At the end of the classic Soviet film "Chapayev" the protagonist takes his last fight in the attic of the mansion surrounded by Whites.The besiegers customize armored machine-gun towers and are attacking from all sides.You hear the sound of breaking glass and the window appears mezzanine tuporylye sting spew deadly fire.
Here Vasily swims awkwardly raking only surviving hand and, on the shore of the Cossacks shoot him, queues, heap and eventually aptly.It combines all of these scenes is that the two warring sides are using the same type of rapid-automatic weapons - machine gun "Maxim".
Soviet people were convinced that he has a very domestic origin, even its name sounds like a simple Russian name.Again, I remember another movie, "Youth of Maxim."However, the famous Parisian restaurant, too, is so named."I do not in honor of the gun it?" - Wonders proletarian.
a bit more complicated.Machine gun "Maxim" (with the accent on the first syllable) was named after its inventor, American Hiram Stevens Maxim.In 1883 he offered his creation of the US Army, but was rejected.Peace while agri-industrial country, separated from Europe's oceans, did not require such a monstrous weapons of mass destruction.
Another thing - Britain with all its colonies, for which the eyes and the eyes ... you listened very carefully to the engineer-inventor, and expressed a desire to draw the public order.At the Vickers brothers (sons) Hiram Stevens registered enterprises, the main product of which was the machine gun "Maxim", is very useful in the Boer War.
began and export.Technical data of the new sample were unique at the time.Lethal force remained at kilometer distance rate is the same as the modern "Kalashnikov" - 10 shots per second.
device machine gun "Maxim" was simple and reliable.To move a tape cartridge and cocking the shutter was used recoil energy, and barrel by cooling water, which should be poured into a cylindrical casing.Calculation defended by enemy fire broneschitkom rational form.All parts are unified to facilitate field repairs.Moving heavy weapons facilitated wheeled luge or chassis on which you install the base.
These qualities have always been inherent in Russian weapons, so a machine gun "Maxim" immediately after receipt of the first samples of the imperial army (1900-th year) earned the respect of a soldier.It cost a lot, 500 rubles, and to reduce military spending in 1910, it began manufacturing under license in Russia.
changes which cast a prototype concerning possible use for cooling is not only water, but also of snow, to this end, the casing neck has been expanded.To get away from dependence on imports of ammunition, caliber Russian "Maxima" in Tula converted into a standard three-way socket.
How many masterpieces of art weapons, a machine gun that was far ahead of its time.The Red Army and Navy made extensive use of a machine gun "Maxim" during the Great Patriotic War.The ship's anti-aircraft guns, consisting of a quad trunk synchronized with the trigger, shown to be effective in the fight against the German storm troopers and infantry skilfully used a proven firepower in defense and attack until 1944, when there were more sophisticated designs.
