Is this the oldest firearm still in active service?https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/2041908919690260666
>>65060896Depends on how you count it (the Maxims still in use are 1910 models, not exactly the original design) but it'd be either the Maxim or the Madsen.
>>65060896Twin-linked Maxims go so fucking hard.
>>65060936Aren't most Madsens still in use refurbed M1935s? This would make them younger than the M1910/30 version of the Maxim.
>>65060896>Is this the oldest firearm still in active serviceNyet, stupid crest, glorious russia is most traditional and historical army
>>65061152If you're going to be pedantic, the snow cap Maxims are likely wartime models. Don't know how many got retrofitted with them though
Nah Syria was doing pic related
>>65061152Most of the Madsens still in service went through refurbishment in Brazil, who didn't distinguish model numbers so who knows.Also, thinking about it, if you want to stretch the definition of firearms there're some M1903 Springfields that were converted into line throwers still in service with the US coast guard. Though that would open a whole can of worms and it wouldn't surprise me if some country in Europe still has 19th century Very guns still in service.
>>65061175>>65061182We need a return of medieval cannon just for aura
Finnish snipers with mosin hex receivers
>>65061323These are being phased out though, but the receivers really are old.
Up until a couple of years ago the Canadian rangers still used No.4 Mk I's. 80 years old isn't nearly as old as those Maxim 1910's though. We also recently replaced Inglis High Powers in front line military service.
>>65061323what's the point of a 6 moa sniper rifle
>>65061328Holy fuck how smooth the TRG was after that ancient relic
>>65061346Theyre not. They have heavy barrels made in the 80s
>>65061346Cheap conversion for vast stockpiles of old mosins. And because le meme Simo Häyhä used mosin too.
>>65061346Retard
>>65061346>what's the pointPoking holes
>>65061346Contrary to popular belief it's not the action that limits the accuracy of the Mosin, it's that the originals were put together by RussiansI have seen a civilian Mosin that shot submoa out to 150m too with a barrel swap
>>65060896Why no tracers?
>>65061197The US coast guard still had trapdoors in service as line throwers just a few years ago.I think the brits sitll have some MHs for the same use.
