In 1866, Hiram Maxim, an American engineer, tried out a rifle for the first time and found himself wondering how he could make it better. The result was the Maxim gun ...

The Maxim gun was the world’s first true machine gun - a weapon that fundamentally changed the nature of warfare. Invented in the 1880s by Hiram Maxim, it used recoil energy to fire automatically, ...

The Browning M2 entered U.S. service in 1921 and remains operational today despite predating jets, radar, helicopters, and modern armored warfare. U.S. military attempts to replace the M2 repeatedly ...