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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 "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
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 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.
The first "flaming onion" weapon was a 37mm Hotchkiss type, smooth bore, short barreled Gatling-type revolving cannon called a "lichtspucker" (light spitter) that was designed to fire flares at low velocity in rapid sequence across a battle area. This gun had five barrels and could launch a 37 mm artillery shell about five thousand feet (1,500 m).
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
Machine Gun. Maxim machine gun; Vickers machine gun; Grenade. Stielhandgranate; ... Support guns. Puteaux 37mm M1916; Kingdom of Hejaz (and Arab tribes) Edged weapons.