Back at the beginning of 2017, information appeared on the rearmament of the Ukrainian army. It is about replacing the Kalashnikov with a new WAC47, which is a version of the M4 ...

During the First World War, light artillery systems with a pneumatic method of throwing ammunition became widely spread ...

Over the past few years, a huge amount of accolades for the Bushmaster ACR machine has appeared ...

In the early fifties of the last century, Spanish engineers from the arsenal of La Coruña created a line of promising models of small arms. One of the new projects proposed construction ...

For those who are interested in handguns, and indeed weapons in general, is not a discovery that the most interesting, from a technical point of view, samples are very rarely mass-produced and ...

Since the end of the forties, Spanish gunsmiths have been working on the creation of new automatic weapons for existing and prospective intermediate cartridges. The result of these works are several ...

According to the experience of the battles of the Second World War, different countries began to develop promising small arms. One of the first post-war designs created in Spain was automatic ...

Despite the huge number of handguns, it is almost always possible to accurately determine which class this or that instance belongs to ...

Large-caliber machine gun "CORD" has already taken its place in the range of weapons of the Russian army and solves several different tasks in it. At the same time, the development of the machine gun continues ...

The divisions of the German Volkssturm needed in large quantities of various small arms. Especially for them, several new systems were developed, featuring maximum simplicity ...

Throughout the Second World War, the German army used the MG MGNNX and MG34 machine guns. Attempts have been made to create new weapons of this class, but they did not lead to the start ...

Experiments in the field of small arms often lead to the most original results. Thus, during the Second World War, the German gunsmith Augustus Koenders proposed an original design ...

In unison with the industry seeking to improve the lethality and accuracy of small arms systems, the armed forces begin to develop and implement optimized combat training modes in ...

One of the main requirements for a personal defense weapon concerns the reduction of dimensions. The size of the weapon is reduced in one way or another, including with the help of completely new layouts ....

Historians write that the idea of ​​forcing a bullet to fly along a curved trajectory occurred to the Russian military engineer Mayevsky in the 1868 year. However, they seriously took to shooting from the corner only to the beginning ...

In the framework of the past international military-technical forum "Army-2017" more than 400 military product samples were presented. On the territory of the Park "Patriot" worked and a separate ...

Regular readers of the TM magazine and “Machinery and Weapons (as well as“ Foreign Military Review ”) can confirm that in the past there have been an enviable regularity of predictions about ...

We have previously written about the products of the Italian arms company Victrix Armaments, in particular, about the family of high-precision tactical rifles. In 2017, this company was bought by this ...

2017 year will remain in the memory of three significant events, in which JSC “NPO“ High-precision Complexes ”took part. This is the International Naval Salon in St. Petersburg, MAKS and Army-2017. On...

Silent PB gun (index GRAU 6P9) was created in the Soviet Union specifically to arm army reconnaissance groups, as well as employees of the KGB of the USSR. The gun was adopted exactly ...

Until recently, the Slovak company Grand Power, led by Yaroslav Kurachin, was firmly associated by knowledgeable people with self-loading pistols and nothing else. But just a few years ...

September 11 is obviously a bad day for Americans. Today, Florida washes away, in 2001, aircraft skyscrapers rammed, and exactly 240 years ago, 11 September, 1777, the British army of General William ...

In recent years, the domestic defense industry has presented a number of promising models of small arms. So, last year the small-sized MA was shown for the first time. The development of this ...

By the end of World War II, the British military began to realize that the quick-wired STAN had exhausted its possibilities and the army needed more modern and effective weapons ....