The Maxim machine gun was first introduced to significant combat by the U.S. Army during World War I. In 1912, each regiment received four of these machine guns, believing this quantity would be ...

Tetiana (left) and Olena, members of the female air defense unit known as the "Combat Witches of Bucha," assemble a Maxim machine gun during training in the Kyiv region, Ukraine (Oksana Parafeniuk for ...

A Ukrainian volunteer used a World War I–era Maxim machine gun to shoot down a Russian Kh-69 cruise missile during a massive strike on Kyiv in September 2025. The missile, valued at roughly $500,000, ...

"The First World War was a watershed in human history. Beginning in the European summer of 1914, the conflict reverberated around the world, destroying four empires and costing nearly ten million ...