Soviet anti-aircraft "Maxim" heavy machine guns

Soviet anti-aircraft Maxim heavy machine guns and their crews.

Machine guns Maxim installed on anti-aircraft tripod folding designer M.N. Kondakov model 1928. The tripod has a rotary swivel for the Maxim machine gun, the central tube and three telescopic tubular legs. Elevation machine gun on a tripod reaches 88 degrees. Before the Great Patriotic War in the machine-gun company of infantry battalion from across the state were supposed to have one such a tripod.

 

 

 

Location: USSR

Time taken: 1942
Author: Natalia Bode

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