Maxim machine gun

I was listening to the Ukraine the latest podcast from The Telegraph in London:

https://art19.com/shows/ukraine-the-latest/episodes/354090ba-28bb-458f-82d8-1dc2392942b7

and this BBC report on Bakhmut by Quentin Sommerville was mentioned:

  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64955537

When I heard/saw the name: Maxim, I immediately thought of The Old Man, Hiram Percy Maxim.

Apparently they are using a Maxim machine gun from either the late 19th or early 20th century, 100 years old ?

source:  https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/844D/production/_128996833_f5489081-adb1-4e62-a28d-81e01351ad2e.jpg

Here is the part where the Maxim is mentioned:

Two nights before, the 28th Brigade was attacked by Russian infantry and tanks. In a timbered gun position below ground, the cold, rain drips through the roof onto the dirt floor, and there, peering out into the bare landscape, is a Maxim belt-fed machine gun with stout iron wheels.

"It only works when there is a massive attack going on…then it really works," says Borys. "So we use it every week".

And this is how the battle for Bakhmut is being fought, as winter turns to spring in 21st Century Europe. A 19th Century weapon still mows down men by the score in the black Ukrainian earth.

I don't know if TOM had any involvement with this, but certainly his Dad was involved !

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm