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Imperial German troops with a captured Maxim gun loaded on a horse, WW1, 1914-1918 (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I get it. You think the gun was mounted on the horse for whatever reason.

Rest assured, Maxim guns usually needed a small team to be operated properly. I highly doubt anyone was stupid enough to try and fire a Maxim gun from a horse.

But the thing is nearly 30kg heavy, so loading it on a horse to move it around is what you'd would do if you had the option.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Ah. Yup that was it. In hindsight makes sense they were just showing off what the captured - not how they planned to use it.

And now that it's not really what happened I am enjoying the idea of a fictional version of a drive by on one of those.