Editing Maxim gun (section)

=== World War I (1914–1918) ===
By [[World War I]], many armies had moved on to improved machine guns. The British [[Vickers machine gun]] was an improved and redesigned Maxim, introduced into the British Army in 1912 and remaining in service until 1968. Production took place at Erith in Kent, and some models were fitted to early biplanes also fabricated there. The German Army's [[Maschinengewehr 08]] and the Russian [[Russian M1910 Maxim|Pulemyot Maxim]] were both more or less direct copies of the Maxim.

It also saw use during the [[Russian Civil War]], which followed the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|Revolution]] in 1917. A picture of the period depicts a Maxim gun mounted on a [[tachanka]], a horse-drawn carriage, along with the gunner, firing backwards at a pursuing [[White Army]] regiment. [[Anarchist]]s attribute this mobile setup to [[Nestor Makhno]].

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File:BASA-1221K-1-61-14.jpg|Austro-Hungarian soldiers with a trophy Maxim machine gun in the High Alps, c. 1916
File:Red army soldiers, end of 1920s-beginning of 1930s.jpg|Red Army soldiers with a Maxim machine gun, c. 1930
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