A one-of-a-kind serial pistol with a wide variety of calibers and types of interchangeable barrels. History of the creation of standard and non-standard cartridges for Auto Mag and their overview ...

The Luger pistol at the beginning of the twentieth century became perhaps the most widespread pistol in Europe. His history in the USA was also very interesting ... ...

Although the main goal of DWM was originally to obtain a German military contract for the supply of Luger pistols, in reality this only happened after this pistol was ...

12,7 mm sniper rifles are mainly designed to combat unarmored and lightly armored vehicles. They can be very effective when shooting at planes and helicopters, ...

Georg Luger entered the world of weapons thanks to his joint work with Ferdinand von Mannlicher, and by the time of his transfer to Loewe's company in 1891, he had been developing rifle ...

It is incredibly difficult to create an effective firearm design. And very often it happens that what seems simple - and therefore reliable, does not work well. And vice versa! Exactly...

Sometimes the flight of human thought is so impetuous that it overtakes its time by whole decades, and that's exactly what happened with the bullpup system ...

It often happens that something new - a certain technical novelty - appears immediately in a fairly perfect form. But more often the path to perfection is very long and difficult! Such is, for example, and ...

What kind of pistols did Henri Pieper make and did he do at all? Or was he just fulfilling orders for the production of someone else's weapons? It turns out that he did a lot of things. And that's just about his pistols today we ...

Envy is one of the most important qualities of the human soul, and it will not be an exaggeration to say that it is the most powerful engine of progress. “He has it, but I don’t! Well, so it will be with me, and even better! " So...

What were the automatic revolvers, and how did their automation work ...

If there are weapons in the world that almost everyone has heard of, then the Browning M2 heavy machine gun definitely belongs to such samples. In the American army, this model is ...

The US Navy wants a new combat laser. The new C-UAS HELWS program provides for the creation of a small-sized system with high performance, capable of combating UAVs ....

In the history of edged weapons, the executioner's sword or "sword of justice" occupies a special place. This sword cannot be included in Oakeshott's typology, but, nevertheless, it exists, and at one time it was quite ...

The state tests of the first version of the microwave sniper rifle have been completed. She confirmed the declared characteristics and can now be put into service ...

Remotely controlled combat modules are usually used to equip armored vehicles. However, Israel has found a new way to use them. Such products can be a convenient and effective means for ...

Can military weapons be environmentally friendly? ...

We are all used to the fact that a Mauser is a pistol with a long barrel and a magazine in front of the trigger guard. And yes, the C96 is a truly iconic pistol. But the Mauser firm also produced others ...

The revolver was designed by Paul Mauser and had the factory designation Construktion 1878 (C78) and was his first and last revolver model produced by this company. It was designed as ...

Once again about the problems of civilian weapons ...

The Kedr-Para submachine gun has attracted the interest of the Russian power structures and is being tested. The prospects and fate of this development will be determined next year after all the necessary ...

Probably the only example when large consignments of foreign small arms came to us in the USSR in peacetime is the period of the 20s, when they were purchased for the needs of the OGPU-NKVD ...

A knife is needed always and everywhere. In the kitchen - to cut food, in the war - to cut your opponents. A utility knife, which can also be used as a bayonet, turned out to be very convenient for this purpose ...

At the international forum Army-2021, the Kalashnikov group of companies presented a version of a submachine gun for pilots. The novelty of the Izhevsk gunsmiths will be included in the wearable emergency stock of military pilots ...