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, ...

A special modification of the Parabellum for the police, equipped with additional fuses. Types, design of additional fuses. Overview of patents and the history of the emergence of the police ...

Despite the effectiveness of the first fire-fighting guns, firing from them was extremely slow. Therefore, it is not surprising that they immediately tried to speed up the reloading of handguns. So...

The history of the creation of the first Finnish pistols ...

It is difficult to say that Herbert Werle had a "firm". He had a shop that sold hunting rifles, and the shop had a workshop in which he was engaged in "tuning" Georg's pistols ...

During the First World War, the belligerent countries actively experimented in the field of creating various weapons. One such experiment was a German hand-held disk grenade ...

Today our story will be about a pistol), which was designed by Joseph Joachim Reifgraber, who was born on August 16, 1856 in Austria ...

It has always been and will be that someone, having something done in front of their eyes, as well as skillful hands and head on their shoulders, wants to do the same, but better! Here is a pistol designed by Aimo Lahti L-35 ...

English archers have become the hallmark of medieval England. It is believed that it was thanks to the human-sized long bows that the British troops won victories in the Hundred Years War ...

The market demanded not only large and powerful pistols, but also very small, so to speak, ladies' pistols, that is, even smaller than the 1900 model and chambered for a weaker cartridge. And - if it is necessary, then it is necessary ...

The history of the very first Browning pistol began back in 1895. It was then that he offered the Colt company a pistol invented by him with automatic equipment operating by removing powder gases from the barrel ...

In 1903, the Walter family built a small factory on the Katzenbuckel in Zella Mehlis. The company became known as "Karl Walter Waffenfabrik" ....

The Izhevsk arms company "Tekhkrim" in the fall of 2021 presented its new product - the TK502 gun. Weapons attract a lot of attention, and this interest is understandable ...

Several foreign countries are armed with the Nashshab anti-tank rocket launcher. This product is an interesting example of military-technical cooperation between Russia and ...

Development of 12,7 mm rifles in Russia began later than in the United States. But, despite this, our gunsmiths managed to create a number of samples that are not inferior and often superior to foreign designs ...

The Russian company Lobaev Arms presented a promising DXL-5 Havoc sniper rifle. In fact, we are talking about a complex capable of using different cartridges and showing the highest combat ...

Submachine guns, which became widespread during the Second World War, have not lost their importance today. This weapon is widely used by special forces around the world ...

What revolvers were used by French officers and soldiers at the turn of the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries ...

There are people who are directly related to the Luger pistol today. For example - this is Evgeny Golubtsov, better known as "Lugerman", a man who is considered today one of the best gunsmiths ...

In the history of firearms, there are many interesting projects that differed from others either by their unusual technical solutions or by their extravagant appearance. And first on them ...

The M1901 self-loading semi-automatic pistol "Mannlicher" was one of the earliest designs of a self-loading pistol and, moreover, this pistol was one of the simplest ever created ...

Ersatz weapons are rarely successful, but this does not prevent us from pinning high hopes on it. A good example of this is the Ukrainian large-caliber rifle PG-14,5 "Nichny Khizhak" ....

The Luger pistol was delivered to Russia twice: in 1902 and 1907. Officially, these pistols were not adopted by the Russian Imperial Army, but the officers were allowed to use them ...

We are talking about a rather little-known pistol М1898, which would have looked quite modern even in the middle of the XNUMXth century ... ...