It so happened that the general public, including foreign, first learned about the Kalashnikov only a few years after its creation and adoption. However, it is not ...

Izhevsk Mechanical Plant since its inception (in the 1942 year) and to date has been engaged in the production of combat and service pistols. The plant is the largest enterprise in Europe by ...

Weapon history is a continuous process of improving small arms, aimed at improving its combat effectiveness and developing in accordance with the global trends of tactics ...

The Dragunov PP-71 submachine gun was manufactured in the early 70s of the XNUMXth century as part of the Bouquet competition, which was commissioned by the security forces of the Soviet Union. Currently...

For obvious reasons, various weapons systems are fertile ground for the emergence of all sorts of rumors, conjectures, legends, and sometimes even outright malicious lies. Still would,...

The main purpose of the rifle MTs-116M - defeat various emerging, moving single targets, open or masked. It is used in all climatic conditions, temperature ...

Among the creators of domestic small arms Sergey Gavrilovich Simonov (1894-1986) is deservedly considered one of the patriarchs, His life was typical of talented nuggets who came to ...

The history of the Walther R.38 pistol began with the 9-mm Walther MP of the first model. This gun still doesn’t look through the P.38, it is very similar to the increased Walther PP. To secret work on ...

The world practice of designing small arms shows that for the invention of a system to be used as a “civilian” weapon, i.e. employees of specialized non-army ...

2012 marks a quarter of a century since the adoption of Soviet 9-mm silent complexes, known mainly for their ciphers, Vintorez and Val. They themselves have long ceased ...

It is unlikely that it will be possible to establish exactly who was the first to guess from an ambush with one precise strike to hit a target. Most likely, it was tens of thousands of years ago, and the weapon of the then "snipers" was a stone ax ...

Two-barreled shotgun and noiseless. One can hardly think of an even more incompatible "union" of weapon terms. But the engineers of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Precision Engineering (TSNI Tochmash) ...

Often, the staff of various intelligence services there is a need for firearms, which with tolerable characteristics would be compact and secretive. For the "liquidation specialists" gunsmiths ...

It can be called a coincidence, it is possible and in a different way, but from the beginning of the 90-s of the XX century, that is, from the moment the Russian state declared its declarative rights to independence,

This self-loading type rifle was developed by the well-known American company Kel-tec CNC Industries, it continues the successful development of commercial weapons of the already released light-weight rifle ...

The image of a Soviet officer was always drawn with a sort of patriotic bloom, there was always some pathos. In all the pictures of a patriotic sense, he raises fighters to the attack, and, moreover, if ...

2MW showed the advantages of automatic weapons and its ending was marked by the growth of the creation of various types of automatic weapons. In the middle of 45, the main armament of British infantry ...

The end of the 80 of the last century was very successful for the Klimovsky Central Research Institute Tochmash. At that time, two models of small arms were created and put into service - the VSS rifle and the Val automatic machine -...

When considering pistols for the title of the best in the world, the impact on the world weapons market, the revolutionary design and mass use were primarily taken into account. The review took ...

An analysis of regional and local conflicts that took place, including with the participation of NATO forces in some military companies, shows that at the preliminary stage, aviation inflicted mass bombings ...

At the very beginning of the 70 of the last century, Klimovsky TsNIITochMash received an order from the Ministry of Defense to create a pistol capable of firing without much noise. The basis of the new design was to ...

There was a new information about the combat tests of a new generation of weapons - XM25 grenade launcher. American soldiers who had a chance to try the new XM25, say that except ...

Snipers of the "new model" hoped to get samples of modern foreign rifles for full-fledged training. However, they were disappointed in the form of outdated Russian SVD ...

One of the exhibits of the exhibition of weapons Shot Show 2010, which deserves close scrutiny, is a gun made with the innovative technology from the company Kel-Tec, which received ...