It often happens that a good weapon created in one country ends up in another and it becomes even better there. Here is an example with the Suomi submachine gun, a vivid confirmation of this ....

During the massive shelling of Afghan government facilities and bases of a limited contingent, the dushmans first launched rockets, after which, under the guise, they struck with heavy ...

Today we will consider not one revolver, but several at once. But what unites them is that they all fold out for loading ....

The cumulative shells of the recoilless guns could not penetrate the frontal armor of Soviet tanks, but the side armor was vulnerable to them. An even greater threat of “no recoil” was for the protected ...

The Mujahideen, armed with hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers, often demonstrated high skill in firing them, showing how effective RPGs can be in close combat...

At the end of July 2021, the American company Arcflash Labs demonstrated its development of the GR-1 electromagnetic rifle, which represents the most powerful Gauss rifle available for the mass market.

Although the Starr revolvers did not have much success in the American revolver market, the Starr DA revolvers, like their later Starr SA versions, undoubtedly played an important role in armament ...

The best machine guns at the disposal of the Afghan Mujahideen were the Soviet-made PK and PKM, as well as the Chinese Type 80 ...

RPG-76 Komar rocket-propelled grenades received from Poland were seen in Ukraine. How useful such military assistance will be is a big question....

In 1973, American Wilde J. Moore conducted a marketing study and determined that there was an unoccupied niche for large-caliber pistols. Revolvers chambered for the Magnum type, for example. "Colt...

Several prototypes of a pistol that Hugh Gabbet-Fairfax designed under the general name "Mars" in 1903 were not in vain. People just saw - "how not to." But "how to" managed ...

Since the second half of the 1980s, Chinese clones of the Kalashnikov assault rifle have become the main individual small arms of the Afghan rebels ...

Foreign countries have handed over to Ukraine a large number of Panzerfaust 3 rocket-propelled grenade launchers. To date, such weapons have begun to enter the front line....

The model of the pistol, called "Mars" in honor of the Roman god of war, chambered for a long .45 cartridge at the time of its appearance turned out to be the most powerful pistol in the whole wide world! It's already in our...

This weapon is designed to deal with armored vehicles or various buildings, but its real potential is very limited....

North Korean battle painting and sculpture is something unimaginable. Paintings and skillfully drawn and cast metal sculptures, full of dynamism and expression, and just as accurately shown in...

The most popular repeating rifles among the Afghan rebels were the British Lee-Enfield No. 1 Mk III and No. 4 Mk I, known among Soviet soldiers as "Bur"...

During the years of the Afghan war, pistols and revolvers were most often used as an additional personal weapon of field commanders. Drivers of vehicles, crews were armed with submachine guns ...

The first Belgian Vigneron submachine gun. The history of its creation, a detailed description of the design, an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages [center]...

Ways to increase the effectiveness of fighters of ground units of the RF Armed Forces...

The role of weapons in the history of mankind. The first Belgian Vigneron submachine gun and its role in the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the countries of the African continent...

During the Great Patriotic War, the USSR studied the possibility of creating a mechanical grenade launcher. It was one of the attempts to create weapons using the principle of centrifugal forces ...

Last year, the American company Arcflash Labs began accepting orders for a hand-held Gauss rifle. Weapons from fantasy games and movies have proven that they are no longer toys...

In 1877, Webley began manufacturing a new Webley Pryse revolver in .476 caliber, so named because it used the patents of a young Birmingham inventor...