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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:38 pm
by Pirkka
Basic Soviet M1902 Maxim, but with tripod rather than wheeled carriage. See the 1955 Finnish film 'Tuotematon Sotilas' (Unknown Soldier) for full details, there's loads of them in that (as well as a PzIV masquerading as a T-34! How weird is that!)
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:38 pm
by von papen
thanks! did it look like the 1910 maxim?
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:43 pm
by Pirkka
No, it looked like a PzIV
Seriously, no, it looked more like a WW1 British Vickers than a Maxim. I also have a Finnish Wargames army and I use Vickers HMGs for Maxims in that, as they're the closest match.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 11:16 am
by von papen
they look like panzer 4s, that must of been scary for the russians!
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 2:41 pm
by Franz repper
Had a tv program on over here on the Suomi MP and it said that Hitler had a Suomi .And that in the Finnish SS Batt some of the Finns got hold of the Suomis from Finland and used them
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:42 am
by Anton Bärtig
Yes Franz. You are absolutely right. Adolf got it on 27.6.1942 from Marshal Mannerheim as a present. Rumor tells that Adolf himself was shooting with that weapon afterwards trying to find the secrets of the gun because it was so famous. Finn SS Batt had several hundreds of those SUOMI MPs on use. When Finns left they gave them to the Estonian volunteers as well as the other machineguns. German troops in Lapland got only 120 Suomis and When they left from Finland they used them in the other fronts.