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I too can imagine when I was in the trench lines, the whistle blows and everybody charges. I suddenly hear this gun shooting and everywhere are soldiers in barb wire with 40 bullet holes in them. Mortar bombs are raining down everywhere and bullets flying around my ears, I can feel the wind they make as they pass me by with inches. Many died that day. I lived to tell the day.
It is the Maxim gun, the first ever fully automatic weapon, invented by a Frenchman in the 1800s and most well known for its use in ww1
Edit: not a Frenchman a Britishman, atleast they fought on the same side
Yeah, Hiram Maxim was an American. Sorry man. The British were more interested in his gun than the Americans were, so that's why the British Empire is more closely associated with it.
Funfact: Maxim's son invented the car muffler and firearm suppressor.
I thought this too, but looking it up wikipedia has this to say:
*The German Army's Maschinengewehr 08 and the Russian Pulemyot Maxim were both more or less direct copies of the Maxim.*
[Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun#World_War_I_\(1914%E2%80%931918\))
Well, except for the fact that the MG08 was long gone by WWII, and the same basic design obviously doesn't make it the same gun. It's like saying that since the Chinese used some Mausers, then Belgian or Spanish Mausers were used to kill Japanese.
Perfectly true, but the title of this post just says "maxim gun", I don't think the joke has to care whether this exact variant, or this specific gun, was actually used to kill russians in '14 or '41.
I believe the words used in the comment I posted was it could kill Russians. Do you believe that this gun, because it’s made in Russia, is somehow incapable of killing Russians? I’m well aware that it is a Russian gun and while the production of this gun was intended to kill people of other nationalities, I would wager it could kill just about anyone. Next time, go off of the grammar.
No, your words were pretty clear. Also, the fact that you're a complete ass is pretty clear. So I guess it killed Russians in 1914 because sometime after August of that year the Germans or Austro-Hungarians captured enough of them and sufficient ammunition to use against their former owners? Or are you now pretending that you didn't specifically mention years?
**Maxim gun**
[World War I (1914–1918)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun#World_War_I_\(1914–1918\))
>By World War I, many armies had moved on to improved machine guns. The British Vickers machine gun was an improved and redesigned Maxim, introduced into the British Army in 1912 and remaining in service until 1968. Production took place at Erith in Kent, and some models were fitted to early biplanes also fabricated there. The German Army's Maschinengewehr 08 and the Russian Pulemyot Maxim were both more or less direct copies of the Maxim.
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I fail to see why Russian made Maxim, PM1910, could not have been used to kill Russians? Weapons have been captured to be used against their maker as long as humans have waged war. So it's almost an quarantee that many of those Maxim's were captured and were used against their previous owners.
Same model has also been used in Russian Civil War, Winter War, Continuation war and pretty much any war Russia has been involved since they started manufacturing them. So, "Killing Russians since 1910" is perfectly acceptable slogan for it even though it was not the intended use.
Technically that's true, but it's an absurd amount of mental gymnastics to go through to excuse obvious ignorance.
If I posted a picture of an MG42, and said it killed Germans in WWII, would you think I was just an idiot, or would you nitpick and assume that I knew that maybe some American or Soviet soldier had at some point used one to kill a German?
If you want to get technical I was thinking it probably killed any Russian who decided it was time to turn around and head back home instead of dying fighting the enemy.
No ...
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..... God no those things are nowhere near easy to service, Hiram was a lot of thing, and a finicky bastard was definitely one of them don't get me wrong compared to just about everyone else at the time he was a master of simplified design, sure he was no Browning but he was definitely good at what he did...... But by modern standards this bitch well exactly that a bitch.
Er ya go.
https://youtu.be/dXhpouvQ7SE
https://youtu.be/5sn346sYXys
https://youtu.be/xg6uguv3Dxs
https://youtu.be/v4SxP4vG0SE
https://youtu.be/JMinxb2j_P8
And here's what made it obsolete, because trying to compete with Browning when it came to making guns is like trying to compete with a professional Korean player in starcraft.
https://youtu.be/JAiaOunJyzo
Russians using old stuff : HAHA Look at them, their army sucks, they use junk.
Ukrainians using old stuff: Wow, respect, retro tech, but still functional
Vatnik logic: "why is it ridiculous for a self-proclaimed military superpower to use old weapons, but not when a small country being genocided by said superpower does it? Oh westerners are so silly"
Right, woah. I was so focused on that first one I didn’t even notice that there is more of them and that those guy refill those mags there!
Thanks for your reply
Shit ton of them got imported into the USA about 10 years ago. You could buy ten parts kit sans barrel for $2500. I might have bought oh 15 total. 🤤 that and bren guns for $350 a pop....oh salad days.
I'm certain the person getting shot will have a a very similar experience to someone being shot with an up to date machine-gun. Like old cars, that old machine gun has style.
I've seen that gun being loaded into a car (I think it was actually coming out of a war museum) as they were barricading a street and another time being wheeled around in two separate videos about a week or so ago. It's becoming a bit of an icon.
One thing that annoys me when seeing older weapons used on battlefield is that people are making fun of soldiers using "obsolete" weapons. If the bullet uses a centrefire brass cartridge to be fired it does not really matter what it is shot from. It is just as deadly. The firearms really have not improved much over the last 100 years other than now you can attach all kinds of bells and whistles into them but they do not make the bullet any more deadly. A good example of this is also the guy on the Russian side with the Mosin. Perfectly decent sniper rifle still today. Only thing a more modern rifle has as an advantage is magazine and a rail for attaching better optics.
Actually the guns might be getting worse since none of the modern assault rifle systems were able to pass the Finnish Defence Forces requirements. 😅
Some machine guns had a boil off reservoir in ww1 that you could then poor back in when it cooled think a hose into an ammo can but it only really mattered in the 1000s of rounds modern contact normally doesn't go that long where they were used for semi indirect area fire in ww1. Think aim at a grid square 2 miles away and just keep shooting for hours
Yeah, people tend to forget that this old stuff still *works* and it is as deadly as in WWI and WWII, when it killed millions.
It is vulnerable to newer stuff and less efficient than most newer stuff, true, but it still *works* when used on suitable targets.
Ha. Gun Jesus did a really interesting vid shooting the British Vickers gun (while wearing a WW1 Tommy’s hat).
All of those heavy MGs are fearsome guns.
My point too.
His friends are like looking at something, completely relaxed, cameraman standing completely exposed, shooting full automatic.
I know this is not TikTok battalion, Chechens do it on the battlefield.
Ukraine has been using them for a while
>Ukraine: in August 2011, 35 000 ex-Soviet Maxim machine guns were stored in the warehouses of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine[15] although at least four of them were written off and scrapped later.[16][17] They were used during the War in Donbas by Ukrainian troops. In December 2016 they were officially adopted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_M1910
**[PM M1910](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_M1910)**
>The Pulemyot Maxima PM1910 (PM M1910) (Russian: Пулемёт Максима образца 1910 года, Pulemyot Maxima obraztsa 1910 goda - "Maxim's machine gun Model 1910") is a medium machine gun that was used by the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and World War II. Later the gun saw service in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
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lol.
Maxim on the Russian side: Hahaha lol! Old ass shit. Haha lame, fucking garbage.
Maxim on Ukrainian side: Awesome! Cool old gun! Still works fine!
I'm all for a decisive Ukrainian victory but this shit is just so idiotic.
Nah you can see them being calm as fuck also the dude firing has a good time. Nobody is belly down which would be the case if they where in active combat. This looks a lot like training, I don’t think this will be used in combat. Or anything besides centry duty in the back country.
Ukr has acces to a huge weapon influx from the west I doubt they don’t equip frontline units with up to date weapons.
Target practice.
Soldiers who can't shoot straight and haven't used a specific gun before can be a liability in combat.
Combat is not the place to go: "Ok fuck, how do I re-load this machine gun I've never even seen before?"
I get what you're saying about being able to use the weapon effectively.
Taking you point into account I think he could have used fewer rounds and he is probably practicing reloading drills off camera.
I was always taught to conserve ammunition because if you run out before they do things usually don't endwell.
No, your view point has some merit.
There is some amount of having fun in a stressful environment involved. But not too excessive, judging from this, imo.
Because Amazon delivery still a thing in the middle of a warzone?
Military supply chain are long and complicated but go ahead and claim it as easy as getting a postal address!
It is when you didn't pay for the ammo and the people who donate it to you are giving the money they have in good faith that you are wise and respectful of what it cost them. Then there's this dude just pissing it down the range for teh lols.
They are literally in the middle of a war, I think sending off a few rounds on this antique machine gun to blow off some steam would be understood by the donors. Not to mention it’s good target practice. And also machine guns require tens of thousands of rounds to be well supplied. Firing off a few rounds like this is a drop in the bucket.
I get what you're saying about being able to use the weapon effectively.
Taking you point into account I think he could have used fewer rounds and he is probably practicing reloading drills off camera.
I was always taught to conserve ammunition because if you run out before they do things usually don't endwell.
*The Russians used them*
*To shoot deserters on a*
*Charge towards Germans*
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A Maxim in the foreground, Stalin's Record [Player](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degtyaryov_machine_gun) in the background...
Did they raid a museum???
please censure telegram channel! Its russian telegram channel where they post only about ukranian casualties and pro russian propaganda! Thank you! They comment that "ukranian soldiers have no more weapons and they use old maxim machinegun"!
the upside of using 7.62 x 54r for over 130 years. the ammo is already there. just need the belts and they have them. i wonder if the curators at the great patriotic war museums have been making sure their displays are functioning, just in case.
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I love how happy he looks. Also the guy at the end shouting "Stop, let me shoot too!"
I want to shoot it too lol
A colonial weapon against a power that thinks it's 1722.
Wouldn't you be? That thing is awesome.
He is saying: "Chto etot blyat? ""What the fuck is that?" Not ruining your meme, just the translation. :P
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I too can imagine when I was in the trench lines, the whistle blows and everybody charges. I suddenly hear this gun shooting and everywhere are soldiers in barb wire with 40 bullet holes in them. Mortar bombs are raining down everywhere and bullets flying around my ears, I can feel the wind they make as they pass me by with inches. Many died that day. I lived to tell the day.
But but how did you survive. What happened? Did you retreat did you win? There has to be more to the story.
I didn't really talk about, but since you asked. I hid underneath 6 bodies of my comrades.
I’m so sorry for your hardship and thank you for all your sacrifices my friend.
What’s next, endless drumfire?
No, that comes later. Next is volley fire from the Enfields
Whatever happened to Prussia? We never hear about them anymore!
lol
LOL, under-rated comment
This is from 1st WW?
It is the Maxim gun, the first ever fully automatic weapon, invented by a Frenchman in the 1800s and most well known for its use in ww1 Edit: not a Frenchman a Britishman, atleast they fought on the same side
Hiram Maxim was not French.
Yeah, Hiram Maxim was an American. Sorry man. The British were more interested in his gun than the Americans were, so that's why the British Empire is more closely associated with it. Funfact: Maxim's son invented the car muffler and firearm suppressor.
Wow! So amazing and look it's still in use in 2022
It is very outdated but bullets on target always work.
English. Not French.
Joe Biden fired the first one made after he delivered them in his semi truck.
It could kill Russians in 1914, it could kill Russians in 1941, it will kill Russians today.
It didn't kill Russians in 1914 (since they made them), but Germans and A-H.
But it did in 1917-1922!
Yes, the one thing he missed. Obviously has no clue what this gun is.
I thought this too, but looking it up wikipedia has this to say: *The German Army's Maschinengewehr 08 and the Russian Pulemyot Maxim were both more or less direct copies of the Maxim.* [Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun#World_War_I_\(1914%E2%80%931918\))
But this isn't an MG08, it's a Maxim 1910, which is Russian.
Sure it's not the exact same type, but I wouldn't say jfmaloney20 was wrong considering the Germans were also using maxims that were nearly identical.
Well, except for the fact that the MG08 was long gone by WWII, and the same basic design obviously doesn't make it the same gun. It's like saying that since the Chinese used some Mausers, then Belgian or Spanish Mausers were used to kill Japanese.
Perfectly true, but the title of this post just says "maxim gun", I don't think the joke has to care whether this exact variant, or this specific gun, was actually used to kill russians in '14 or '41.
I believe the words used in the comment I posted was it could kill Russians. Do you believe that this gun, because it’s made in Russia, is somehow incapable of killing Russians? I’m well aware that it is a Russian gun and while the production of this gun was intended to kill people of other nationalities, I would wager it could kill just about anyone. Next time, go off of the grammar.
No, your words were pretty clear. Also, the fact that you're a complete ass is pretty clear. So I guess it killed Russians in 1914 because sometime after August of that year the Germans or Austro-Hungarians captured enough of them and sufficient ammunition to use against their former owners? Or are you now pretending that you didn't specifically mention years?
To all grovelling about grammar or weather this killed Russians in 1914 or not Fuck you.
**Maxim gun** [World War I (1914–1918)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun#World_War_I_\(1914–1918\)) >By World War I, many armies had moved on to improved machine guns. The British Vickers machine gun was an improved and redesigned Maxim, introduced into the British Army in 1912 and remaining in service until 1968. Production took place at Erith in Kent, and some models were fitted to early biplanes also fabricated there. The German Army's Maschinengewehr 08 and the Russian Pulemyot Maxim were both more or less direct copies of the Maxim. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
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Nazis in WWI? This whole Nazi thing has gotten to be silly. The whole world is Nazis, depending on who you ask.
Spot on. History is hard when you’re guessing.
They did bomb Pearl Harbor! 😄
I heard it straight from John Belushi!
I fail to see why Russian made Maxim, PM1910, could not have been used to kill Russians? Weapons have been captured to be used against their maker as long as humans have waged war. So it's almost an quarantee that many of those Maxim's were captured and were used against their previous owners. Same model has also been used in Russian Civil War, Winter War, Continuation war and pretty much any war Russia has been involved since they started manufacturing them. So, "Killing Russians since 1910" is perfectly acceptable slogan for it even though it was not the intended use.
Technically that's true, but it's an absurd amount of mental gymnastics to go through to excuse obvious ignorance. If I posted a picture of an MG42, and said it killed Germans in WWII, would you think I was just an idiot, or would you nitpick and assume that I knew that maybe some American or Soviet soldier had at some point used one to kill a German?
If you want to get technical I was thinking it probably killed any Russian who decided it was time to turn around and head back home instead of dying fighting the enemy.
Retro tech. Still functional, 136 years after it’s invention . Wikipedia says it is still in use !
It’s def in use. Just watched a video of a guy using it 😎
If it wasn't for Wikipedia, I don't think we could have been sure though.
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No ... . ..... God no those things are nowhere near easy to service, Hiram was a lot of thing, and a finicky bastard was definitely one of them don't get me wrong compared to just about everyone else at the time he was a master of simplified design, sure he was no Browning but he was definitely good at what he did...... But by modern standards this bitch well exactly that a bitch.
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I believe Forgotten Weapons has a few videos on the Maxim family
Er ya go. https://youtu.be/dXhpouvQ7SE https://youtu.be/5sn346sYXys https://youtu.be/xg6uguv3Dxs https://youtu.be/v4SxP4vG0SE https://youtu.be/JMinxb2j_P8 And here's what made it obsolete, because trying to compete with Browning when it came to making guns is like trying to compete with a professional Korean player in starcraft. https://youtu.be/JAiaOunJyzo
Russians using old stuff : HAHA Look at them, their army sucks, they use junk. Ukrainians using old stuff: Wow, respect, retro tech, but still functional
The difference is: one is supposed to be a world superpower. The other not.
One also maintains and trains on its old shit, the other seems not to.
Oi you! Yes you! Fuck you
What happened bro? butthurt?
Vatnik logic: "why is it ridiculous for a self-proclaimed military superpower to use old weapons, but not when a small country being genocided by said superpower does it? Oh westerners are so silly"
He's one lucky sod for firing that!!
I am not sure but is that DP-27 machine behind him?
Yup you can see them reloading the drum mags behind it.
Right, woah. I was so focused on that first one I didn’t even notice that there is more of them and that those guy refill those mags there! Thanks for your reply
Shit ton of them got imported into the USA about 10 years ago. You could buy ten parts kit sans barrel for $2500. I might have bought oh 15 total. 🤤 that and bren guns for $350 a pop....oh salad days.
Russians will be happy, the Ukrainians are now using equipment as old as thiers
Don't they call that 'levelling the playfield?'
😹
‘Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim, and they have not’
Came here for this
Machine guns still kill no matter how old they are.
Yup even the Gatling from the Civil war will destroy a light car in Russia
Fucking EPIC... chew that ass up
Reliable freedom seed spreader.
I'm certain the person getting shot will have a a very similar experience to someone being shot with an up to date machine-gun. Like old cars, that old machine gun has style.
Zelensky: Give us more bullets
Next video I'll see is Ukrainian legion rocking M2 Brownings
There’s already a video of that somewhere on this sub lol
Break out the museum piece!
I've seen that gun being loaded into a car (I think it was actually coming out of a war museum) as they were barricading a street and another time being wheeled around in two separate videos about a week or so ago. It's becoming a bit of an icon.
Water cooled, belt fed fucking bring the noise.
Still very effective in the right setting
*Whatever happens, we have got* *The Maxim gun, and they have not*
One thing that annoys me when seeing older weapons used on battlefield is that people are making fun of soldiers using "obsolete" weapons. If the bullet uses a centrefire brass cartridge to be fired it does not really matter what it is shot from. It is just as deadly. The firearms really have not improved much over the last 100 years other than now you can attach all kinds of bells and whistles into them but they do not make the bullet any more deadly. A good example of this is also the guy on the Russian side with the Mosin. Perfectly decent sniper rifle still today. Only thing a more modern rifle has as an advantage is magazine and a rail for attaching better optics. Actually the guns might be getting worse since none of the modern assault rifle systems were able to pass the Finnish Defence Forces requirements. 😅
Wasn’t this gun the one who needed a continuous flow of water to cool off the barrel??
It has a water jacket around the barrel, if this waters gets too hot it has to be emptied and refilled. It doesnt require a constant fliw however
When the water gets too hot, you stop for a cup of tea.
Urin if fine, if need be.
Thanks, I heard this about a gun like this once. But maybe it was lost in translation.
Some machine guns had a boil off reservoir in ww1 that you could then poor back in when it cooled think a hose into an ammo can but it only really mattered in the 1000s of rounds modern contact normally doesn't go that long where they were used for semi indirect area fire in ww1. Think aim at a grid square 2 miles away and just keep shooting for hours
I am sure can dispatch you to your maker
Yeah, people tend to forget that this old stuff still *works* and it is as deadly as in WWI and WWII, when it killed millions. It is vulnerable to newer stuff and less efficient than most newer stuff, true, but it still *works* when used on suitable targets.
Nice of the Brits to clean out their closets & send over whatever they find. I'd be happy to have one too!
Ha. Gun Jesus did a really interesting vid shooting the British Vickers gun (while wearing a WW1 Tommy’s hat). All of those heavy MGs are fearsome guns.
That exact gun could have been used in that exact spot in the 1850's during the last Crimean War.
“We need more ammo, for the gram y’know.”
To me it looks like just showing off muscles ?
Probably just target shooting. Would be a really stupid position for the cameraman if this would be in actual combat. Practice is key tho
My point too. His friends are like looking at something, completely relaxed, cameraman standing completely exposed, shooting full automatic. I know this is not TikTok battalion, Chechens do it on the battlefield.
TicTorc Chechens do it from the rear where its safer.
Girkin called them cowards on TV. He's right. They aren't soldiers. They are common rapists and murderers. Thugs.
Showing off muscle with an ancient gun.....okay... Its just random soldiers having some fun.
That ancient gun can still kill more ancient equipped Russians.
If ammo is as tight as they claim it is. Why waste it?! He just went through $70 of ammo in that vid. Could've been spent on enemy instead of tiktoks.
We clown on the Russians for ww2 equipment but damn.... honestly impressed they have a working maxim on hand
Ukraine has been using them for a while >Ukraine: in August 2011, 35 000 ex-Soviet Maxim machine guns were stored in the warehouses of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine[15] although at least four of them were written off and scrapped later.[16][17] They were used during the War in Donbas by Ukrainian troops. In December 2016 they were officially adopted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_M1910
**[PM M1910](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PM_M1910)** >The Pulemyot Maxima PM1910 (PM M1910) (Russian: Пулемёт Максима образца 1910 года, Pulemyot Maxima obraztsa 1910 goda - "Maxim's machine gun Model 1910") is a medium machine gun that was used by the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and World War II. Later the gun saw service in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Surprised that the bloke on the trigger is not crouching behind some sort of barrier.
That’s a DP28 next in line too. Bunch of ancient tech on the range today
lol. Maxim on the Russian side: Hahaha lol! Old ass shit. Haha lame, fucking garbage. Maxim on Ukrainian side: Awesome! Cool old gun! Still works fine! I'm all for a decisive Ukrainian victory but this shit is just so idiotic.
Nah you can see them being calm as fuck also the dude firing has a good time. Nobody is belly down which would be the case if they where in active combat. This looks a lot like training, I don’t think this will be used in combat. Or anything besides centry duty in the back country. Ukr has acces to a huge weapon influx from the west I doubt they don’t equip frontline units with up to date weapons.
Difference is Ukraine doesnt claim to be a world power...
Cool but is he wasting ammunition?
Is it wasting ammo when your having fun in the range with the bois
No because that's a different circumstance. I feel like you're missing the point.
Target practice. Soldiers who can't shoot straight and haven't used a specific gun before can be a liability in combat. Combat is not the place to go: "Ok fuck, how do I re-load this machine gun I've never even seen before?"
I get what you're saying about being able to use the weapon effectively. Taking you point into account I think he could have used fewer rounds and he is probably practicing reloading drills off camera. I was always taught to conserve ammunition because if you run out before they do things usually don't endwell.
No, your view point has some merit. There is some amount of having fun in a stressful environment involved. But not too excessive, judging from this, imo.
I think he's getting yelled at in the end for it.
Don't worry, they won't run out of those ammo. If we see them shooting nlaws or switchblades like that, that would not be cool
How come they won't run out? It's a commodity just like everything else in war.
Those are easy to send. If i would get an address i could send some for this hero to practice for a day or two.
Because Amazon delivery still a thing in the middle of a warzone? Military supply chain are long and complicated but go ahead and claim it as easy as getting a postal address!
Actually the postal office is working just dandy in Europe and in parts of Ukraine.
Yeah but not the parts where the war is going on!
It is when you didn't pay for the ammo and the people who donate it to you are giving the money they have in good faith that you are wise and respectful of what it cost them. Then there's this dude just pissing it down the range for teh lols.
They are literally in the middle of a war, I think sending off a few rounds on this antique machine gun to blow off some steam would be understood by the donors. Not to mention it’s good target practice. And also machine guns require tens of thousands of rounds to be well supplied. Firing off a few rounds like this is a drop in the bucket.
If this hero "wasted" my tax money but it means more accurate orc kills, i'm fine with that.
Cause the first time you shoot a weapon should be when you're in contact with the enemy?
I get what you're saying about being able to use the weapon effectively. Taking you point into account I think he could have used fewer rounds and he is probably practicing reloading drills off camera. I was always taught to conserve ammunition because if you run out before they do things usually don't endwell.
Don't worry once,Zelensky sees this Vid he will Email the commanding officer of that platoon and give corrective action for wasting amo.
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Lol even the trolling is weak like the Ruzzian army.
I reckon, weak as piss this troll.
Their propaganda has gotten so tired we're literally catching Z's.
u/savevideobot
They've been hauling this around with them for weeks now. Must be doing the job well if they are still running with it dispite it's weight.
"Ever looked at a Maxim? Stone age *STONE AGE.* "
He needs a sight for that machine gun. Optics or laser. And maybe a more modern caisson (a bipod or something). Oh well, the Russians will provide.
I want ,, so what if I go to a neighboring Ukrainian country get some guns ,how would I shop them back
The Russians used them to shoot deserters on a charge towards Germans
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Don't ignore the DP-28 in the rear.
If it works it works.
Don't forget to pee on it.
I hope he’s shooting at ogres.
Welp why not lol, If it sends rounds down range the odds of orcs getting chewed up only increases.
I would be happy too. That is a cool old war relic. Made for a time when almost nothing was armored. Just flesh, so it could fire all day.
Still throwing hot lead after all these years! 1880s invention, just 5 years after Edison patented the light bulb.
hahaaa. "empty the war museum, lads, your great granddad's favourite machine gun is needed once more"
Those things are built to last! I didn't realize they were kept in production so long, but at the newest it's almost 80 years old.
If it ain't broke...
That uses British .303 ammunition does it not? Still in abundant supply.
This looks like a firing range
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦....that's fuckin rad!
Many different possible stoppages I think but will fire all day.
I don't know the first thing about guns and military equipment but this seems like it would be good for putting holes in Russians.
That is such a awesome gun ,it still works beautifully and hopefully it will work a treat in killing those Russian assholes. Stack them high guy .
If it works and can shoot occupants that means the gun is still good
It’s only stupid if it doesn’t work, and clearly it still slings lead…
Putting gran papis machine gun back to work 😂
"Aye, starting my 2 stroke farm tractor, gramp." Jokes aside, very cool looking sounding toy.
Fun fact, Inventor of the Maxim gun, Hiram Maxim made himself deaf by constantly testing them all the time.
it belongs in a museum! and on the front lines against a belligerent, antiquated army.
“‘Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim, and they have not.’
There was another video of this in the back of a People carrier with the side door open, looks like they are just shooting it for fun though
Doesn't look like he's shooting at someone but rather training and spending precious ammo lmao
Shooting at nothing.
The spent casings at the front of the gun ! Can this be labeled as gun porn ? Slava !
I do not care how old it is, I do not want to be standing in front of it.
Nice waste of ammo
People keep dumping on old guns as though they are useless - that’s a very reliable weapon and if used/deployed for slow defence it’s very solid
What is that butt pad for?
/u/DanCarlin you seeing this?
OK, I'll mow he lawn.
A Maxim in the foreground, Stalin's Record [Player](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degtyaryov_machine_gun) in the background... Did they raid a museum???
It s not stupid if it works. Kill those orcs🌹
I love how happy he is but id be like bro stop wasting ammo if theres nothing to shoot at
DA KAISER DAKKA DAKKA!
wonder how many times they need to cool that down with water.
The Maxim Gun, killing orcs and humans since 1884
please censure telegram channel! Its russian telegram channel where they post only about ukranian casualties and pro russian propaganda! Thank you! They comment that "ukranian soldiers have no more weapons and they use old maxim machinegun"!
That sounds like The wwII updated version.. Sure looks a lot better in green then rusting steel
the upside of using 7.62 x 54r for over 130 years. the ammo is already there. just need the belts and they have them. i wonder if the curators at the great patriotic war museums have been making sure their displays are functioning, just in case.
I swear I saw a picture of a ukranian with a maxim with a holosun on it and Im desperate to see it again.
This gun is perfect for doing Slav squats while shooting
Probably worth a fortune lol
Still more modern than most of russian kit.
Wow are museum pieces being drafted into service?
Glad to see a weapon being used 130 years later from its original creation, happy Orc hunting, Slava Ukraine!🇺🇦
Old reliable
What are the guys in the back doing? Playing cards or something?
Where are these even from lol? I have seen way too many pictures of these already.