There are many examples in the world of firearms where one successful development gives rise to a series of imitations and improvements. One of the most striking examples is the history of Remington weapons,...

At all times, soldiers who had a rifle were also armed with bladed weapons....

Following the end of the American Civil War, the Colt Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company found itself at a crossroads. The era of the percussion revolver was coming to an end, and the war had proven that the new...

A very rare and original rifle of the famous dental surgeon and firearms innovator Dr. Edward Maynard....

The self-loading tubular magazine firearm, patented in 1857 by Edward Lindner, is a complex mechanism that automatically feeds paper cartridges into a rotating drum made of...

The first production models of rifles and machine guns using new types of ammunition, the M7 and M250, have appeared in US Army units....

The trench warfare that took place during World War I was some of the most chaotic and barbaric fighting that has taken place in modern times....

More than half a century ago, our army adopted the VOG-17 fragmentation grenade launcher round. Initially, it was created for use with automatic grenade launchers, but later on,...

A new version of the AK-12 assault rifle is entering service...

The path to a cartridge that would ignite from a cap at the rear of its base, and thus a magazine rifle, was neither easy nor simple. First came the so-called "rocket ball",...

The flow of Western aid to our opponents in the SVO zone sometimes resembles an attempt to plug a gap in an emergency with minimal costs. Not long ago, information appeared that the government...

The American army will spend colossal amounts of money on rearmament because the bullet is inferior to armor...

The 9K111 Fagot ATGM was adopted into service more than half a century ago. However, it retains fairly high characteristics and is capable of effectively solving combat missions....

While going through the weapons collection of the Penza Regional Museum of Local History, I came across a very interesting example: a drum-type cap gun with an octagonal barrel, and without a trigger...

Anthony Imperato trademarked the Henry name in 1996 and in 1997 released the first Henry H001 Classic Lever Action .22 rifle...

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George Kellgren, having moved to the USA from Sweden, founded his own company Kel-Tec CNC Industries INC, or simply KelTec, which became one of the examples of the realization of the so-called "American dream"...

The paratroopers and special forces are armed with hand-held anti-personnel and anti-tank grenade launchers, as well as portable and vehicle-mounted anti-tank missile systems...

The Russian army widely uses the Kornet ATGM. During the Special Operation, this weapon demonstrated its potential and confirmed its calculated tactical and technical characteristics....

It is often said that the Mondragon Model 1907 was the first self-loading rifle officially adopted by the army. In fact, the Madsen-Rasmussen Model 1896 was...

At the end of the 19th century, a whole cohort of designers from different countries began to create an automatic rifle...

75 years ago, the Vladimirov heavy machine gun was adopted for service. The team of engineers who created this weapon was awarded the Stalin Prize....

PPAs humanity accumulated scientific and technical knowledge, it became less and less. This is quite natural, because the process of accumulating knowledge is continuous. One of the steps...

In the early 1890s, Mexican officer Manuel Mondragon began to solve one of the most difficult technical problems of the time - creating a convenient, portable and reliable self-loading rifle....