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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 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
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In addition, the M3 on different pedestal mounts was mated to a number of other vehicles, resulting in an assortment of 37 mm gun motor carriages. Only the M6 reached mass production. 37 mm gun motor carriage T2 (Bantam jeep). [50] 37 mm gun motor carriage T8 (Ford 4x4 "Swamp Buggy"). [51] 37 mm gun motor carriage T13, T14 (Willys 6x6 "Super ...
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 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.
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.