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== Variants and derivatives == [[File:7.5mm MG Maxim.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Swiss Maschinengewehr System Maxim Ord 1894 chambered in the 7.5 mm GP11 round]] * Maxim five-barrel machine gun, fed from overhead inserted magazines and later belt-fed. * [[Vickers machine gun]]: earlier Maxims had been chambered for earlier British service cartridges, but the Vickers was produced for export available in most of the different calibres and cartridges used by countries around the world, and including a large caliber (.50 inch) as used on [[Royal Navy]] warships. The machine gun was {{convert|20|lb|0}} lighter and had been tested by the Army in 1909.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Graham|first=Dominick|title=The British Expeditionary Force in 1914 and the Machine Gun|journal=Military Affairs|date=December 1982|volume=46|issue=4|pages=190–193|doi=10.2307/1987613|jstor=1987613}}</ref> * [[MG 01|Maschinengewehr 01]], made by [[Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken]] (DWM) * [[MG 08]] derived from MG 01 ** Its export version DWM 1909 commercial, featuring the naval tripod mount of the MG 08 instead of the sled ** German indigenous derivatives (e.g., MG 08/15) * Type 24 heavy machine gun, Chinese variant of DWM 1909 * [[MG 11|Maschinengewehr Modell 1911]], Swiss variant of the DWM 1909 made by [[Waffenfabrik Bern]] * Russian/Soviet [[PM M1910|Pulemyot Maxima PM1910]] and lighter variants [[Maxim–Tokarev]] and [[PV-1 machine gun]] * Finnish [[Maxim M/09-21|Maxim M09/21]] and [[Maxim M/32-33]] * American M1904 * Romanian-made 6.5 mm version, at least 8–12 were produced and were used by the Romanian Danube Flotilla during [[World War I]]<ref>Marian Sârbu, ''Marina românâ în primul război mondial 1914–1918'', Editura Academiei Navale Mircea cel Bătrân, 2002, pp. 144 and 150</ref> * [[MG 18 TuF]] Anti-tank & Anti-aircraft gun
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