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Maxim gun
Description
The first fully automatic machine gun, harnessing recoil energy. It changed warfare at the end of the nineteenth century.
Historical use
- Colonial wars
- Russo-Japanese War
Technical data
- Year
- 1884
- Service
- 1884–1945
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Maker
- Maxim Gun Company
- Designer
- Hiram Maxim
- Type
- Machine gun
- Mechanism
- Automatic
- Calibre
- .577/450 y .303 British, entre otros
- Weight
- 27.2 kg
- Length
- 1,067 mm
- Rate of fire
- 550 rds/min
Source: Wikidata Q282352
