In 1963, the SVD rifle was adopted by the Soviet Army. This product still remains in parts and does not plan to retire. Moreover, its development continues ...

The Austrian company Steyr does not offer pistols, but, in fact, one pistol in various versions in terms of dimensions and ammunition ...

The Maxima Gun Company began producing machine guns and widely advertising them at the end of the 19th century. They did not spare money for advertising ...

The shooting model of the legendary rifle and its prospects in the civilian market ...

American expert Charlie Gao prepared an analytical compilation entitled “The five worst Russian pistols on the planet” ...

Not a single rifle in the world can be compared in popularity with a Mauser, but in terms of accuracy with a Charles Ross rifle. But there were interesting developments and based on them ...

This weapon is not positioned as a combat, but as a "veterinary" pistol. But the gun is powered by a full-fledged patron 9х19, and not with tranquilizer darts. Swiss veterinarians can be envied! ...

Submachine gun Thompson. Tommy-gan will celebrate its centenary in a new kit ...

Explosives, more precisely, the most important raw materials for its manufacture, can be obtained from the shit. We are talking about trotyl, one of the main types of military explosives ...

Thanks to advances in the miniaturization of semiconductor elements and the improvement of semi-automatic guidance systems, it was possible to create compact anti-tank guided missiles ...

In the late thirties, Argentina created several new submachine guns for use in the army and police. C-4 is one of the successful projects of HAFDASA ...

Maxim began experiments with self-loading firearms with a patent on the use of recoil force in a Winchester rifle, in which automatic reloading was carried out by installing ...

During the battles of World War II, the American infantry fought enemy armored vehicles with rocket launchers and cumulative rifle grenades ...

Fighting smooth-bore gun MAG-7. "Civilian" African exotic. Operating experience ...

During the war, a number of compounds were tested that can be used as explosives. Among them was nitriourea ...

In the early thirties, Argentina developed the first own project of a submachine gun. Soon there was a new project of this kind called HAFDASA C-2 ...

About the Maxim machine gun did not write except that lazy. But when you collect material for several years, a lot of things accumulate in it that previously escaped the attention of the authors ...

At the beginning of the last century in Argentina appeared its own arms industry. From the pistols-machine guns produced by her, Lehnar became the first ...

Before the beginning of World War II, there were no specialized anti-tank weapons in the American army. Fighting enemy tanks was assigned to field artillery, which was mostly outdated ...

The concept of a single machine gun originated at the end of the First World War. The course of the fighting showed that it is fully justified to use the same design with minimal changes ...

The news that the Polish army adopted the new GROT machine gun went unnoticed. This weapon fully complies with the smallest NATO standards ...

Weapons designed to hit a target must be safe for the shooter. But designers are not always able to provide adequate security! ...

What man destroys his own kind? The record holder is our AK-47, but it's not about records. The point is efficiency and value for money. Speech about small-caliber mortars ...

Pistol Walther P.38 is one of those pistols that have become part of history and are recognizable even by those people who are not interested in firearms ...