A piercing look at how the Maxim gun reshaped war, tactics, and ethics in the mechanized age.
The Maxim gun uses recoil, belt feed, and water cooling to deliver sustained automatic fire.
Early rapid-fire tools evolved into a true automatic system driven by recoil and continuous cycles.
Defensive fire creates deadly zones; interlocking guns turn terrain into near-impenetrable barriers.
Machine guns push warfare into trench stalemates, redefining courage, cost, and strategy.
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