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Maxim
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 being replaced with a toggle joint that was the forerunner of that used on the Borchardt C-93 and Luger P08.
Despite some scepticism 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 calibres. 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
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 | Spanish troops | Argentine Maxim | 1997 | |
| Lock 'n Load With R. Lee Ermey | R. Lee Ermey | Himself | Ep. 1: Machine Gun Educations | 2009 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Dead Redemption II | "Maxim Gun" | Mounted on Browning M1917 tripod | 2018 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Girls und Panzer Der Film | 1889 quadricycle carried a .303 Maxim machine gun and shield | 2015 | |
| Golden Kamuy | Russian soldiers | Ep. Wenkamuy" and in "Complication" | 2018 |
| Tsurumi | Ep. "Gleaming" |
Maxim MG08
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Big Parade | German soldiers | Some mounted on a plane and other fitted with Patronenkasten 16 belt drum | 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 | ||
| Heroes for Sale | German soldiers | 1933 | ||
| Shock Troop | German soldiers | 1934 | ||
| The Lives of a Bengal Lancer | 1935 | |||
| The General Died at Dawn | General Yang's troops | 1936 | ||
| 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 | |
| Native Shores (Rodnye berega) | German soldiers | Fitted with a bipod | 1943 | |
| In the Name of the Fatherland (Vo imya Rodiny) | German soldiers | 1943 | ||
| The Battle of the Rails (La bataille du rail) | German soldiers | 1946 | ||
| Zigmund Kolosovskiy | Seen among Polish partisans weapons; also in footage | 1946 | ||
| Five Gates to Hell | Vietnamesse guerillass | 1959 | ||
| Five Branded Women | German troops | 1960 | ||
| Taxi for Tobruk (Un taxi pour Tobrouk) | Germán Cobos | Jean Ramirez | Mounted on jeep | 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 | |||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Legends of the Fall | German soldiers | 1994 | ||
| The Lost Battalion | German soldiers | 2001 | ||
| Deathwatch | German soldiers | 2002 | ||
| 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 | 2009 | ||
| Dnieper Line: Love and War | German soldiers | 2009 | ||
| 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 |
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 | ||
| 14 - Diaries of the Great War | German soldiers | Episode 8 | 2014 | |
| Gallipoli | Turkish troops | 2015 | ||
| Deadline Gallipoli | Turkish soldiers | Episode 2 | 2015 |
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 | 2009 | |||
| 7554 | MG 08 | 2011 | ||
| The Great War 1918 | 2013 | |||
| Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 | MG08 | 2014 | ||
| Battlefield 1 | Mounted on A7V Tanks | 2016 |
Anime
| Title | Characters | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Girl 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 |
Maxim MG08/15
Starting from the year 1915 the variant 08/15 was developed on the basis of the MG 08 to create a weapon faster to manufacture than the Madsen machine gun for the LMG role. From the summer of 1917, the designated as leichtes MG 08/15 weapon was issued to the troupe. The modifications should avoid the time-consuming and slow tracking of the MG troops during storm attacks. The new variant should be usable directly during the attack in the front rows. In addition, the machine gun had to follow the infantry also dismounted. Too many infantry attacks failed due to lack of machine gun support, or too many machine guns were lost because they could not be dismantled in time. Therefore, the machine gun was now performed as a light machine gun with bipod and shoulder rest. Of these, each company received first two, later four. In early 1918, the number was even increased to six. For the transport of the MG 08/15 and the ammunition, the 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, existed in 1927, a secret inventory of about 12,000 machine guns. After the renaming of the Reichswehr in Wehrmacht, the MG 08 and MG 08/15 were replaced starting from 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 WW1 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 | ||
| Wings | German pilots | MG08/15 aircraft version | 1927 | |
| Two Arabian Knights | German soldiers | 1927 | ||
| Westfront 1918 | Gustav Diessl | Karl | 1930 | |
| German soldiers | ||||
| All Quiet on the Western Front | German soldier | 1930 | ||
| The Other Side | German soldiers | 1931 | ||
| 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 | ||
| The Fighting 69th | German soldiers | 1940 | ||
| Forty Thousand Horsemen | German and Turkish soldiers | 1940 | ||
| A Walk In The Sun | German soldiers | MG08/15 modified with water jacket removed | 1945 | |
| 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 | German soldiers | 2008 | ||
| 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 | |
| Wilson City | Hungarian solders | Fitted with drum magazine | 2015 | |
| Wonder Woman | German solders | Fitted with drum magazine | 2017 |
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 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mystic Archives of Dantalian | Mounted on aircraft | 2011 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi | Machine Gun | 2003 | |
| Battlefield: 1918 | 2004 | ||
| NecroVisioN | "MG08/15" | 2009 | |
| NecroVisioN: Lost Company | "MG08/15" | 2010 | |
| The Great War 1918 | 2013 | ||
| Call of Duty: Black Ops II | "MG08/15" | Included in the Apocalypse DLC | 2013 |
| Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 | 2014 | ||
| 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 |
Maxim MG08/18
The rare MG08/18 was an experimental heavy-barrel aircooled version under testing at the very end of the WW1.
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verdun | "Maschinengewehr 08/18" | 2015 | |
| Battlefield 1 | "lMG 08/18" | "Apocalypse" DLC | 2016 |
Maxim M1910
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 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
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 | ||
| 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 | |
| The White Guard (Belaya gvardiya) | White Guard soldiers | 2012 | ||
| Clara Immerwahr | Frnech soldiers | 2014 |
Video Games
| Game Title | Appears as | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad | 2011 | ||
| Battlefield 1 | 2016 |
Anime
| Film Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood | Ishvalan resistance fighter | 2009 - 2010 | |
| Suisei no Gargantia | Sailors | 2013 |
Maxim M1910/30
Film
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 | ||
| 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" | |||
| Ultimate Force | Serbian paramilitaries | Something to Do with Justice | 2002 | |
| Liquidation (Likvidatsiya) | Soviet soldiers | 2007 | ||
| 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 |
Video games
| Game Title | Appears as | Mods | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commandos: Strike Force | It has unlimited ammo | 2006 | ||
| Heroes & Generals | M-4 Quad AA (Stationary and GAZ-AAA truck) | 2016 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Dream Hunter Rem: Massacre in the Phantasmic Labyrinth | is seen in the Geppetto base | 1992 |
Maxim-Tokarev
Maxim-Tokarev (MT or sometimes M-T) is a Soviet light machine gun, based on Maxim M1910. It was designed by Fedor Tokarev in early 1920s and put into service in 1925. MT has a perforated barrel cover instead of 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 MTs was 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 |
PV-1
PV-1 (Pulemyot Vozdushny, airborne machine gun) is a Soviet aircraft mounted version of Maxim M1910. It was designed in mid-1920s by Alexander Nadashkevich and put into service 1928. Unlike the base Maxim, PV-1 was air-cooled and had ROF increased to 750 rpm. About 18,000 PV-1s was manufactured in 1927-1939. PV-1 was the main weapon of many Soviet fighter planes, lile 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 Fedor 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 |
Video games
| Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heroes & Generals | Mounted on R-Z reconnaissance plane | 2016 |
Maxim M/09-21
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 | ||
| 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/32-33
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 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
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. Originally adopted in 1935 chambered for the 7.92x57mm Mauser, after the Chinese Civil War a variant chambered for the 7.62x54mmR Russian cartridge was developed.
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun) | Kuomintang troops | 1961 | ||
| 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 | |
| Shaolin | 2011 |
Video games
| Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men of Valor | 2004 | ||
| Shellshock Nam '67 | 2004 | ||
| Shellshock 2: Blood Trails | 2009 |
Maxim-Nordenfelt QF 1-pounder "Pom-Pom" gun
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 2-pounder. Despite the latter quickly becoming technically obsolete due to low muzzle velocity and lack of a tracer round, it continued to be used on Royal Navy ships throughout WW2.
In German use it was known as the Maxim Flak M14 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 |