The US Army continues to work on the promising FWS-CS optical-electronic sight. The product has been brought to military trials and will enter service in the foreseeable future, improving the accuracy of machine guns and ...

Around the XIV century, knights, in addition to ordinary knightly swords, began to use the so-called "swords of war" or "long swords", "battle swords" - in different countries they were called in their own way. And the French ...

"Wearer of a blade, like a wave, must be put to death without trial or investigation." ...

It is always very difficult to make the right choice. But it also happens that two people make the right choice at once. The designer creates the “correct model”, and the businessman makes his “correct choice” in its favor ... ...

10 years ago NPO Izhmash began developing a promising assault rifle, which later became known as the AK-12. To date, it has been adopted and used by the troops ...

German 30-mm anti-aircraft guns had a fairly high performance, but they appeared too late. 37-mm anti-aircraft guns, available in the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe, were released in more than ...

Very sophisticated and effective German-made 20-mm anti-aircraft guns were used in the armed forces of a number of states. In the post-war period, they became widespread and ...

Ukraine again tried to remake the Kalashnikov assault rifle. The next result of this activity was a "multi-caliber platform" called "KalashNash" ....

Who said that competition and the desire to stay ahead of competitors in the market are not the engine of scientific and technological progress? Of course, there are, and the competition between Colt and Winchester is best for that ...

200 years since the birth of perhaps the most outstanding person in the world of firearms Benjamin Tyler Henry. It was he who invented the famous rifle of the same name, which became the first reliable ...

The concept of a pistol with a free breechblock, a spring-pneumatic bolt brake and an ejector entering the barrel chamber, designed for aimed shooting at 50 meters with 9x19 + P + cartridges and ...

You always need to keep up with the times. And businessmen also regularly conduct marketing research of the market. It doesn't matter if it's handbags or shotguns for hunters and sportsmen ....

The weapon of the Zaporozhye Cossacks, depicted in the painting of our great artist I.E. Repin "The Zaporozhian Cossacks" ...

Sometimes a person who is simply carried away with something, without knowing it, changes the whole course of history. Alexander Forsyth was lucky in this regard like no one else! ...

It has always been and always will be that, along with famous inventors, dozens, if not hundreds, of those who are not inferior to them, but ... just less successful ones, who are “just unlucky”, lurk in their shadows ...

The Second World War demanded massive and simple solutions, and this was true for small arms. In the United States, the M3 submachine gun certainly belonged to the “cheap and cheerful” category ...

The self-loading pistol MPL "Lynx" has successfully passed state tests and can now be adopted by the Russian Guard. Serial production of such weapons is planned to begin this year ...

John Moses Browning, while working for Winchester, was tasked with creating a rifle for a powerful rifle cartridge. From the very beginning, the new rifle was created for more powerful cartridges - like ...

Everyone knows that the great Russian poet Pushkin died in a duel. But how many of them did he have, and what weapon did he use to maintain his noble honor? ...

It is generally accepted that all rifles equipped with a bolt controlled by a lever are "hard drives". However, this opinion is erroneous. Moreover, the whole history of the Winchester company after 1876 is ...

There are designs that were perfect initially, but most often it happens that perfection comes to them over time and with a proper integrated approach. And the best example of such a design in the area ...

In the summer of 2020, state tests of the Kalashnikov submachine gun (PPK-20) were completed. Deliveries of a new model of firearms, similar in appearance to the legendary AK assault rifles, should begin ...

It is possible to create a successful carbine chambered for a revolver cartridge, however, it is much more difficult to create a gun similar to it chambered for 12 or even 10 caliber. But John Moses Browning quite successfully coped with ...

There are examples of small arms that make the enemy respect their appearance alone. However, some are known that are small in appearance, but from this they are no less deadly. And the pistol ...