During World War II, the United States accumulated large quantities of various military assets. Part of it was proposed to send for long-term storage. For small arms Springfield arsenal ...

The Uziel Galya submachine gun overtook many of the samples, but much of what he did was done before him, and much was already in the drawings or was tested ...

In 1905, the young Russian gunsmith Sergey Prilutsky presented his own development: a self-loading pistol, which can be called the first Russian model of small arms of this type ...

Successful examples of compact rapid-fire weapons include the MP9 submachine gun produced by the Swiss arms company Brugger & Thomet...

The main trends in the work of the designers were the increase in reliability (the Swedes have achieved a lot), compactness, dirt and dust resistance (Uzi goes to 1), strength (French beats everyone ...

New technical solutions (rolling shutter, placing the store in the handle, folding butt) untied the hands of designers, and they created many wonderful samples of submachine guns ...

In the USSR, these were the submachine guns of Shuklin, Rukavishnikov and Pushkin, which were created during the years of the Great Patriotic War ...

At the final stages of the Second World War, the Royal Enfield Small Arms Plant began work on a project that received the code name "Military carbine, ...

Army gun in the United States of America. Requirements for a new US Army pistol, contenders for victory, program winner ...