In the mid-thirties, French gunsmiths developed several new submachine guns. Special requirements led to interesting features. One of the results of the unusual ...

Nowadays, small arms are not experiencing their best times. In the international market, there is a constant increase in competition with a shortage of truly fresh, new ideas ....

Even before the start of one of the largest exhibitions of weapons and equipment SHOT Show in Las Vegas, many manufacturers have announced their new items. The Brazilian company Taurus, which ...

Among the experimental works of the recent past, one of the most promising and promising projects was the development of cartridges with feathered sub-caliber bullets for small arms that are long enough ...

The modernization of weapons does not always lead to a serious change in its principles of action. Often, the update is only "cosmetic" character. Thus, the Hungarian company Keserű Művek began to develop ...

Another interesting novelty pleased the American division of IWI, which demonstrated its new development 17 of January this year - a self-loading rifle in a bullpup layout with ...

In the pre-war years and during the Great Patriotic War, the main machine guns of the Red Army were two machine guns - a manual DP-27 and a Maxim machine gun. Modifications of the tarryevsky "parking brake" ...

The issue of replacing individual weapons in the US military is quite acute since the 90s of the last century. According to the US military, assault rifles created on the platform ...

This story began almost three years ago, when the Russian shooter and manufacturer of high-precision long-range rifles Vlad Lobayev saw a video on YouTube, where vigorous old men from Texas with a rifle ...

Perhaps the most unusual cavalry carbine of the USA during the Civil War between the North and the South can be considered the so-called “Kentucky Carabiner”, designed by Louis Triplett and William ...

At the end of the last decade, the Hungarian arms company Keserű Művek introduced a self-defense carbine called Rubber Rain. Weapons of unusual appearance interested buyers, as well as ...

The story of the most powerful small arms would be difficult to imagine without a machine gun. Large-caliber 12,7-mm machine gun "Kord" of Russian production is today one of the most significant ...

Requirements for the improvement of small arms stood before designers always and at all times. Even in spite of the fact that the current level often seemed to have reached the limit of its development ...

Probably everybody — well, all of those who are interested in this, read that Milutin, the military minister of the Russian Empire, called the military minister “our unfortunate rifle drama” ...

Restrictions on civilian small arms often lead to the appearance of quite remarkable patterns. Thus, the Hungarian arms industry has created a whole line of traumatic ...

The Truevelo SR sniper rifle, which is manufactured in South Africa, can easily be counted among the most powerful models of small arms in the world ....

Since the US Armed Forces are paying more and more attention to improving the mass-capability ratio of their weapons systems, consider the current state of the large-caliber tested in battles ...

In the early twenties, France began developing its own submachine guns, but the real effects of this process appeared only at the end of the next decade. In 1938, the armament ...

All lovers of gun history are well aware of "Tommi-gan." Our today's story will be about this long-liver of the world of weapons with disassembly and comments by Andrei Bondar from the historical club ...

Until the early twenties of the last century, the French army showed no interest in machine pistols. However, soon the technical task appeared, according to which the first sample of this kind was created ...

The ASh-12 assault rifle is a modern Russian design. This weapon was adopted by the FSB special forces. The features of this machine, in addition to unusual for the domestic ...

Machine gun "Maxim" from childhood is familiar to anyone interested in military history. Who does not remember film shots or photos in which two fighters lying on a machine gun are firing? ...

The UMP (Universal Machinen Pistole) submachine gun produced by the famous German arms company Heckler & Koch might not have been included in the rating of the most powerful small arms, if not for ...

In the field of small arms, the term “modular design” usually indicates the possibility of the replacement of certain parts, additional equipment, etc. However, other options are possible ...