Who served in the army, he knows how difficult it is to shoot a man - left-handed with an AK-74 submachine gun or RPG-7B grenade launcher. A similar situation arises with the SVD sniper rifle, which stood on ...

Like any other weapon, the PM also underwent various modifications and upgrades. At the end of the last century, designers created an upgrade of the PM, which went into series and is used on ...

Sig Sauer, a well-known manufacturer of weapons and accessories, introduced a platform for the quick and easy transformation of a pistol into a carbine. Adaptive Carbine Platform (ACP) ...

Studying the history of the creation of various weapons, including rifle ones, with bitterness you begin to understand how many brilliant ideas of inventors and designers have not been finalized, not brought to ...

MSS "Vul" was primarily intended for arming the personnel of the state security and military intelligence of the Soviet Union. Self-loading special pistol "Vul" unique ...

For a long time after the appearance of the M16 in service, it has been continuously improved. Some experts in military science, mainly Western, consider its leaders in the assault segment ...

After equipping the Armed Forces of the USSR in 1974 with the approved party leadership of the country and the High Command of the USSR Ministry of Defense 5,45-mm AK-74 machine gun, the next period of development of the rifle ...

Separate theoretical calculations of such a science as countering anti-sabotage and anti-terrorism activities, say that the higher the degree of organization of the above-mentioned criminal groups, the ...

The Tkachev AO-46 machine gun, an experimental copy of which was released in the 1969 year, is almost the only development that was not created at the request of the USSR Government, allied ...

The PP-90M1 submachine gun is the brainchild of the Tula gunsmiths, which was released in the early 90s of the XX century. The Instrument Design Bureau in Tula received this seemingly profitable order from the Ministry of Internal Affairs ...

After the Second World War, during which various types of armaments were adopted by the belligerents, a situation arose when there were samples of armament in existing armies that ...

The history of Soviet and Russian science and technology is replete with many striking examples where talented people, due to certain subjective or objective reasons, possess extraordinary knowledge, so ...

IDF - Israeli armed forces acquired a batch of new weapons - software "Uzi Pro". After conducting comprehensive combat and technical tests, the IDF decided to adopt this ...

Airguns have been seriously spoken about over the past two decades, before that our acquaintance with him was limited to the ability to shoot in a small shooting dash from thin, loosened "air rigs" ....

Such a concept as "service weapon" was first heard in the wording of the RF Law "On Weapons". This is due primarily to the development of private security business. To this type of weapon ...

The barrel is the main part of small arms. The barrel of a rifled small arms is designed to communicate the rotational and translational movement of the bullet ...

Australia in terms of the development of military weapons does not often please us with novelties. So the development of a portable infantry complex for infantry personnel has creeped into funds ...

Manufacturer software "Specter M4" - Italian company "SITES". The main purpose - a melee weapon for the police forces or the armed forces. For the first time, Specter M4 was presented on ...

Recently, the press has been actively discussing the termination of purchases of AK-74 for the armed forces of the Russian Federation. There were even speculations about the possible withdrawal of the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifle with ...

At the end of the 80-s domestic weapons design bureaus began a kind of arms race. The main emphasis in this race was placed on submachine guns, although engineers did not forget about machine guns. TO...

The last two decades in the history of domestic small arms can rightfully be called the second era of submachine guns (the first was to the Great Patriotic War). And in this ...

At the beginning of this century, the command of the US Marine Corps preoccupied itself with increasing the mobility of fighters and units by rearming them. Up to now as a light machine gun ...

The automatic machine is developed by the Japanese firm Howa Machinery Company Ltd. The basis lay rifle AR-18. The rifle replaced the Type 64 rifle. Type 89 automatics is based on powder powder extraction ...

Over the past decades, Interior Ministry officials have been armed with Makarov pistols. But now, along with the disappearance of the term "militia", weapon legends are also disappearing. The cops take on ...