Two new rifles that appeared on the American arms market literally on New Year's Eve. When will they appear in our gun shops, because these are weapons for hunters? Who knows...
Not long ago, a photo of a Ukrainian special forces soldier appeared on the Internet, presumably taken in the SVO zone. The photo is notable for the fact that the Ukrainian is armed with a carbine with an underbarrel shotgun...
In 2010, a new assault rifle called the "IMBEL" IA2 was introduced in Brazil. It was designed to replace the Belgian FAL automatic rifles in service....
At present, a new "weight category" of machine guns is emerging. They should occupy an intermediate position between single-purpose and large-caliber machine guns....
At the very time when the Kalashnikov confidently strode across the planet, somewhere inferior to it, and somewhere overtaking it, the FAL FN rifle, produced by the Belgian arms company, marched just as confidently...
The PLA Marine Corps is now equipped with Chinese-made automatic grenade launchers and has almost completely abandoned Soviet-style anti-tank weapons...
The Kalashnikov assault rifle, despite competition from the American M16 and the Belgian FAL, became a true symbol of world weapons power. Thanks to mass deliveries and licenses, it spread throughout the...
Not long ago, a concept of a new grenade launcher system for the US Army was demonstrated. What kind of new weapon is this and why many people think it is a waste of money, in our article....
In the late 1980s, the US Army took on another promising project to modernize the entire army small arms system and create a promising small arms and grenade launcher system...
There are many examples in the world of firearms where one successful development gives rise to a series of imitations and improvements. One of the most striking examples is the history of Remington weapons,...
Following the end of the American Civil War, the Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company found itself at a crossroads. The era of the percussion revolver was coming to an end, and the war had proven that the new...
The self-loading tubular magazine firearm, patented in 1857 by Edward Lindner, is a complex mechanism that automatically feeds paper cartridges into a rotating drum made of...
More than half a century ago, our army adopted the VOG-17 fragmentation grenade launcher round. Initially, it was created for use with automatic grenade launchers, but later on,...