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MG Platoon - Winter

By: Battlefront Miniatures

Type: Miniatures Pack

Product Line: Flames of War - WWII - Finnish - Infantry

Early

Last Stocked on 8/9/2023

Product Info

Title
MG Platoon - Winter
Sub-category
Publish Year
2013
Dimensions
4x6x1"
NKG Part #
2147533888
MFG. Part #
BFMFI724
Type
Miniatures Pack

Description

Includes one Command Rifle team, two Machine-gun section each with two Maxim HMGs, one Small three-hole base & four Medium four-hole bases.

After the Finns had won their independence from Russia in 1918 they ended up with about 600 Maxim machine-guns. They were either the m/1905 or the m/1910 all of course in Russian 7.62 mm x 54R caliber.

Machine-gun Platoon (Winter) (FI724) These were on the standard Sokolov-type wheeled mounts. Finnish Army designated the m/1905 and m/1910 the M/09 in line with the very similar German Maxim. The Sokolov mount was also designated M/09 and the Maxim in Finnish use became the M/09-09.

The Finns increased their number of Maxim machine-gun by purchasing them from non-Russian sources during the 1920s, including Poland and Italy. A large number of the Finnish M/09-09s were modified to M/09-21. This remounted the Maxim machine-gun on a folding tri-pod roughly similar to that used by the Germans on the MG34 and MG42.

Miniatures are supplied unpainted and may require some assembly.