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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.
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 37 mm version of the Maxim gun used by both sides during World War I QF 1 pounder pom-pom, the British version; 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K), a Soviet World War II anti-aircraft gun; 37 mm anti-tank gun M1930 (1-K), a Soviet World War II anti-tank gun; 37 mm Gun M1, an American World War II anti-aircraft gun
37 mm (1.5 in) 3.7 cm FlaK 36 Nazi Germany: World War II 37 mm (1.5 in) 37-mm air-defense gun M1939 (61-K) Soviet Union: World War II - Cold War 37 mm (1.5 in) 37 mm kan M/98 (Finspång 37 mm naval gun L/35 model 1898) Sweden-Norway: 1890s - Cold War 37 mm (1.5 in) 37 mm kan M/98B (Finspång 37 mm naval gun L/39 model 1901) Sweden-Norway
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 to both the gun, and especially the flare or tracer ammunition it fired.
Multiple-gun mounts were developed for the M2 Browning because the M2's rate of fire (450–550 rounds per minute) for a single gun was too low for anti-aircraft use. [ 2 ] The M45 found use throughout the war as a land-based weapon, particularly during the Battle of the Bulge .
One person was killed and three others were injured during a Christmas Eve shooting at a mall in Colorado, police said, marking at least the second time in two days that gunshots rang out at a ...
T-26 model 1931 with gun plus machine gun armament: [49] [50] twin-turreted version with a 37 mm gun in the right turret (some modern sources mention this tank as T-26 model 1932). There were two models of 37 mm guns in the USSR suitable for mounting in light tanks at that time—the Hotchkiss gun (or its Soviet improved variant PS-1), and the ...