The end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th century was indeed a very interesting time: progress not only did not stand still but ran forward with great strides. Even now, many developed a hundred years ago ...

It is fun enough to watch when watching not the most low-budget films, as the protagonist under the cover of night in complete silence destroys his enemies one by one with a revolver with ...

The theme of US small arms of the mid-nineteenth century aroused a keen interest of the VO readership and its proposals to continue. Well, why not, especially since last time one of the directions ...

Recent years for the company Remington have stood out not the best, there were even very hasty rumors of bankruptcy. Of course, such a gun giant will not become bankrupt, but deny that things are going ...

In the late forties, Egypt attended to rearming its army. Armed forces required weapons and equipment of new types, some of which were proposed to be produced independently. One of...

Among all the diversity of the Shot SHOW 2018 exhibition, you cannot ignore the new pistol from Smith & Wesson. The pistol stands out not only for its appearance, but also for the ammunition it contains...

It is estimated that the word knife in the Bible is found only five times, while the sword 194. What does this mean? Of course, the greater importance of the latter before the first. The knife is something household, economic, ...

When it comes to products made in China, most of the local inhabitants immediately begin to think about cheap, low-quality products, which are copies of other products ...

Looking through the photo and video reports from the SHOT Show 2018 exhibition, it is impossible not to notice that in 90% of cases a new compact pistol from the Sig Sauer company is considered “the highlight of the program” ...

Attempts to combine a firearm with a cold one began, probably, when the first primitive pistol had just appeared. Whether these attempts have been successful is hard to say since ...

Just look at the world map to see what a huge continent - South America. And not just huge, but very rich. The Amazon lowlands are the "lungs of the planet", but it is also ...

The Israelis declare a radical improvement in the characteristics of the main assault rifle of the Western bloc ...

As already mentioned in this series of articles, having quite decent carbines, the USA army did not have a decent modern rifle and had to be content with capsule rifles of the 1861 model of the year ...

At the SHOT Show 2018 show, the Kel-Tec weapons company demonstrated a self-loading rifle in a bullpup layout with a weapon claim for survival ...

The Latvian military are once again rearming - a contract worth 13 million euros has been concluded for the purchase of the army, the civilian militia Zemessardze and the State Border Guard ...

No one wants to die in battle, neither for a just cause, nor for an improper cause, and a man goes to this unless necessary. For this, in the past, people also hung themselves with all sorts of iron that protected ...

In the process of searching for interesting materials for new articles, sometimes you come across articles or videos about weapons that are fairly well known, but of little interest in their design ...

Sometimes it happens that a new original weapon design does not lead to the desired success, but the ideas proposed in it will soon find application in new designs. This was the case with the store ...

In the mid-fifties of the 19th century, Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson launched a series of small arms under the general name Volcanic ...

In the middle of the last century, French engineers created and brought to the series several promising submachine guns. Some samples were very successful, while others could not repeat ...

As it is known, in the USSR in 1971, after three years of considerable research and testing in terms of volume and voltage, various designs carried out at the Central Scientific Research ...

Immediately after the end of the US Civil War, the situation with small arms changed dramatically. The government stopped buying “everything that shoots” and normal market competition began ...

Until a certain time, the shooters had to put up with the volume of shots. Over time, the idea of ​​a device that reduces the noise of a shot. The first commercially successful device of this kind was ...

In the late forties, the French gunsmiths proposed several projects for promising submachine guns. One of the most interesting weapons was developed by Hotchkiss and received ...