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

Throughline producer Lawrence Wu tells Cristina Kim all about the maxim gun—the world's first automatic machine gun—and the lengths he took to find out exactly how this 19th century weapon would have ...

A Ukrainian drone has claimed a very old prize: a Russian M1910 machine gun—a type that first appeared in, you guessed it, 1910. But it wasn’t just any M1910. The machine gun the first-person-view ...

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Hiram Maxim didn’t set out to invent a killing machine. But a lifetime of tinkering and building eventually led Maxim, who called himself a “chronic inventor,” to design and build the world’s first ...

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During the early morning of Oct. 25, 1893, a column of 700 soldiers from the British South African Police camped in a defensive position next to the Shangani River. While they slept, the Matabele king ...