Not every "Winchester", that is, a gun with a bracket at the bottom, is a "Winchester", even if these guns look like two drops of water, there was another gun with a lever reloading system popular in the USA, and even ...

It must have annoyed the army that the navy was now armed with bolt-action rifles while its soldiers were still running around with single-shot rifles...

Creation of an air-cooled machine gun arr. 1900 was a great achievement for both the Hotchkiss company and the French military, who were able to understand that, in addition to Maxim machine guns, they have the right ...

In 1875, James Paris Lee patented the main invention of his life - a detachable box magazine for a rifle. And already in 1878 he developed a truly revolutionary rifle with this ...

We have noted many times that as soon as some effective type of weapon appears, a lot of inventors immediately appear who try to either improve it or simply bypass the existing ones ...

In the early 1900s, Samuel McClean, a physician by training, abandoned his medical practice at age 40 and designed and manufactured a large 37mm automatic cannon that was mounted on a pedestal...

Everyone who decides to buy a gun and / or a traumatic pistol should first figure out what kind of weapon can be purchased and how to get all the necessary permits ...

The machine gun, which will be discussed today, was designed by Colonel of the American Army Isaac Newton Lewis in 1911, while he used the developments of Samuel McLean. But between the general...

In 1903, the French government, having made sure that one way or another, but the country's army already possesses a suitable machine gun of a rifle caliber, thought about how, in addition to ...

Captain Odkolek with his machine gun found himself in a situation that the inventor does not always have to face. That is, he completely unconsciously ended up exactly there and exactly when ...

Iran has developed and is producing the Dehlaviyeh anti-tank missile system. It is believed that it is a copy or a revised version of the Russian ATGM "Kornet" in the export version....

It so happened that the Austrian officer, Baron Adolf Odkolek von Augezd) became interested in the design of weapons and in 1889 received his first privilege for a machine gun driven by automatics from powder ...

Surely, many blacksmiths of the past wanted to make something unusual, special. There could also be original customers - “people who want the strange”, but weapons could also be strange. And the easiest...

Mother-of-pearl trimmed firearms - both guns and pistols, and pistols with mother-of-pearl-trimmed handles have not disappeared even today. Well, about how it was - a weapon with ...

During the current Special Operation, Kornet anti-tank missile systems are widely used. This weapon successfully hits a variety of targets across the entire range of operating ranges....

The adoption of microwaves into service: a step forward or a painting in one's own impotence ...

In all that great variety of revolvers that were produced after the advent of the Colt-Peterson, two directions are quite clearly visible: the production of copies of popular models, like ...

We somehow already talked about how knightly armor and weapons were decorated, examined in detail all the technologies used. But now the time is gone. Knightly tournaments have sunk into oblivion, and among ...

Further popularization of a completely new principle of pistol design - radial bolt guides (RNZ). The achieved advantages give grounds to talk about a fundamentally new concept...

The effectiveness of a machine gun on the battlefield is due to the significantly higher density of fire compared to a conventional machine gun. But in this advantage lies the weak point of a light machine gun - ammunition. The one who...

The first Soviet novel, in which a truly fantastic weapon operated, was ... well, of course, the famous "Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin" by Alexei Tolstoy ....

The Bundeswehr adopted the MG5 machine gun, which should replace the honored veteran MG3. Being a good weapon in principle, the MG5 does not have the quality that is primarily expected from ...

Both Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, with all their talent and visionary gift, largely remained people of their era, that is, the XNUMXth century. Meanwhile, already the beginning of the XNUMXth century gave mankind many...

After the First World War, engineer Rafael Mendoza and his company Productos Mendoza began work on their national light machine gun in 1928, and it continued until 1933. AND...