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Hiram Maxim originally designed the Pom-Pom in the late 1880s as an enlarged version of the Maxim machine gun.Its longer range necessitated exploding projectiles to judge range, which in turn dictated a shell weight of at least 400 grams (0.88 lb), as that was the lightest exploding shell allowed under the Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868 and reaffirmed in the Hague Convention of 1899.
The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim.It was the first fully automatic machine gun in the world. [15]The Maxim gun has been called "the weapon most associated with imperial conquest" by historian Martin Gilbert, [16] and was heavily used by colonial powers during the "Scramble for Africa".
The "37 mm" refers to the inside diameter of the barrel of the gun, and therefore the diameter of the projectile it fires. However, the overall size and power of the gun itself can vary greatly between different weapons, in spite of them all being called "37 mm" guns. The 37 mm version of the Maxim gun used by both sides during World War I
The 37 mm gun M1 was an anti-aircraft autocannon developed in the United States. It was used by the US Army in World War II . The gun was produced in a towed variant, or mounted along with two M2 machine guns on the M2 / M3 half-track , resulting in the T28/T28E1/M15/M15A1 series of multiple gun motor carriages.
Australian troops with a QF 1-pounder Maxim auto cannon captured from the Boers. The first gun to be called a pom-pom was the 37 mm Nordenfelt-Maxim or "QF 1-pounder" introduced during the Second Boer War, the smallest artillery piece of that war. It fired a shell 1 lb (0.45 kg) in weight accurately over a distance of 3,000 yd (1.7 mi; 2.7 km).
The SockelFlak was a gas-operated automatic cannon which fired a 37 mm (1.5 in) steel base fused explosive round with two brass driving bands. [4] The gun was mounted on a light three-legged pedestal mount with a seat for the gunner and could be broken down into four loads for short-range transport or carried in one piece on a cart by a two ...
37/38 mm gas/flare guns possessed with cartridges containing wood pellets, rubber pellets or balls, or bean bags are classified as destructive devices for purposes of the Gun Control Act, 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44, and the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. Chapter 53. Rounds that are considered anti-personnel include: Less-lethal rounds:
Hotchkiss cannons like this were used as naval guns, infantry support guns, and anti-aircraft guns by Germany during World War I. A Maxim Flak M14 Anti-Aircraft Crew. A 3.7 cm SockelFlak L/14.5. The flaming onion was a 37 mm Hotchkiss revolving-barrel anti-aircraft gun used by the German army at the beginning of World War I, the name referring ...