Stories about weapons...

George Kellgren, having moved to the USA from Sweden, founded his own company Kel-Tec CNC Industries INC, or simply KelTec, which became one of the examples of the realization of the so-called "American dream"...

The paratroopers and special forces are armed with hand-held anti-personnel and anti-tank grenade launchers, as well as portable and vehicle-mounted anti-tank missile systems...

The Russian army widely uses the Kornet ATGM. During the Special Operation, this weapon demonstrated its potential and confirmed its calculated tactical and technical characteristics....

It is often said that the Mondragon Model 1907 was the first self-loading rifle officially adopted by the army. In fact, the Madsen-Rasmussen Model 1896 was...

At the end of the 19th century, a whole cohort of designers from different countries began to create an automatic rifle...

PPAs humanity accumulated scientific and technical knowledge, it became less and less. This is quite natural, because the process of accumulating knowledge is continuous. One of the steps...

In the early 1890s, Mexican officer Manuel Mondragon began to solve one of the most difficult technical problems of the time - creating a convenient, portable and reliable self-loading rifle....

Recently, the Kalashnikov concern presented several promising weapons. Some of them are intended for foreign buyers, as they are designed for ammunition that...

Among the great variety of all kinds of pistols that have been created to date and have not found combat use for a number of reasons, there are those that... enjoyed great success with...

Like the previous model, this weapon had a barrel that rolled back along with the bolt inside the barrel casing. The barrel was equipped with its own return spring. The bolt also had a wedge...

It happens that the too strange developments of designers simply frighten ordinary people, and therefore they remain only in the memory of historians. Here's a look at a few of these pistol designs from the last century...

Opinion from the point of view of the manufacturer, blacksmith and user...

This amazing weapon was patented in 1886 and bears two marks from the Liege test bench. The double name means that it was invented by two designers, both of Swedish origin...

Recently, the information field was literally torn apart by news about a new domestic machine gun called PKZ. This is, let’s say, a modernized Kalashnikov machine gun that responds to the requests of fighters in the Northern Military District zone...

Recommendations for the selection, modification and use of smooth-bore weapons for protection against small UAVs in the northwestern military zone...

Although belt-fed light machine guns chambered for a low-pulse intermediate cartridge have been a known, commonplace and widespread thing for almost 50 years, they are not in our Armed Forces....

Attempts to create a weapon capable of independently reloading and firing began quite early and... late at the same time. It turned out that it could have been done even at the very beginning of the 19th century, but...

What is kris? Dagger - if anyone doesn’t know this. But the dagger is unusual. Unusual, to say the least...

The Austrian Lorenz Muster rifle of the 1854 model was the third most common weapon of the American Civil War, that is, most of the northerners and southerners fought in this war not with their own...

This rifle first entered service with the British Army in 1871, replacing the redesigned Snyder-Enfield system. After that, the Martini-Henry rifle was used almost throughout...

We continue the series of stories about weapons that are in the possession of the Penza Regional Museum of Local Lore. And there are many very interesting examples of edged weapons from the past....

To combat light UAVs, smooth-bore guns with shotgun cartridges are widely used. The Tekhkrim company recently developed and introduced new cartridges, originally designed to combat...

The scimitar shape of the blade was characteristic not only of ancient swords such as mahaira, kopis and the same eastern scimitars, but also of India and Nepal, where short rather than long blades spread, but...