Interesting Use of Maxims

[mlespaul]

From Museum reenactment of the Petrivskaya battle - reconstruction of release of Kiev on 6 November, 1943

Museum is somewhere north of present day Kiev near Petrivtsi (?)

 

[2fisted]

OMG, we need one of those for RO asap!

Cool pics!

 

[RedGuardist]

Originally that quad-Maxim was ofcourse intended for AA purposes, but proved quite effective also on ground targets. Those were used a lot on ground targets in Winter War, where there obviously was not a lot enemy aircrafts to shoot at.

Finns called them as "urkupyssy", "the organ gun". Propably because it must have made quite sweet music with it

 

[Nestor Makhno]

At the outbreak of the war there was one or more of these in the AA company of every soviet infantry division (theoretically). So they probably were used fairly frequently in ground combat if a unit was getting overrun or something. After that the sovs probably realised their effectiveness for mega suppression and used them to assist in assaults.

Now a quad maxim tachanka: that would be something to see.

 

[Bolt]

For guys who don't know wtf is a tachanka

 

[Nestor Makhno]

It was my namesake's contribution to modern warfare.

 

[myzko]

We really need Maxim guns in RO.. even if they are just static guns

 

[Piron]

Reminds me of a M3 halftrack with a 'quad fifty' (4 .50 hmg's) mount. Originally intended as an AA modification of the original M3, but soon proved devastating against infantry attacks and light armoured vehicles.

 

[mlespaul]

Another:

 

[D3terioNation]

Reloading it will be fun too

 

[Fuhrer Cool]

They got these quads on trucks for Soviet side in Operation Flashpoint Finnish Defence Forces 1.4 WWII mod.

I did some TERRIBLE things with them in the mission editor