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Maxim–Tokarev
The Maxim–Tokarev (sometimes shortened to MT or M-T) was the first domestic Soviet light machine gun accepted for service. It was developed from the Maxim machine gun M1910 by Fedor Tokarev.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Maxim-Tokarev
- Weapon.image
- Tokarev-s-synom.jpg
- Weapon.caption
- Tokarev and his son posing with their model 1925 machine gun
- Weapon.type
- Light machine gun
- Weapon.origin
- Soviet Union
- Weapon.is_ranged
- yes
- Weapon.used_by
- See
- Weapon.wars
- See
- Weapon.designer
- Fedor Tokarev
- Weapon.design_date
- 1924
- Weapon.production_date
- 1925 – 1927
- Weapon.number
- 2,500
- Weapon.mass
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The Maxim–Tokarev (sometimes shortened to MT or M-T) was the first domestic Soviet light machine gun accepted for service. It was developed from the Maxim machine gun M1910 by Fedor Tokarev.
== History == During World War I and the Russian Civil War, the Soviet army was equipped with light machine guns of foreign manufacture, mostly with the Lewis gun, the Chauchat and the Hotchkiss M1909. By the 1920s, these guns were showing their age, and owing to the Soviet Union's international diplomatic isolation, neither spare parts nor ammunition could be easily obtained for these guns.