Military costume and weapons of the Russian Imperial army during the Russian-Japanese war

Abstract

The present paper considers the peculiarities of military costume and weapons of the Russian Imperial army during the Russian-Japanese war of 1904 – 1905; classification of the uniforms and weapons of the early 20th; factors that influenced their evolution are analyzed. The fact of rethinking the military experience as a result of many months of fighting, and, as a consequence, the change of methods of formation of the military service and the military weapon systems are explored. In addition, special attention is paid to the study of such group of weapons, such as machine gun "Maxim"; functions that it performed at the moment of appearance in the Russian army and the reasons that by the end of the war led to the understanding of the exceptional value of the machine gun in the upcoming hostilities are studied.