AN-94 “Abakan” - the best automatic machine in Russia
Small arms at all times have been and remain the main destructive force. Not only the outcome of a particular ...
Arsenal for special forces
One of the main directions for the development and improvement of special intelligence remains to increase the combat readiness of formations and military units, equip them with reconnaissance equipment and ...
US Army Updates Automatic Weapons
According to ArmyTimes, in May 2011, the US Army will announce a tender for the development and supply of new assault rifles. In the future, they will be used by the military along with the upgraded M4A1. How...
Weapons for apt shooters
In Soviet Russia, after 1931, sniper weapons were developed mainly on the basis of self-loading rifles, sniper variants of rifles such as self-loading rifles were tested ...
German - gun buckle
This weapon was created in 30 years of the last century in Nazi Germany. Since the use of the buckle pistol was very limited, they were released quite a bit. All this business works ...
What machine gun did not even dream of a Russian soldier?
If you ask any soldier who served in the Soviet (Russian) army what a regular army weapon should be, he either does not understand the question, or he will describe the device of a Kalashnikov machine gun - a tough one ...
The best rifles of the twentieth century
The American Military Channel has compiled a rating of the best examples of small arms created in the twentieth century. Each model was evaluated by military experts for accuracy of fire, combat ...
Army without “Kalash” and SVD: pros and cons
Recently, more and more controversy has flared up around the statement by Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, who expressed complaints about Russian small arms, in particular, the legendary ...
Kalashnikov vs. M16
Two concepts After the end of the Second World War, two fundamentally different approaches to the question of how to arm infantry arose. The first of these involved the arming of troops with a machine gun and a self-loading ...
Legendary Comrade Mauser
Mauser C-96 (Mauser K-96) is a legendary weapon, a heavy, powerful pistol developed by the Mauser brothers. The gun was developed in 1893 by the Federle brothers, who worked on the armory ...
Ghost Weapon - Grad submachine gun
I would like to bring to your attention a very unusual sample with a rather curious history .. The preamble is as follows: The name of the product is "GRAD". Applied ammunition - 6x49. Shop - box, ...
Four-inch sniper detection device
A device for detecting snipers as small as four inches is developed in Britain. British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan received a revolutionary new device for testing, capable of ...
Compact machine 9А-91
At the end of 1980, while Klimovskiy designers worked on the CP-3 “Whirlwind” compact machine, Tula gunsmiths from the Instrument Engineering Design Bureau (KBP) began working on ...
Scrumaxx
Skramasaks-combat knife, with one-sided sharpening and, as a rule, asymmetrical shank. Skramasaks is a term covering a large number of knife varieties, from small table knives to ...
Smith & Wesson - American legend
The world-famous Smith & Wesson company was founded a century and a half ago, in 1852, by two American gunsmiths Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson in Norwich (state ...
Accuracy International L96 A1 / Arctic Warfare Sniper Rifle (UK)
At the start of 1980, the British Army announced a competition to replace the aging Enfield L42 sniper rifles. The main participants of the competition were English companies Parker-Hale with a rifle ...
Wild boar
In 2003, the Vepr (Vepr-Rus) machine gun was introduced by the Scientific and Technical Center of Precision Engineering of the National Space Agency of Ukraine. The machine was created as an upgrade ...
Large-caliber sniper rifle
Recently, large-caliber sniper rifles, loudly referred to as “the weapon of a sniper of the 21st century”, have become one of the most popular weapon themes. Journalists have become a fashion to serve even ...
Large-caliber sniper rifle OTs-44
A special-purpose large-caliber sniper rifle OC-44 was made in the bullpup layout according to the LV scheme. Bondarev on the basis of TsKIB SOO (branch of KBP). In the manufacture of the OTs-44 rifle was taken into account ...
Experimental sniper rifle TKB-0145K
At the end of the 1990-s, the designer of the Tula TsKIB SOO, A. B. Adov, developed an experimental self-loading sniper rifle TKB-0145K for the cartridge 6x49 mm. Sniper rifle TKB-0145K ...
Russian sniper weapons
The author of these lines has already described in detail about domestic sniper weapons in the book "Laws of Sniper War". Nevertheless, it makes sense to briefly dwell on the most interesting and ...
Self-loading Karabin Simonov (SCS)
Developed at the end of the Second World War, S. G. Simonov, the creator of the 7,62-mm automatic ABC self-loading rifle arr. 1936 and 14,5-mm self-loading anti-tank gun PTRS 1941 g ....
Dragunov sniper rifle (SVD)
In the fifties, in connection with the rearmament of our army, the designers were given the task of creating a self-loading sniper rifle. Eugene F. Dragunov also joined this work, ...
Submachine gun PP-19-01 "Vityaz"
The submachine gun PP-19-01 "Vityaz" is used to arm the patrol and guard services, traffic police and internal security. The submachine gun was developed by the weapons enterprise JSC Concern ...