Talk:Note (The Maxim)

"They were too fragile" and nowadays some firearms are fragile

"They were unreliable" and nowadays some firearms are unreliable

it is possible that the whole thing was a set up to make Maxim machine gun the "best"

there were and other machine guns considered more reliable than the heavy Maxim machine gun such as the Berthier M1908 machine gun, the Schwarzlose M1907 machine gun, the Bergmann machinen gewehr MG02

the early machine guns were considered the best for their era