Throughline producer Lawrence Wu tells Cristina Kim all about the maxim gun—the world's first automatic machine gun—and the lengths he took to find out exactly how this 19th century weapon would have ...
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, ...
Key Point: During just one day in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme the British lost 21,000 men – many of them killed by Spandau machine guns, the German version of the ...
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The most feared weapons in the history of mankind
From the flaming fury of Greek Fire to the to the deadly efficiency of the Maxim Machine Gun. Join us as we uncover 15 terrifying weapons of war that left soldiers trembling and empires in ruins.
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