Soviet Maxim M1910/30.

Specifications

  • Weight: 24 kg
  • Weight of tripod: 30 kg
  • Length: 1180 mm
  • Barrel length: 720 mm
  • Rate of Fire: 600 or 850 rpm
  • Cartridge: 7.62x54mm R
  • Ammunition: 200-round continious metallic belt

Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
We Will Come Back (Sekretar raykoma) German troops, Soviet partisans 1942
Kotovsky Imperial German soldiers 1942
The Unknown Soldier Finnish troops 1985
Tali-Ihantala 1944 Finnish troops 2007


Type 24 Heavy Machine Gun

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Type 24 Heavy Machine Gun - 7.92x57mm Mauser
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Type 24 Heavy Machine Gun, converted after the Chinese Civil War to 7.62x54mm R.

The Type 24 Heavy Machine Gun is the Chinese variant of the Maxim and can be identified by the muzzle disk mounted on the barrel just ahead of the water jacket. Due to the increasing Japanese threat, China was required to produce its own machine guns. Due to the Sino-German cooperation (1926–1941), the Type 24 machine gun was manufactured in 1935 with the help of former DWM employees, based on construction drawings of the DWM Modell 1909. The name Type 24 came about because 1935 was the 24th year of the Chinese revolutionaries under Sun Yatsen. Up until the Japanese invasion in 1937, between 1935 and 1937 over 36,000 Type 24 machine guns in 8x57mm caliber were manufactured in the Hanyang Arsenal (21st arsenal).

After the victory of the Communist Party, the People's Republic of China was proclaimed in 1949, and most of the Type 24 machine guns were changed to the Russian caliber 7.62x54R with the use of Russian metal belts.

Film

Title Actor Character Notation Date
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun) Kuomintang troops 1961
The Bamboo House of Dolls Imperial Japanese Army soldiers, partisans 1973
Magnificent Warriors Michelle Yeoh Fok Ming-Ming 1987
Assembly (Ji jie hao) Gu's company Barrel is in the center of the water jacket, which appears to be incorrect 2007
Lu
John Rabe Nationalist Chinese soldiers 2009
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen Japanese, French and German troops 2010
Death and Glory in Changde Chinese soldiers Tripod mounted 2010
Back to 1942 Chinese soldiers 2010
Shaolin 2011
The Eight Hundred Nationalist Chinese soldiers AA Duty 2020

Video games

Game Title Appears as Note Release Date
Men of Valor 2004
Shellshock Nam '67 2004
Shellshock 2: Blood Trails 2009
Far East War "Type 24 HMG" 2013

Maxim-Nordenfelt QF 1-pounder

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Vickers QF 1-pounder Mk II at the Imperial War Museum, London - 37x94mmR

This gigantic 410-pound variant of the Maxim was originally designed in the late 1880s by Hiram Maxim himself, originally as a direct-fire infantry weapon and later as a naval quick-firing gun for attacking torpedo boats and a light antiaircraft gun. It was the first autocannon to enter service and the first AA gun to be used by many of the powers that purchased it: about 450 were produced for various clients. Due to rules regarding minimum weight for explosive ammunition designed for use against infantry, the gun had to fire a projectile weighing not less than 400 grams (0.88 pounds): the final 37mm design fired a 1-pound projectile, hence the name: the nickname of "pom-pom" gun was originated by South Africans due to the slow, drumbeat-like rate of fire. Earlier versions were marked Maxim-Nordenfelt, while later British production versions were instead marked as Vickers, Sons & Maxim (VSM) after Vickers bought out Maxim-Nordenfelt in 1897.

These weapons could penetrate an inch of cast iron plate at 100 yards in the ground role, and proved extremely effective against early aircraft: however, they were practically useless against Zeppelins, since the rounds they fired were delay-impact-detonated and so would have to hit the steel frame of the airship or they would simply pass straight through it. Towards the end of WW1, they started to be replaced in British service by even more scaled-up Maxims, first by the 37mm QF 1.5-pounder and then by the much more powerful 40mm QF 2-pounder, listed below.

In German use it was known as the 3.7 cm MK and produced locally by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken, while the US Navy adopted it as the 1-pounder Mark 6.

Specifications

(1890s-1918)

  • Type: Autocannon
  • Caliber(s): 37x94mmR (1.457in) 1-pound Common Shell
  • Weight: 410 lbs (186 kg) (gun + mount, empty with water jacket and hydraulic buffer filled), 97 lbs (44 kg) (gun alone, naval variant with no bottom plate)
  • Length: 6ft 1in (1.85m)
  • Barrel length(s): 3ft 7in (1.09m)
  • Capacity: Various feeding mechanisms
  • Fire Modes: Auto, 300rpm

Video games

Game Title Appears as Note Release Date
Battlefield: 1918 2004
Assassin's Creed Syndicate 2015
Battlefield 1 2016

Vickers QF 2-pounder

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Vickers QF 2-pounder Mk VIII - 40x158mmR
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Vickers QF 2-pounder Mk VIII quad mount - 40x158mmR
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Vickers QF 2-pounder Mk II - 40x158mmR

The QF 2-pounder Mk II (not to be confused with the Ordnance QF 2-pounder anti-tank gun) was developed during World War I from the earlier QF 1-pounder and QF 1.5-pounder. Only slightly over one hundred of the original Mk I guns were produced, while nearly 800 Mk IIs were produced by Britain. Like its predecessor, it was commonly nicknamed "pom-pom" due to its firing sound.

The Mk II would also be sold to and/or produced locally by Italy (as the Vickers-Terni 40/39 Modello 1915 and Modello 1917), Japan (as the Type Bi, "bi" being phonetically interchangeable with "vi", from "Vickers"), and a small number by Russia. By WWII it had been largely phased out of service in these navies, replaced by the Breda 37/54 Modello 1932 in Italy and 25mm Type 96 in Japan.

In the early 1920s, after testing an experimental sextuple Mk II mount, Vickers developed the QF 2-pounder Mk VIII octuple gun, which entered Royal Navy service in 1930. A quad version was developed in the mid-'30s for use on smaller ships. The Mk VIII was also sometimes found in single mounts. Although considered obsolescent by World War II due to its low muzzle velocity and lack of tracer rounds, the octuple "pom-pom" continued to serve the Royal Navy throughout World War II, alongside the newer Oerlikon and Bofors.

Specifications

(Mk II - 1915 / Mk VII octuple - 1923 / Mk VII quadruple - 1936)

  • Type: Autocannon
  • Caliber(s): 37x94mmR
  • Weight: 850 lb (390 kg)
  • Length: 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
  • Capacity: Various feeding mechanisms
  • Fire Modes: 115 rpm (per barrel)

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Note Release Date
World of Warships: Legends 2019

Anime

Title Character Note Date
Strike Witches 2 Mk VIII mounts on King George V-class battleships 2010
Strike Witches: Operation Victory Arrow Mk VIII mounts on King George V-class battleships 2014-2015
Brave Witches Mk VIII quad mounts on Bellona-class cruiser and Type II Hunt-class destroyers 2016-2017
Mk II mounted on Diana-class cruiser


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