here is the fun excersise...
- Oleg Grigoryev
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here is the fun excersise...
Try to name all the MGs in the picture
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RE: Here is a "fun" exercise.
Greetings to both citizen Oleg and the community as a whole. In regards to your challenge as expressed on Friday - August 08, 2003 - 8:30am, yours truly is at a loss for the proper identity of the vintage ordnance in your photograph. Unfortunately for old Uncle Bob, all of my infantry weapon references are in storage along with a myriad of other historical works. However, a number of the weapons "appear" to be from the Czarist era and a few from the Soviet era. Apart from that "brilliant" observation of mine, I have been wondering how water cooled machine guns operated when the air temperature fell below zero degrees centigrade OR thirty two degrees Fahrenheit. It's just something to ponder. Well, that's my two kopecks on the subject. As always, I would like to bid you a wonderful day over in the Motherland.
Best Regards,
Uncle Bob 8)
Best Regards,
Uncle Bob 8)
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Here's my stab at this
From left to right
Vickers .303 GB
Browning Model 1917 USA
Vickers-Maxim .303 GB
Saint-Etienne Modele 1907 France
Maxim 1908-15 (MG08) Germany
Hotchkiss Modele 1914 France
and the one in front
Schwarzlose Maschinegewher Modell 08 Austria-Hungary
There is also one on the far right, but not enough for me to guess on
Cheers
Tony
From left to right
Vickers .303 GB
Browning Model 1917 USA
Vickers-Maxim .303 GB
Saint-Etienne Modele 1907 France
Maxim 1908-15 (MG08) Germany
Hotchkiss Modele 1914 France
and the one in front
Schwarzlose Maschinegewher Modell 08 Austria-Hungary
There is also one on the far right, but not enough for me to guess on
Cheers
Tony
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Skoda!TonyG wrote:Here's my stab at this
From left to right
Vickers .303 GB
Browning Model 1917 USA
Vickers-Maxim .303 GB
Saint-Etienne Modele 1907 France
Maxim 1908-15 (MG08) Germany
Hotchkiss Modele 1914 France
and the one in front
Schwarzlose Maschinegewher Modell 08 Austria-Hungary
There is also one on the far right, but not enough for me to guess on
Cheers
Tony
Re: RE: Here is a "fun" exercise.
I know that some Maxims (/clones) were modified by Finns by making a hatch into the barrel mantle so snow could be inserted for cooling instead of water. What it comes to keeping liquid coolants liquid, I assume similar chemicals that are used in car radiators during the wintertime would do the trick.Robert Rojas wrote:Apart from that "brilliant" observation of mine, I have been wondering how water cooled machine guns operated when the air temperature fell below zero degrees centigrade OR thirty two degrees Fahrenheit.
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More Maxims (Russian and Finnish variants):
http://www.ankkurinvarsi.net/jaeger/MG1.htm
- thanks to JTV for earlier link tip
During my time in the army, I participated a shooting excercise where some older grunts also had a chance to fire the "old stuff" including Maxim - being a rookie by then I was just assigned to load the belts!
http://www.ankkurinvarsi.net/jaeger/MG1.htm
- thanks to JTV for earlier link tip
During my time in the army, I participated a shooting excercise where some older grunts also had a chance to fire the "old stuff" including Maxim - being a rookie by then I was just assigned to load the belts!