A Ukrainian drone has claimed a very old prize: a Russian M1910 machine gun—a type that first appeared in, you guessed it, 1910.
But it wasn’t just any M1910. The machine gun the first-person-view drone blew up seemed to be a Finnish modification of the basic M1910 that made it more reliable in brutal battlefield conditions.
A video that circulated online on Saturday depicts an explosives-laden FPV drone barreling toward a Russian bunker somewhere along the 600-mile front of Russia’s 22-month wider war on Ukraine.
A still-frame from the drone’s video feed clearly shows an M1910 machine gun poking from the bunker.
Yeah, until humans develop skin that can handle machine gun fire, they’ll always be effective at what they do. Maybe a newer model will be more comfortable to fire, accurate, deadly, effective against armor, portable, reliable, etc, but even in 1910 they made them effective enough to prevent people from swarming in their line of fire until someone takes them out.
Precisely. And since these machine guns use water cooling, they might even be the most effective weapon for the job, period. That way they can fire for an extremely long time.