Sometimes a weapon created for quite specific tasks, due to circumstances, ends up where it shouldn’t have ended up, and those for whom it was not intended begin to fight with it in their hands...

The M1895 rifle was unusual primarily in that it used a direct action bolt, as opposed to the more common rotating bolt at the time....

Even before the appearance of the Berthier carbine, the Mannlicher carbine of the 1893 model entered service in Switzerland. It used a direct-action bolt, which was almost identical to the bolt of its own...

French infantry captain Henri-Gustave Delvigne in 1826 proposed an improvement to the breech of rifled rifles, which made them easier to load, and created a rifle that received his name....

Not long ago, journalists in the Northern Military District were shown a new machine gun. Or rather, he is already 7 years old. More precisely, it’s almost 50 years. Well, in general, let's try to understand what and how...

Dreyse worked for Pauli (Poli - V.E. Markevich) and, having gained knowledge and ideas from him, returned to Germany (Prussia), where his rifle with a needle ignition system was adopted in 1836...

Having learned the power of gunpowder, people immediately thought of how to use it to their own detriment, but they did not immediately figure out how to set fire to it inside the barrel...

Mannlicher's designs influenced the design of rifles of other well-known systems, including the famous Mauser rifles....

The 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division began to receive a new assault rifle and a 6,8 mm light machine gun....

In 1868, the Snyder-Enfield rifle demonstrated its effectiveness in Abyssinia, where a detachment of British soldiers numbering 300-400 people was attacked by Abyssinians totaling about 7000...

Although the principle of striking sparks using flint, which had to be struck on an iron plane, was known to various peoples since the beginning of the Iron Age, the idea of ​​​​using flint in order to...

Schiavons are found with both single-edged and double-edged blades of varying lengths, with and without a fuller. In modern Italian, the word schiavo means "slave" and slavo means "Slav"....

One of the representatives of the Kalthoff family of gunsmiths from Solingen in Germany managed to increase the rate of fire of flint muskets of the 1630th century, who, around XNUMX, proposed a multi-charge flintlock...

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...

About the small arms of the Austro-Hungarian army, which were in service before the adoption of the Mannlicher rifle...

About the version of the Maxim machine gun with an oriental flavor, namely, about the version used by Turkey in two world wars...

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...

The history and design of the Remington rifle...

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...