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Soviet Machine Guns w/Crew

By: Zvezda

Type: Miniatures Box Set

Product Line: Historical Miniatures - WWII - Soviet (1/35) (Zvezda)

4 figures

Last Stocked on 8/2/2019

Product Info

Title
Soviet Machine Guns w/Crew
Publisher
Publish Year
2013
NKG Part #
2147536809
MFG. Part #
ZVE3584
Type
Miniatures Box Set

Description

Whilst its predecessors, such as the Gatling and Gardner guns had a manual crank to power the mechanism for loading, firing and ejecting their cartridges, the Maxim gun used energy from its ammunition.

By World War I, many armies had moved on to improved machine guns. The British Vickers machine gun was an improved and redesigned Maxim (Vickers and Maxim having joined forces) introduced into the British Army in 1912 and remained in service until 1968. The German Army's Maschinengewehr 08 and the Russian Pulemyot Maxima were both more or less direct copies of the Maxim. On the Western Front, 90 percent of bullet related casualties were inflicted by Maxim-type guns.


Miniatures are supplied unpainted and may require assembly.