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 ...
Sniper Rifle Dragunov Large-caliber (SVDK)
Anti-terrorist and anti-partisan actions of power structures, as well as peacekeeping operations in which the use of heavy weapons is either impossible or forbidden, the army also promoted ...
Intelligent grenade launchers to appear in Afghanistan
After another year of testing and development, the US Army has finally decided to send its most high-tech weapons to Afghanistan. The first batch of "smart" XM-25 grenade launchers was supposed to ...
From Russia with blood ("Foreign Policy", USA)
CJ Chivers talks with Foreign Policy about the Kalashnikov, real world weapons of mass destruction. The Kalashnikov assault rifle, CJ Chivers writes in his book “The Gun” (The Gun) ...
Incompatible with life
The traumatic weapon used all over the world for self-defense turned into a murder weapon in Russia. Does Russia need a law allowing citizens to carry serious firearms? ...
SVU-A OTs-03AS sniper rifle
The SVU-A sniper rifle (shortened, automatic sniper rifle) is also designated as OTs-03AS (Designer LV Bondarev). Since 1993 g is in service with the special forces ...
Silent large-caliber sniper rifle "Exhaust"
In 2002, TsKIB SOO (KBP branch office) presented under the code “Exhaust” an 12,7-mm sniper complex. The development work on this topic was started in 1999. After completion in 2004, this complex ...
Submachine gun Heckler - Koch HK MP7A1 PDW (Germany)
Submachine gun Heckler - Koch HK MP7, developed at the end of 1990 by the German company Heckler and Koch, according to the classification adopted in the west, belongs to a new class of small arms -...
What should be a modern sniper (part of 1)
Colonel Jeff Cooper, idol and ideological mentor of Western combat shooters, called the rifle "the queen of small arms." Indeed, a rifle, especially equipped with an optical ...
What should be a modern sniper (part of 2)
As mentioned above, in addition to the characteristics of the "cartridge-weapon" complex, the magnitude of the dispersion of bullets is significantly influenced by shooting errors, among which the most significant ...
PM
The history of the creation of the PM pistol began long before its official "birth". It was necessary to find a fundamentally new solution in the development of a new type of pistol, which would become ...
At the forefront
German version of Personal Defense Weapon Heckler & Koch MP7E The Heckler & Koch company is reluctant to communicate with the press, since its main clients are the Bundeswehr and the armed forces of countries...
H&K G36
For half a century of the history of the Bundeswehr, its soldiers have already received the fourth “soldier's bride”. Prior to this, the German recruits' friends were the G98, FAL and G3 rifles. In 1995, the armament ...
7,62-mm curved (curved) machine gun
The work on the creation of a prototype curved machine gun with a curvature of the barrel 90 degrees was carried out by designers N. F. Makarov, who completed all the projects of the curvilinear node, and K. T. Kurenkov, ...
From AK-47 to AKM
The adoption of the AK-47, despite a number of shortcomings, was undoubtedly a great achievement of the national weapon science. The machine gun fell in love with the troops for the simplicity of the device, reliability and ...
Automatic or assault rifle?
Continuing to reveal the history of the creation of AKM, it is impossible not to make a small digression and tell about another brainchild of Mikhail Timofeevich - a carbine (on the current foreign classification ...
Barrett REC7
Automatic rifle Model REC7 latest development Barrett Firearms Company. This small American company has gained worldwide fame thanks to its large-caliber sniper ...
The army will have a new "Kalashnikov"
Recently, there have been many negative reviews about domestic small arms, equipment and personal protective equipment. Some even think that Kalash is outdated and we are behind ...
F2000 model
Taking a blank sheet of paper, FN specialists have created a weapon that claims to be the "rifle of the future." Model F2000 (army version) and its civilian counterpart FS2000 are ready ...
How Paul Mauser created his famous rifle
It all began in the second half of the XIX century. In 1865, Paul Mauser resigned from active military service in the Ludwigsburg arsenal, where he succeeded not only in ...
Kalashnikov assault rifle 200-series
It is known that the much anticipated new version of the Kalashnikov 200-series will be tested in the 2011 year. The basis for the 200 series is taken AK-74M. This news was reported by the director of the Izhmash plant Vladimir ...
Self-loading rifles
Attempts to create a weapon that would not require a separate time and effort to load, always been. In the Soviet army for a long time in service was SVT-40 - self-loading rifle system ...
Metal Storm creates an iron curtain of bullets
The system of grenade launchers and machine guns Metal Storm is a rifled barrel with an electronic fire control circuit that has no moving parts. Charging ignition - electropulse. Depending ...
MAGPULL MASADA / Bushmaster ACR
In November 2009 of the company Colt Defense expires with a contract with the US DoD (US Department of Defense) for the supply of M4 carbines to the army and the USMC (Marine Corps). To this date, many ...