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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

A Ukrainian drone has claimed a very old prize: a Russian M1910 machine gun—a type that first appeared in, you guessed it, 1910.

But it wasn’t just any M1910. The machine gun the first-person-view drone blew up seemed to be a Finnish modification of the basic M1910 that made it more reliable in brutal battlefield conditions.

A video that circulated online on Saturday depicts an explosives-laden FPV drone barreling toward a Russian bunker somewhere along the 600-mile front of Russia’s 22-month wider war on Ukraine.

A still-frame from the drone’s video feed clearly shows an M1910 machine gun poking from the bunker.

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[-] DaDragon@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

The M2 is slightly different in that it’s been actively kept in service (like the mg3 or the m3 Carl Gustav), which the Maxim hasn’t been (that I know of). Plenty of other old weapon systems have been, though.

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