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The Maxim gun was the first recoil-operated machine gun invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1884. It has been called the weapon most associated with British imperial conquest.

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length (km)
1.079
weight (kg)
27200.0
type
Heavy machine gun
used in war
Balkan Wars, Finnish Civil War, Korean War, Russian Civil War, Mahdist War, Boxer Rebellion, Chinese Civil War, Russo-Japanese War, Second Boer War, World War II, First Sino-Japanese War, Second Sino-Japanese War, World War I, Polish–Soviet War, Dervish state

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