The AK earned its reputation for indestructibility not because its parts last forever, but because its design is unusually tolerant of dirt and neglect—but it wears out and breaks, like any mechanism, and the question...

Short-barreled revolvers were very popular in the United States until the 1950s and 1960s, when many states passed laws restricting or banning concealed carry. But the passage of laws...

The Russian Army is receiving and fielding the "Mnogotochie" series of ammunition. Two different caliber rounds are designed to counter low-flying UAVs of various classes and types.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the IDF's machine gun armament consisted primarily of British Bren and Czechoslovak-supplied ZB-26, ZB-30, ZB-53, and MG.34....

What submachine gun is a must-have in any 30s gangster movie? No need to think twice; everyone will answer correctly – of course, it's the Thompson submachine gun...

The American company "Innovative Arms" offers a wide range of suppressors and components for modern rifles. But the company hasn't forgotten its past, and thanks to its know-how, it has released...

At the end of spring, the information space literally exploded with news about the SMASH 2000L (3000) sight. This was due to several news items about the procurement of these sights and, most importantly, a video from Lebanon showing a lone IDF fighter shooting down...

Only a few grams of bullet fly to the target in a cartridge, but the soldier carries the rest—the brass cartridge case and burning gunpowder—by the thousands, and small arms engineers rely on this simple arithmetic of weight...

Ukraine has once again decided to make something "new." And it's not a drone, a missile, or a kamikaze boat with missiles on board, but... a very ordinary submachine gun, presented at an exhibition...

The .338 Norma Magnum, a precision long-range target cartridge, has proven capable of closing the long-standing "dead zone" between the 7,62 infantry cartridge and the large-caliber .50, giving rise to a whole new class...

Various means are used to protect Strategic Missile Forces positions. One of these is the Dym-2 stationary firing system, designed for long-term deployment and capable of firing on intruders.

Faced with the gap between the too-weak 5,56 and the too-heavy 7,62 in the Afghan mountains, the US decided to close the gap not with a new machine gun, but with a new cartridge—and now the main question is not ballistics, but...

A.S. Pushkin wasn't the only one to mention Le Page's fateful guns in his poems. M.Yu. Lermontov also didn't forget to mention them in his drama "Masquerade." So, it was precisely this weapon that was used by our nobles...

So who exactly is this Lepage, and what exactly is he famous for? It's him we'll be talking about today.

This article is about the Japanese 50mm Type 10 and Type 89 grenade launchers.

In the sixty years since the belt-fed RPD was replaced by the magazine-fed RPK, both production technologies and the requirements for squad fire in combat have changed, so today the Kalashnikov Concern is once again...

Why did the army abandon the 7,62 caliber, what is an "off-center bullet," and who's really doing the tumbling?

Where did the AK come from, who copied what, and why it became a symbol? Let's take a non-judgmental look at the origins of the AK.

The Kalashnikov Concern unveiled its new rifle, designed to effectively combat low-flying, small-sized drones—or, in other words, FPV drones. And with this new product, things are very... strange. What is this and...

Why was a third type of ammunition created between the rifle and the submachine gun, and what came of it?

How World War I forced every stormtrooper to be given the firepower of a machine gun crew...

From the MG34 to the MG42 and beyond – how the Einheitsmaschinengewehr survived the Third Reich and defined the machine gun of the second half of the 20th century...

From Madsen and Chauchat to the BAR and DP-27 – fifteen years of engineering that changed infantry combat...

Sector, crossfire, barrage: how four years of war transformed an engineering scheme into a new tactic...