We explore how the Soviet Union sought to replace the aging Maxim by tasking Degtyarev in the late 1920s with creating a single, air-cooled machine gun capable of infantry, vehicle, and anti-aircraft ...

Key Point: During just one day in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme the British lost 21,000 men – many of them killed by Spandau machine guns, the German version of the ...