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WW2 era gear and weapons found from a Russian forest.
O_O! *sees a Vickers Machine Gun* *grabs an axe and wanders off*
A logging I will go, a logging I will go! Hi ho the merry-o, a logging I will go!
Vickers? If it is Russian/Soviet gear then it is a Maxim. (I also like that gun. There is just something about a massive watercooled machinegun that is so endearing. Particularly if it has a gunshield and those tiny wheels for moving it around as well.)
Well, the Vickers and the Russian M1910 were both derived from the Maxim. Other than caliber change, I'm not sure how the M1910 is different from the original. I know that the Vickers is lighter, stronger, and has a muzzle booster.
Probably the biggest fail Deadliest Warrior ever had (and a prime example of why it was canceled shortly after this episode) was in Teddy Roosevelt vs. Lawrence of Arabia. They pitted a Vickers against a Gatling gun, and gave the win to the Gatling for being "more reliable." It went exactly against all fact regarding the guns, simply because the Vickers suffered a single malfunction that was most likely user error while the Gatling didn't. The firing test was only 250 rounds as well, not nearly enough to get a good idea of long-term reliability due to the ease with which statistical flukes can crop up. I guess the story of the 100th Company of the Machine Gun Corps firing a million rounds between 10 guns for twelve hours with zero failures in 1916 was just a myth, eh?