
20/02/2025
This is the deadliest weapon in the military world:
Hiram Maxim was the first to combine all these innovations into one weapon. The Maxim machine gun, developed around 1884, could fire more than 500 rounds per minute and was effective at distances of more than 2,000 meters. This rifle was very effective and was widely used by European armies before World War I. On the battlefield, the Maxim rifle proved to be very deadly, as seen in the Battle of the Somme where more than 20,000 British soldiers died in one day due to attacks on German defenses using Maxim rifles.