To be honest, many looked at German MGs during World War II. Some were attracted by the idea of a single belt-fed machine gun, some by the wild rate of fire, others by the system...
The handle of the medieval sword was very simple, since they fought with such swords in plate gloves. But during the Renaissance, the sword began to gradually turn into a sword, which began to be held by hand...
The weapons of the countries participating in World War II did not fall into oblivion after the end of the war, and we are even talking about the losing sides of the conflict. There were no longer countries where it was produced, there were no longer those enterprises, but...
The British Army is acquiring “smart sights” from the SMASH series. It is expected that such devices will help rifle units effectively combat small UAVs....
Sometimes everything new is a well-forgotten old thing, and what yesterday seemed an anachronism from the First World War or a terrible handicraft again becomes a necessary and widespread thing. Initiative from below sometimes...
Foreign partners are actively transferring obsolete weapons they do not need to the Kyiv regime. So, back in 2022, the Czech Republic shipped a large batch of decommissioned UK vz.59 machine guns....
The progress of military affairs in the middle of the 19th century was so rapid that the military could barely keep up with the designers who were offering more and more new and advanced models of rifles....
It turns out that Africans made homemade firearms, and not only made them, but also actively used them in battles against the British back in the middle of the last century....
The first samples of submachine guns that appeared during the First World War, both in Italy and in Austria-Hungary, were ... “not very intelligible.” It sounded louder, more weighty and more significant in Germany...
For the method of loading a weapon from the muzzle, pouring gunpowder into it and placing a bullet in it, we are unlikely to find an author known to mankind. His name, like the name of the inventor of the wheel, has long ago sunk into oblivion....
In an effort to further simplify the design of the cartridge feeding mechanism, Mannlicher decided to use gravity to feed cartridges and designed a magazine located above the bolt, for which...
Over the course of many years of service, legendary rifles of the 20th century often went through various alterations and modernizations, sometimes quite unusual. And in this article we will look at the history of one of the most unusual...
The very first Mannlicher rifles were not accepted for service and did not go into mass production, but their design speaks of the remarkable intelligence of this designer and...
It often happened that the development of firearms and, in particular, the same rifles, was influenced by factors of a natural geographical nature. For example, the so-called Little Ice Age...
Russian snipers participating in the Special Operation actively use Lobaev Arms rifles. Weapons of several models allow them to hit various targets with high accuracy in a wide range...
Since last year, the Moscow Arms Company has been producing high-precision sniper systems in the Raptor line. Several rifles of this family were previously presented, and recently...
A thing created by a talented person, made skillfully and even with love, but for certain tasks and conditions, finding itself in radically different, specific circumstances, behaves...
It just so happened that in Belgium no one produced weapons. In Liege there were entire streets of gunsmiths. Moreover, some specialized only in locks, others made only barrels, and still others...
The Russian army has begun to receive serial microwave sniper rifles. It is expected that such weapons in the future will replace the well-deserved, but old SVD, and will also give our snipers new opportunities....
In the English army, equipped with the Brown Bess musket, and then in others, it became fashionable to drive the bullet into the barrel by hitting the butt on the ground, without using a cleaning rod. However, this method was not suitable for...
The Kalashnikov Concern begins supplying the latest microwave sniper rifles. The first batch of mass-produced products has been accepted by the customer and will soon be delivered to Russian army units....