German MGs Id

[Hisname]

MODEL 1910 RO.jpg and romanian version , Model 1910

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Can somebody identify the exact model of this Bulgarian Maxim machinegun ? MG08 or an earlier model ?? MG01 perhaps ??

Sturm78

[Hisname]

No, this is not MG01, this is MG08 on a MG01 mount.
MG01 looks different from the outside.

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[Hisname]

MG01

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MG99

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[audrew]

Bulgarian maxim
http://guns.allzip.org/topic/36/1095057.html

[Sturm78]

Hisname wrote
No, this is not MG01, this is MG08 on a MG01 mount.
MG01 looks different from the outside.

Thank you very much for your images, Hisname... Very useful images.
Is the last image with the big artillery-style wheels the MG099 model ??

audrew wrote
Bulgarian maxim
http://guns.allzip.org/topic/36/1095057.html

Thanks for the link, audrew...Nice images

On the other hand, Which is the different between the MG08 and the export model MG09, apart the tripod ?

Sturm78

[silviu-angel]

Real star is rare machine gun mount . is for mountain units . Germans replaced this mount in 1916

[Hisname]

On the other hand, Which is the different between the MG08 and the export model MG09, apart the tripod ?

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[Sturm78]

Thanks, Hisname

A pity that these differences can not de seen in most of the wartime images.....

A last question about these Maxim German machineguns. Any idea about these machineguns ?
The tripod is very rare...

Sturm78

[Hisname]

A pity that these differences can not de seen in most of the wartime images.....

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A last question about these Maxim German machineguns. Any idea about these machineguns ?
The tripod is very rare...

I'm 100% not sure, but I think that this is a modernized tripod from the French machine gun Puteaux APX M1905.
It was also used for the French machine gun St. Étienne Mle 1907.

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Maybe I'm wrong, but this is my personal opinion))

[silviu-angel]

elevation system was changed with the german mdel.

[Sturm78]

Hi Hisname,

It is possible that you are right but the legs seem shortened...

Sturm78

[silviu-angel]

http://www.mitrailleuse.fr/France/Affuts/Affuts.htm

[silviu-angel]

http://lagrandeguerre.1fr1.net/t3105p15 ... e-la-mg-08

[silviu-angel]

http://lagrandeguerre.1fr1.net/t3105p15 ... e-la-mg-08