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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 was a popular caliber of anti-tank guns in the 1930s; other anti-tank guns of the same caliber included Swedish Bofors gun, Czechoslovakian vz. 34 and vz. 37, Japanese Type 94 and Type 1. Development and testing continued until late 1938.
Maxim's premium handguns — including several that come with braces — retail for about $2,100 to $3,700 on the company's website, considerably more than standard semiautomatic pistols. Maxim's ...
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
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
Support guns. Puteaux 37mm M1916; Kingdom of Hejaz (and Arab tribes) ... Maxim gun; German Empire ... Walther M1918 machine pistol; Rifles.
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.