They declare that this weapon is a real German "Schmeisser", and not the 38 / 40 submachine gun developed by Heinrich Folmer, which is often shown in films about the Great ...

In place of M16, which is not very suitable for urban combat conditions, a company from Israel, IMI TAAS (Israel Military Industries), in 90's, began developing weapons of a new generation, using ...

In 1982, a weapon designed for stellar expeditions was designed, and in 1986, it was put into service in the Space Forces. The fact of its existence for many years could not even be ...

The Red Army began the first tests of self-loading rifles back in the 1926 year, but until the mid-thirties, none of the tested samples met army requirements. Sergei...

The first sample of the TK pistol (Tula Korovin) chambered for 7,65mm Browning was developed by Sergei Aleksandrovich Korovin in 1923. However, primarily due to the complexity of the design and ...

The Vepr-12 smoothbore gun (carbine) is a relatively new development of the Molot plant (Vyatskiye Polyany) and was created as a direct competitor to the very popular ...

A few weeks before the invasion of Iraq in America, a serious skirmish broke out between the Chief of Staff of the US Army and his civilian boss (in America, the country's defense minister is a civilian). AT...

The Anti-Tank Grenade Launcher (RPG) enjoys a high reputation among the rebels for providing them with inexpensive anti-tank weapons that do not require a lot of training. The newest ...

The US military is choosing a new long-range sniper weapon. The Americans began to search for a replacement for rifles, who faithfully served GI for more than 60 years. It is not just about upgrading weapons, but about a sharp ...

Representatives of the Promtekhnologii group of companies reported on the preparation for the launch of a completely new rifled weapon, which possesses unique ...

Lightweight heavy machine gun LW50MG, developed by General Dynamics Corporation, is a development of the American program XM-307 ACSW / XM-312, recently testing financial ...

The question of which small arms are better, AK or М16, actually moved into the category of rhetorical. Of course, AK has become a cult automat: even despite its rather low accuracy with ...

Until recently, the development of individual small arms of a soldier went its own way, separate from the newest technologies. Electronics in the layout of assault rifles and assault rifles or not ...

For some time now, in the Solnechnogorsk training center, snipers are trained to work with the Steyr Mannliher rifle, which is then sent to the center graduate to the duty station. Sniper rifle...

The United States military was presented a project for the production of innovative weapons - 25-mm XM-25 grenade launcher. The project has recently been approved, according to preliminary estimates, its cost is 65,8 ...

In the course of Operation Enduring Freedom, which the United States has been conducting in Afghanistan for several years, the American military, mostly special forces, from time to time have to conduct active ...

At the end of the 20 of the last century, the command of the Red Army announced a competition for the creation of an automatic pistol. The new gun was supposed to be easy to use, according to the command ...

The US company Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Inc., which specializes in the production of long-range large-caliber weapons, made the announcement of its new rifle MRAD (Multi-Role Adaptive ...

The predecessor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle in service with the Soviet army was the Shpagin submachine gun (PPS). Created to replace the Degtyarev submachine gun, the PPSh in the first place was ...

Pistol Walther PP (Polizei Pistole), a police gun company Carl Walther Waffenfabrik, it is considered one of the best examples of German short-barreled weapons. Walther PP despite ...

The Azerbaijani IST 14.5 sniper rifle "Istiglal" (IST 14.5 Anti Material Rifle) will be included in the catalog of the world small arms. According to APA, technical indicators and other ...

The Parabellum is a legendary German pistol, about which many have heard, a weapon that rightly became a symbol of a German pistol from the first half of the twentieth century. "Parabellum" has a recognizable ...

In the middle of the 90 of the last century, the AEK-9 “Kashtan” submachine gun was developed under the cartridge 18x919 PM at the Kovrovsky Mechanical Plant. For a sample when creating a new weapon Kovrov ...

AEK-971 is a promising machine, a continuation of AEK with the exact same principle of operation, in fact AK-107 / 108 has become. But the recognition of the Soviet gunsmiths this machine has not acquired. In August 1981 of the year ...