Last year, the American company Arcflash Labs began accepting orders for a hand-held Gauss rifle. Weapons from fantasy games and movies have proven that they are no longer toys...

In 1877, Webley began manufacturing a new Webley Pryse revolver in .476 caliber, so named because it used the patents of a young Birmingham inventor...

In 1985, John Stemple from Ohio opened his own small arms business: he began to rivet primitive submachine guns in his workshop, like two peas in a pod similar to the Smith and ...

Special weapons for special operations forces...

The other day, Rosoboronexport recalled an interesting example of small arms - the ShAK-12 assault rifle system. It has a specific appearance and special fighting qualities....

Today, the actions of the police and special forces in urban areas have led to a revival of interest in weapons "for shooting around the corner." It’s not for you to fight in an open field, here corners meet at every step and ...

Gunsmith William Tranter was born in 1816 in Oldbury, Birmingham. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to the arms company Hollis Brothers and Co., and after 9 years he left it and bought the company ...

The wars in the North American colonies, as well as the Franco-British war, showed the British military that they could not do without rifled weapons. So the British government in 1798...

In the world of firearms, many designs are constantly appearing and disappearing; and only some of them remain, while others disappear forever and remain only in private collections ...

Among the participants of the Polish resistance movement there were real nuggets. One of them, the peasant Henrik Stronpoch, designed his own submachine gun, which received an unofficial ...

Combat, information and auxiliary contours of promising small arms ...

Unclear prospects for the NGSW program - it seems that the winner has been decided, and the revolution in small arms is being postponed ...

Morgenstern, who gained fame among citizens, even as far as possible from modern Russian rap music, was known long before Bastrykin's attention. And it's not about the musician...

Almost all military weapons, including pistols, are nothing more than a compromise cleverly found by its creator between its quality and price. Swiss pistols from SIG - recognized as one of the ...

When the word "revolver" is heard, most of those who hear it recall either a revolver or a Colt. Moreover, if you ask "who invented the revolver", then in 80% of cases the answer will be the same - "Colt". And what is on ...

Not so long ago, the British newspaper "Daily Mail" reported that British special forces acquired 150 Gepard GM6 Lynx rifles capable of shooting down planes, helicopters and armored vehicles with one shot ...

We will begin to get acquainted with Star pistols from 1908, although this pistol itself appeared at the end of 1907. His barrel was motionless, the casing-bolt had ribbed washers for the fingers: that's why oh ...

There are many examples of how careless handling of a weapon harms, first of all, the one who uses it. And many arms companies have been working on ...

At the end of 1943, Nazi Germany began to use the latest Panzerfaust grenade launchers at the front. They were supposed to become a massive and effective anti-tank weapon, but real ...

Robinson Armament Co. Is an American manufacturer of firearms. In 2009, the company's staff consisted of only 15 people, and nevertheless, it produces military-grade rifles, including ...

It happens so, but before it happened all the time that, while designing a pistol or a rifle, its creator created, first of all, a cartridge, and only then made this or that weapon for it ...

Bullpup layout in small arms of the past, present and future ...

Review of patents and description of additional fuses for police parabellum. The history of their appearance. Fuse design performance analysis ...

Carbon fiber is carbon fiber, a material made up of fine filaments that are 5 to 10 microns in diameter and formed by carbon atoms. Carbon fibers have a low specific gravity, ...