All machine guns of the Russian army. The most complete encyclopedia

The most complete encyclopedia of machine guns of the Russian army. From the first "crankcases" and "rapid-firing guns", tested in battles with the Turks in the Balkans, in Central Asia and China to machine guns of the Russian-Japanese, First World War and Civil Wars. All about the great weapons revolution, which forever changed military affairs and laid the foundation for the era of automatic weapons.
"kings of the battlefields" - machine guns deserved such a title on the fronts of the First World War, where they were massively used not only by infantry, but also by aviation, air defense, fleet, installed on armored vehicles, armored trains, tanks. It is no coincidence that the machine -gun Tachanka became one of the main symbols of the Civil War in Russia.
In the book of the leading historian of small arms, the reader will find exhaustive information about all the machine guns of the Russian army - not only domestic, but also purchased abroad and trophy, like easel ("Maxim", "Vickers", "Colt", "Schwartzlose" , MG.08), and manual ("Lewis", "Madsen", "Gochkis", "Shosh", manual gun machine gun Fedorov), about their structure, production, purchases and features of combat use