In 1893, 5,000 Zulus in Africa armed with bows and arrows surrounded 50 British soldiers.
The British took out a mysterious weapon and killed 3,000 Zulus in a few minutes, leaving the remaining 2,000 to flee.
The British military used the Maxim machine gun, which was a lethal appearance of the Maxim machine gun, which showed the world:
Hot weapons versus cold weapons, the latter is a unilateral slaughter.
After the Maxim machine gun was used in war, it showed crazy combat effectiveness.
During World War I, the Germans fought with the British on the Somme.
The Germans held the Maxim machine guns in their hands, calmly greeting the British charge after charge, and the Germans nailed the British to the machine gun positions, making it impossible for them to advance.
In just one day, the British lost 60,000 troops, setting a world record for single-day casualties.
It took the British army 12 days to advance 2-4 kilometers.
The German Maxim machine guns, trenches, and barbed wire formed a triangle of death, and the British could not find the north.
If it were not for the British army throwing in tanks, the Germans would still have the upper hand, which is the power of the Maxim machine gun.
The Maxim machine gun is named after the inventor, Maxin, who was originally an inventor who invented perm sticks, automatic fire extinguishers, and even made light bulbs.
But Edison squeezed him out by various means and forcibly bought his company.
Disheartened, Maxine left the United States for Europe.
His friend said: "If you want to make a fortune, invent a weapon that allows Europeans to kill each other." ”
When Maxine listened, it made sense, and he decided to study weapons. At that time, the Gatling machine gun was particularly hot on the battlefield, with a rate of fire of up to 200 rounds per minute.
But the Gatling machine gun was not very easy to use, and it had to shake the handle to work, which was not at all laborious.
Maxine wants to make a fully automatic machine gun, and the first problem he encounters is how to make the machine gun automatically change bullets, where does the power come from.
Makqin remembered that when he was hunting with his brother when he was a child, he would have recoil when shooting, and his shoulder hurt, but it was actually the gas of gunpowder.
Makqin used the power of gunpowder gas to make a mechanical structure, every time a bullet was fired, gunpowder gas would open the chamber, throw the empty bullet casing, and push the spring mechanism to feed and close the chamber.
In this cycle, the bullets can keep hitting.
The Rate of Fire of the Maxim machine gun reached 600 rounds per minute, three times that of the Gatling machine gun.
But at the same time, it also brings a problem, the bullet rate of fire is too fast, the inside of the chamber is too hot, and it is easy to explode.
Maxine designed a water cooler to help cool the machine gun.
After being used by the British army, the Maxim machine gun was quickly put into the battlefield and was a sharp weapon for combat.
In the First World War, the Maxim machine gun took the lives of more than a million young men and made millions of young women widowed, and people gave them the nickname "widow-making machine"!