The beginning of the story of a mortar as one of the most effective weapons in our time ...

Revolvers with silent firing. One of the first low-noise revolvers was American AAI QSPR ...

Domestic machine ASH-12 will be offered on the foreign market. Let's take a look at this weapon, evaluate its positive and negative sides ...

During the exhibition IWA 2018 in the city of Nuremberg, the SR-17 pistol was demonstrated by the Czech arms company STRIKER sro ...

Overview of modern, "fresh" ammunition for small arms ...

In the armor-piercing bullets of small arms, an increasingly used core is a composite tungsten carbide alloy with cobalt type BK8 with a grain size less than 1 μm ...

Bullet made of aluminum. Beautiful idea. A policeman or a guardsman with a pistol who calmly uses it even in the presence of civilians around ...

Who will win in the confrontation of small-caliber guns and large-caliber machine guns? What is the difference comparable, in principle, "trunks"? And where did the discrepancy in the perception of weapons come from? ...

In order to increase the anti-tank capabilities of the infantry in 1967, the specialists of TsKIB SOO and SSBB Basalt began developing individual anti-tank weapons. In 1972, the adoption on ...

Not about any weapon can say so. Yes, with the addition of "legendary." The heavy machine gun of SV Vladimirov (KPV) is precisely the legendary ...

We approached another class of Ukrainian weapons, namely sniper rifles. These developments are the most interesting, since each sample is different from the other ...

The modernization of the Kalashnikov assault rifle was an initiative of Colonel Anatoly Anatolyev, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Sheyko and Major Andrei Zharkov ...

In the first post-war decade, the 57-mm ZIS-2, 85-mm D-44 and 100-mm BS-3 X-guns were in service with the anti-tank divisions of the land forces ...

The transfer to friendly formations of complex and expensive weapons does not make sense. To solve this problem, the TRW Low Maintenance Rifle rifle was developed in the USA ...

Submachine guns, which were developed in Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR, cannot boast of “exotic” solutions in designs, however, they are also interesting ...

One of the agreements on the licensed release of small arms Egypt has signed with Italy. The Italian-made finished pistol became the basis for the Heluan product ...

Heavy machine gun and its place in the modern army ...

In the course of the conversation about the novelties of small arms in our army (AK-12, AK-15, A-545 and A-762), the subject of a machine gun surfaced. In service of our ground troops are three machine guns ...

The theme of liquid throwing mixtures. The list of substances and their mixtures, suitable as a liquid propellant, is quite large ...

After the end of World War II, the Soviet infantry arsenal had anti-tank 14,5-mm guns and hand-held cumulative RPG-43 and RPG-6 grenades that did not meet modern realities ...

AK-12 and AK-15 have been tested and adopted by the Ministry of Defense. The Ministry of Defense has adopted the Degtyarev plant automatic weapons: А-545 and А-762. Not fatty? ...

After the appearance of tanks on the battlefield, artillery became the main means of fighting them: medium-sized field guns, and then specialized anti-tank artillery systems ...

On the upcoming rehabilitation of the 7,62-mm patron in the Russian army ...

Consider the pistols of Ukraine: "Khortytsya" and "Viy" ...