Weapons of the Afghan dushmans. Hand, easel and uniform machine guns
The best machine guns at the disposal of the Afghan Mujahideen were the Soviet-made PK and PKM, as well as the Chinese Type 80 ...
Useless help: Polish rocket-propelled grenade RPG-76 Komar
RPG-76 Komar rocket-propelled grenades received from Poland were seen in Ukraine. How useful such military assistance will be is a big question....
Elephant hunting pistol
In 1973, American Wilde J. Moore conducted a marketing study and determined that there was an unoccupied niche for large-caliber pistols. Revolvers chambered for the Magnum type, for example. "Colt...
The heir to the pistol "Mars"
Several prototypes of a pistol that Hugh Gabbet-Fairfax designed under the general name "Mars" in 1903 were not in vain. People just saw - "how not to." But "how to" managed ...
Weapons of the Afghan dushmans. Self-loading rifles and assault rifles
Since the second half of the 1980s, Chinese clones of the Kalashnikov assault rifle have become the main individual small arms of the Afghan rebels ...
Panzerfaust 3 grenade launchers for Ukraine. Help with limited capacity
Foreign countries have handed over to Ukraine a large number of Panzerfaust 3 rocket-propelled grenade launchers. To date, such weapons have begun to enter the front line....
"Mars": "a gun for the god of war"
The model of the pistol, called "Mars" in honor of the Roman god of war, chambered for a long .45 cartridge at the time of its appearance turned out to be the most powerful pistol in the whole wide world! It's already in our...
Swedish-made AT4 rocket-propelled grenades began to arrive in Ukraine
This weapon is designed to deal with armored vehicles or various buildings, but its real potential is very limited....
North Korea. Paintings, statues and ... a universal machine gun
North Korean battle painting and sculpture is something unimaginable. Paintings and skillfully drawn and cast metal sculptures, full of dynamism and expression, and just as accurately shown in...
Weapons of the Afghan dushmans. Shotguns, single-shot and repeating rifles
The most popular repeating rifles among the Afghan rebels were the British Lee-Enfield No. 1 Mk III and No. 4 Mk I, known among Soviet soldiers as "Bur"...
Weapons of the Afghan dushmans. Revolvers, pistols and submachine guns
During the years of the Afghan war, pistols and revolvers were most often used as an additional personal weapon of field commanders. Drivers of vehicles, crews were armed with submachine guns ...
Vigneron submachine gun. First Belgian
The first Belgian Vigneron submachine gun. The history of its creation, a detailed description of the design, an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages [center]...
Russian special operation in Ukraine: small arms
Ways to increase the effectiveness of fighters of ground units of the RF Armed Forces...
Spear of Longinus from the Belgian Congo. Vigneron submachine gun
The role of weapons in the history of mankind. The first Belgian Vigneron submachine gun and its role in the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the countries of the African continent...
Mechanical grenade launcher MG-44
During the Great Patriotic War, the USSR studied the possibility of creating a mechanical grenade launcher. It was one of the attempts to create weapons using the principle of centrifugal forces ...
Handgun Gauss was recognized as a "serious weapon"
Last year, the American company Arcflash Labs began accepting orders for a hand-held Gauss rifle. Weapons from fantasy games and movies have proven that they are no longer toys...
Webley-Price revolver: there is no larger caliber
In 1877, Webley began manufacturing a new Webley Pryse revolver in .476 caliber, so named because it used the patents of a young Birmingham inventor...
John Stemple's collapsible weapons: everyone has their own hobby ...
In 1985, John Stemple from Ohio opened his own small arms business: he began to rivet primitive submachine guns in his workshop, like two peas in a pod similar to the Smith and ...
Ultimate assault rifle for special forces
Special weapons for special operations forces...
Assault automatic system ShAK-12. High potential and limited interest
The other day, Rosoboronexport recalled an interesting example of small arms - the ShAK-12 assault rifle system. It has a specific appearance and special fighting qualities....
"I'll shoot you around the corner!"
Today, the actions of the police and special forces in urban areas have led to a revival of interest in weapons "for shooting around the corner." It’s not for you to fight in an open field, here corners meet at every step and ...
William Tranter - man and revolver
Gunsmith William Tranter was born in 1816 in Oldbury, Birmingham. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to the arms company Hollis Brothers and Co., and after 9 years he left it and bought the company ...
Marksmanship Weapon: Baker's 1800 Infantry Rifle
The wars in the North American colonies, as well as the Franco-British war, showed the British military that they could not do without rifled weapons. So the British government in 1798...
"Springfield Hellion" - a semi-automatic version of the HS Produkt VHS-2 rifle for the US market
In the world of firearms, many designs are constantly appearing and disappearing; and only some of them remain, while others disappear forever and remain only in private collections ...