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WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. -- Much interest attaches to a meeting to-day of Hiram Percy Maxim, inventor of the so-called noiseless gun, with Gen. William Crozier, Chief of Artillery of the Army.

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Western Ukraine, a Ukrainian AAA crew, firing a pair of nearly century old truck-mounted PM1919 Maxim guns, engages and successfully downs a Russian Shahed-136 attack drone at near point blank range.

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has given the green light to use the Maxim machine gun in military operations in the country’s southeast KIEV, December 6. /TASS/. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry ...

In January 1884 he set about refining his machine-gun design in a basement flat in east London. One of Maxim's early prototypes could fire 666 rounds in a minute – around 11 bullets every second.

The Maxim gun was a major piece of technology that added greatly to British military superiority in Africa in the late 19th century. This weapon could fire hundreds of bullets a minute and it ...

The socio-historian will explore how 3 different guns have changed history and society at the Assembly Rooms next November ...