Rheinmetall for the first time introduced the promising SSW40 hand grenade launcher. As stated, this product combines high fire performance and ease of use....
In the XNUMXth century, dentists, photographers and merchants also took on the creation of firearms. But there were not so many titled among them. But there are no rules without exception, and the results...
Today our story is dedicated to the most, shall we say, "unusual" weapons in the world. And this, again, will be a Gasser model 1870 revolver, but it will be unusual because it is probably ...
A number of very interesting revolvers remained in the shadow of the “revolver”, which could well have been in service with our army and would have proven themselves no worse in it, but they didn’t hit and therefore ...
When the first capsule revolvers appeared in the arsenal of the military, the question of how to discharge them did not arise. Shot from it - that's discharged. Not so with cartridge revolvers. Empty shell...
It just so happened that in Russian colloquial speech the word "revolver" even began to be used as a synonym for the word revolver, and even a pistol. The reason is the wide distribution and popularity ...
Gunsmiths understood that it was very important to make sure that the shooter could replenish the ammunition of his weapon and not remain unarmed in the face of a new enemy. And the easiest way to solve this problem...
There was also a gunsmith-general in history who first designed a cannon, and then two rifles, first an ordinary bolt-action rifle, and the other an automatic one. And it wouldn't be so...
In 1899, the US War Department decided to hold a competition among the semi-automatic pistols that existed at that time and chose three of the most promising models for testing: the Mauser C96, ...
The Swedish company Saab is launching the production of a new HE 448 programmable shot for the Carl Gustaf grenade launcher. Sweden has already become the first buyer of such ammunition, and in the near future ...
V. G. Fedorov also took up an automatic rifle - he taught at that time at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School and presented his first model just at the end of the Russo-Japanese War already in ...
In 1903, John Browning had the idea to release a very small, small-caliber pistol for direct self-defense. The design of a pistol with a barrel connected to the frame with...
John Browning, continuing to consistently improve the basic model of the 1900 pistol, each time he created more and more perfect samples of this pistol, and they spread more and more ...
A lot of clamshell revolvers were invented. But from the point of view of mechanics, such a revolver device was not optimal. After all, it was necessary to recharge only the drum. That is, with...