Gaza is still fighting, but seems unable to break out of a tactical stalemate where both sides cannot win. But the Hamasites have a chance...

The US Army is purchasing a new batch of SMASH series "smart sights". The new model will be used as part of the Transformation In Contact research program....

The Gauss gun, made by Chinese designers, is not as harmless a toy as it may seem. A small modification makes it deadly...

The history of the emergence, consideration, adoption of the Sturmgewehr 44 and its legacy....

Today, the AR-15 has become not so much a machine gun as a weapon platform, a kind of trend, in which today you can see hundreds, if not thousands of its most diverse examples and...

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The North Korean Type 73 machine gun, adopted by the Korean People's Army in 1973, is long outdated and has been replaced by the Type 82, although it still continues to see use in armed conflicts in...

As a result, AR-15 style rifles from a wide variety of manufacturers are now available in a wide range of configurations and calibers. These configurations range from standard full-size rifles...

Representatives of the Kalashnikov Concern report that the first large batch of serial RPL-20 machine guns may be delivered to the troops this year. This is, in fact, a non-trivial event. Let's try...

The new main battle rifle of the US Army is still not disappearing from the information field. It is not surprising, since its arrival marks the beginning of the sunset of the era of the great creation of Eugene Stoner. But the news is often not about what is on...

The history of the AR-15 began in the Armalit design bureau, a subsidiary of such aviation giants as Firechild and Lockheed...

An attempt to systematize information about one of the most interesting models of a 50 mm mortar, which had an original range setting system. As combat operations showed, this system worked...

The Chinese not only imported Mausers, but also established their own production...

The US Army is currently in the midst of the biggest changes to its small arms system since the 60s. Not just new weapons are being adopted, but entire small arms systems...

The first company to start producing unauthorized copies of the Mauser pistol in Spain was not Astra, but the Beistegui Brothers. They started doing this in 1927, and their bad example, a...

There are all sorts of copies in the world. They copy documents, paintings, and precious metal items. Weapons are also copied, both under a production license and in the most pirated way. Today we...

The machine gun first made its appearance on the battlefields of the American Civil War. However, the "grape shot" guns, powered by the rotation of a hand drive, could not yet be called real machine guns. But soon there appeared...

A unique and truly revolutionary weapon that has been making its way into the armies of various countries for almost 30 years. What it was like and why it was never able to...

Atomic bullets were already developed in the Soviet era! And what's more, they were even tested! These were 14,3 mm and 12,7 mm caliber bullets, that is, such heavy machine guns as the DShK and KPV. But our engineers managed to...

In the late nineties, the Crossfire Mk I combination shotgun entered the American market. This product attracted attention, but did not show any particular commercial success and passed into history....

Italian company Beretta Defense Technologies has unveiled the Benelli M4 AI Drone Guardian shotgun. This is a unique weapon designed to combat unmanned aerial vehicles....

Not all bold and interesting ideas in the field of firearms make sense and are worth implementing. A good example of this is the project of a shooting helmet by the American inventor A.B....

In 1938, the U.S. military decided that a carbine firing a medium-power round would be more useful than a standard .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol or revolver. This was probably...

The infantry has long been overdue for weapons that are more powerful and have a longer range than hand grenades and RPGs...