Comments by "GunFun ZS" (@GunFunZS) on "11mm Vickers "Balloon Buster" Machine Gun" video.

@Ben-Downlow. nope Maxim himself was an American. The Vickers company had been an outgrowth of Maxim which had for period of time been merged in with the Scandinavian company.... The Germans derived theirs from a license with the maximum company which occurred before it became the Vickers Maxim company..... And a lot of Maxim's ideas happen during a European tour and my understanding is a lot of his prototyping happened in Belgium. And I could be wrong on a lot of the timing of those details. However to call it a German gun is definitely not right. you could call it a pan European gun designed by an American and that be closer to it.
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@bill8791 I study both both. The vickers gun was a derivative of the maxim gun, which had input from most every european power, notably a lot of scandanavian techs, and Belgian, and was primarily invented and developed by Hiram Maxim, and American. Much of the development of the version that became dominant happened while it was Maxim-Nordenfelt. The gun in the video was manufactured by an American company. To call that specifically a British gun, requires willful blindness, and selective notice of facts. So, ~"read more' is not much of a mic-drop win for your position.
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@Ben-Downlow. you should really check out the C&Arsenal video on any of the occurs or Maxim guns. It seems pretty obvious that you would be entertained by them as I was. and at least one thing I can say confidently about that is he would have his information straight. and he does a step better than just reading the book and regurgitating it. he checks whether the book is right. Or whether there is enough information for anybody to be confident, and then he tells that level of confidence or not.
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@bill8791 but not really.
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@bill8791 you tend to refer to all vacuum cleaners as Hoovers. Most of the rest of the world is fairly unconcerned with the internal distinctions that deportions of the United kingdom use to break up the constituents of the British isles. I am aware of them. I also know that many people from the UK tend to disregard these and use the term English and British mostly interchangeably. I suppose if you want to be pedantic about it you can but I ask why you think it would matter whether I specifically was aware of that distinction? I would also dispute the rationale behind designating Vickers as an English company as opposed to a British or vice versa. since the company was essentially almost exclusively marketing to the state itself and most of its projects were built at least partially unstate secrets it is mostly a function of the UK as a whole rather than as Britain or England really. It doesn't work in normal speech to say a thing was UKish, and that is even clumsier when you say this thing has among as many constituent contributors some UK-ish input into its development, hello the product was mostly developed into its final state before the UK input became relevant... See that's kind of clumsy. but if you want to be the patent and a stickler for having the details of fact right that would be the statement you would make.
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