It appears that these guns ended production in 1945, however, "there are thousands of them in store in basically pristine condition." And they are still extremely useful weapons even today, so this isn't quite a case of "dragging obsolete weapons out of storage."
Just as there’s apparently still thousands of new-in-box lend-lease M1928 submachine-guns in storage. I’d wager a lot of large countries have similar stockpiles, especially places like Russia that can absolutely afford to just dump shit in random places.
Another example, the US M2 .50 cal machine gun, was designed in 1918 and has been in service from 1933 to present.
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.
Yeah, until humans develop skin that can handle machine gun fire, they'll always be effective at what they do. Maybe a newer model will be more comfortable to fire, accurate, deadly, effective against armor, portable, reliable, etc, but even in 1910 they made them effective enough to prevent people from swarming in their line of fire until someone takes them out.
Precisely. And since these machine guns use water cooling, they might even be the most effective weapon for the job, period. That way they can fire for an extremely long time.
This photo is incredible
Drone:
The future is now, old man!
How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?
As the article states, it's 1943 or later, not 1910.
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