The product is the reduced working model of a machine gun of Maxim. Keeps appearance of the weapon. The original design allows to make raising, descent is charged by cartridges 4х15 mm.

History of the weapon

 The modernized machine gun in 1910 has been accepted on arms of Russian army under the official name " 7,62-mm a machine gun ".

 In shooting arms of armies of the world from first years of XX century more and more strong place borrows a new kind of the weapon - a machine gun. The pioneer in this area American the inventor Hajrem Maxim deservedly is considered. Its first sample who has appeared in 1883, has been quickly enough accepted on arms by a number of the countries. Machine guns have received the name the machine tool as were mounted on special devices - machine tools, at times rather bulky. After successful demonstration of a machine gun in Switzerland, Italy and Austria Hajrem Maxim comes to Russia. Experts of Russian military department have been amazed, having seen the weapon making 666 shots in minute, have ordered to Maxim 12 machine gun in calibre of Russian gun Berdan of 10.67 mm. In May, 1889 machine guns have delivered to St.-Petersburg. Russian the marine sea fleet too has become interested in them and has ordered two samples for carrying out test. Within 1897-1904 Russian marine sea fleet has ordered and has received 291 machine gun of system of Maxim. The company " Sons Vikkers and Maxim " has started to deliver Maxim's machine gun on arms of Russian army in 1899. Gun Berdan by then has already been removed from arms, and Maxim's machine guns have been adapted for calibre of Russian three-ruler of Mosin: 7,62 mm. The machine gun has appeared extremely effective weapon. During the Russian-Japanese war in fight near Mukden the Russian battery armed by sixteen machine guns of Maxim, has beaten off to a turn of heavy Japanese attacks. Having let out tens thousand bullets for rather short time interval, machine guns nevertheless have remained in an excellent technical condition. Approaches to positions of Russian machine gunners were dead bodies which as it was found out subsequently, have made more than half soldier from the Japanese party. The first "Maxim" made in Russia at a factory " the Tula arsenal ", have named model 1905. Russian engineer Vasily Zaharov in 1910 has facilitated Maxim's machine gun. Its model weighed 20 kg, that on some kgs it is easier than model 1905. Russian inventors, the Tula gunmakers P.P.Tretjakov and I.A.Pastuhov, having familiarized with manufacture of machine guns in England, having lead on the Tula small-arms factory extensive design-technological researches, have essentially processed and in many respects have improved "Maxim's" design, and designer A.A.Sokolov has created to it the infantry wheel machine tool. Experience of the First world war has shown, that domestic the machine tool the machine gun did not concede to the best foreign samples of that time. Owing to good stability at shooting, the big capacity of a feeding cartridge tape and effective water system of cooling of a trunk it possessed high accuracy of shooting and ability long to conduct continuous fire that has created to it greater popularity both in Russian, and in Red Army. The machine tool a machine gun 1910г. Not time was exposed to improvements which have essentially raised its operational parameters and have a little lowered industrial expenses at its manufacturing, especially regarding replacement applied originally scarce bronze on steel moulding and hot punching. At last modernization of a machine gun in 1941 on it has been established the simplified sight, the steel receiver is replaced siluminovim, produced moulding under pressure.

 In a casing of system of cooling it has been made a wide mouth (borrowed the Finnish machine gun of the sample 1932), allowed to fill a casing with a snow or an ice in the winter.

 The tiny copy of a machine gun Maxim is made with preservation of appearance of the weapon and an opportunity to make raising and descent by pressing to a trigger hook. Length of a miniature - 195 mm; weight - 1,7 kg. Materials: weapon steel, a brass, a nut.