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The light machine gun of choice for the Red Army in WorldWarTwo. Just like the BAR and M26 above, it more or less is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot machine-rifle]]. It has a distinct round horizontal-mounted pan (ie flat drum) magazine owing to the need to reliably fire the standard Russian 7.62x54R cartridge, giving it a very distinct look (and a significantly higher magazine capacity than box-fed machine guns, at 47 rounds). It also has exceptional reliability and a high tolerance for dirt, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome in tests it fired even after being buried in sand and mud]]. It fired more slowly than competing designs, [[BoringButPractical but the reduced rate of fire eliminated the need for a changeable barrel]]. The Soviets built it in plenty of versions and issued it to infantry troops as well as fitting it to tanks, aircraft, even the sidecars of motorcycles. Many were captured by Finland during World War II (nearly 10,000 captured, compared to the 3,400 M26 machine guns they built themselves), enough that they simply stopped making the M26 and used the DP as their primary machine gun for the duration of the war and beyond. There are still some of them in service that were fired as recently as the 2011 Libyan Civil War and the 2001-present Afghanistan War. After WWII, the Soviets issued a conversion kit to enable the Degtyarev to be belt-fed; the resulting '''RP-46''' is a relatively rare sight, being not particularly well-known, but at one point it was the standard light machine gun of the Red Army being being replaced by the RPD.

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The light machine gun of choice for the Red Army in WorldWarTwo. Just like the BAR and M26 above, it more or less is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot machine-rifle]]. It has a distinct round horizontal-mounted pan (ie flat drum) magazine owing to the need to reliably fire the standard Russian 7.62x54R cartridge, giving it a very distinct look (and a significantly higher magazine capacity than box-fed machine guns, at 47 rounds). It also has exceptional reliability and a high tolerance for dirt, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome in tests it fired even after being buried in sand and mud]]. It fired more slowly than competing designs, [[BoringButPractical but the reduced rate of fire eliminated the need for a changeable barrel]]. The Soviets built it in plenty of versions and issued it to infantry troops as well as fitting it to tanks, aircraft, even the sidecars of motorcycles. Many were captured by Finland during World War II (nearly 10,000 captured, compared to the 3,400 M26 machine guns they built themselves), enough that they simply stopped making the M26 and used the DP as their primary machine gun for the duration of the war and beyond. There are still some of them in service that were fired as recently as the 2011 Libyan Civil War and the 2001-present Afghanistan War. After WWII, the Soviets issued a conversion kit to enable the Degtyarev to be converted to a belt-feed; the resulting '''RP-46''' is a relatively rare sight and not particularly well-known.  Nevertheless, it served as the standard light machine gun of the Red Army until replaced by the RPD.

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23rd Mar '13 11:09:30 AM LTR

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Literally the grand-daddy of them all, the Maxim was the first “True” machine gun that we would recognise. Developed by Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, an American-born British inventor, whose attempts to make a fortune via invention in America early on failed until he was [[BeamMeUpScotty (allegedly)]] told that if he wanted to make money he should “Invent something to help those damn-fool Europeans cut their throats more efficiently”. He noticed that when a gun fired, it produced recoil, and rather than seeing this as a nuisance he realized that this could be used to force the spent cartridge out of the gun and load a new one. [[MoreDakka Over 600 times a minute in fact.]] So he made a water-cooled tripod mounted belt fed weapon and went to Europe and tried without much success to sell the idea. Then he came to Britain, where they had been having a spot of bother pacifying the natives in… [[TheBritishEmpire well in most of the world,]] and they liked the gun so much they knighted him. Suddenly the rest of the world decided they wanted the gun too. The Maxim became pretty much the standard machine gun of the world during the first world war with notable exceptions of America, where they decided that they were [[BystanderSyndrome never getting involved]] so [[TemptingFate they didn’t need to standardize machine guns]] and France, where they insisted on using French designs ([[ReliablyUnreliableGuns all of which were horrible]]). Italy also ended up with out them, but they ''had'' to adopt a more unreliable Italian design due to the Italian government failing to get the machine guns [[WhatAnIdiot they had already paid for]] due the start of WorldWarI (note that the Italians also had another design comparable with the Maxim. Sadly, the guy who had designed the unreliable model was among the people assigned to choose the gun to replace the Maxim with, [[ForegoneConclusion with obvious results]]). The British went one further with [[OhCrap an improved version,]] the Vickers, which was used until the 70’s by Britain and the 90’s by other nations. This was mostly because it never broke: it could jam if the ammo fed into it was dud, and drills existed to get the duds out and the weapon firing again, but the gun itself was almost indestructible. In one 1916 test, ten guns of the 100th machine gun company fired one belt short of one million rounds in twelve hours, and only two guns encountered problems: all ten were serviceable again following basic maintenance.

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Literally the grand-daddy of them all, the Maxim was the first “True” machine gun that we would recognise. Developed by Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, an American-born British inventor, whose attempts to make a fortune via invention in America early on failed until he was [[BeamMeUpScotty (allegedly)]] told that if he wanted to make money he should “Invent something to help those damn-fool Europeans cut their throats more efficiently”. He noticed that when a gun fired, it produced recoil, and rather than seeing this as a nuisance he realized that this could be used to force the spent cartridge out of the gun and load a new one. [[MoreDakka Over 600 times a minute in fact.]] So he made a water-cooled tripod mounted belt fed weapon and went to Europe and tried without much success to sell the idea. Then he came to Britain, where they had been having a spot of bother pacifying the natives in… [[TheBritishEmpire well in most of the world,]] and they liked the gun so much they knighted him. Suddenly the rest of the world decided they wanted the gun too. The Maxim became pretty much the standard machine gun of the world during the first world war with notable exceptions of America, where they decided that they were [[BystanderSyndrome never getting involved]] so [[TemptingFate they didn’t need to standardize machine guns]] and France, where they insisted on using French designs ([[ReliablyUnreliableGuns all of which were horrible]]). Italy also ended up with out them, but they ''had'' to adopt a more unreliable Italian design due to the Italian government failing to get the machine guns [[WhatAnIdiot they had already paid for]] due to the start of WorldWarI (note that the Italians also had another design comparable with the Maxim. Sadly, the guy who had designed the unreliable model was among the people assigned to choose the gun to replace the Maxim with, [[ForegoneConclusion with obvious results]]). The British went one further with [[OhCrap an improved version,]] the Vickers, which was used until the 70’s by Britain and the 90’s by other nations. This was mostly because it never broke: it could jam if the ammo fed into it was dud, and drills existed to get the duds out and the weapon firing again, but the gun itself was almost indestructible. In one 1916 test, ten guns of the 100th machine gun company fired one belt short of one million rounds in twelve hours, and only two guns encountered problems: all ten were serviceable again following basic maintenance.

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Literally the grand-daddy of them all, the Maxim was the first “True” machine gun that we would recognise. Developed by Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, an American-born British inventor, whose attempts to make a fortune via invention in America early on failed until he was [[BeamMeUpScotty (allegedly)]] told that if he wanted to make money he should “Invent something to help those damn-fool Europeans cut their throats more efficiently”. He noticed that when a gun fired, it produced recoil, and rather than seeing this as a nuisance he realized that this could be used to force the spent cartridge out of the gun and load a new one. [[MoreDakka Over 600 times a minute in fact.]] So he made a water-cooled tripod mounted belt fed weapon and went to Europe and tried without much success to sell the idea, until he came to Britain, where they had been having a spot of bother pacifying the natives in… [[TheBritishEmpire well in most of the world,]] and they liked the gun so much they knighted him. Suddenly the rest of the world decided they wanted the gun too. The Maxim became pretty much the standard machine gun of the world in the first world war, with notable exceptions of America, where they decided that they were [[BystanderSyndrome never getting involved]] so [[TemptingFate they didn’t need to standardize machine guns]], France, where they insisted on using French designs ([[ReliablyUnreliableGuns all of which were horrible]]), and Italy, where they ''had'' to adopt a more unreliable Italian design due to the Italian government failing to get the machine guns [[WhatAnIdiot they had already paid for]] due the start of WorldWarI (note that the Italians also had another design comparable with the Maxim. Sadly, the guy who had designed the unreliable model was among the people assigned to choose the gun to replace the Maxim with, [[ForegoneConclusion with obvious results]]). The British went one further with [[OhCrap an improved version,]] the Vickers, which was used until the 70’s by Britain and the 90’s by other nations. This was mostly because it never broke: it could jam if the ammo fed into it was dud and drills existed to get the duds out and the weapon firing again, but the gun itself was almost indestructible. In one 1916 test, ten guns of the 100th machine gun company fired one belt short of one million rounds in twelve hours, and only two guns encountered problems: all ten were serviceable again following basic maintenance.

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Literally the grand-daddy of them all, the Maxim was the first “True” machine gun that we would recognise. Developed by Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, an American-born British inventor, whose attempts to make a fortune via invention in America early on failed until he was [[BeamMeUpScotty (allegedly)]] told that if he wanted to make money he should “Invent something to help those damn-fool Europeans cut their throats more efficiently”. He noticed that when a gun fired, it produced recoil, and rather than seeing this as a nuisance he realized that this could be used to force the spent cartridge out of the gun and load a new one. [[MoreDakka Over 600 times a minute in fact.]] So he made a water-cooled tripod mounted belt fed weapon and went to Europe and tried without much success to sell the idea. Then he came to Britain, where they had been having a spot of bother pacifying the natives in… [[TheBritishEmpire well in most of the world,]] and they liked the gun so much they knighted him. Suddenly the rest of the world decided they wanted the gun too. The Maxim became pretty much the standard machine gun of the world during the first world war with notable exceptions of America, where they decided that they were [[BystanderSyndrome never getting involved]] so [[TemptingFate they didn’t need to standardize machine guns]] and France, where they insisted on using French designs ([[ReliablyUnreliableGuns all of which were horrible]]).  Italy also ended up with out them, but they ''had'' to adopt a more unreliable Italian design due to the Italian government failing to get the machine guns [[WhatAnIdiot they had already paid for]] due the start of WorldWarI (note that the Italians also had another design comparable with the Maxim. Sadly, the guy who had designed the unreliable model was among the people assigned to choose the gun to replace the Maxim with, [[ForegoneConclusion with obvious results]]). The British went one further with [[OhCrap an improved version,]] the Vickers, which was used until the 70’s by Britain and the 90’s by other nations. This was mostly because it never broke: it could jam if the ammo fed into it was dud, and drills existed to get the duds out and the weapon firing again, but the gun itself was almost indestructible. In one 1916 test, ten guns of the 100th machine gun company fired one belt short of one million rounds in twelve hours, and only two guns encountered problems: all ten were serviceable again following basic maintenance.

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