The beginning of the “lever rifles” was as follows: in 1826 in Italy, Caesar Rosaglio manufactured and patented a revolver with a lever mechanism for cocking the trigger and simultaneously turning the drum, ...

Today, when we are witnessing an amazing return to trench warfare, it makes sense to think about the "return of the maxim." And about returning on a new basis. In symbiosis with a reconnaissance UAV, ...

Today, 3D printing technologies can be used to produce weapons and ammunition. An example that has become a textbook refers to an event 10 years ago. Then in 2013, an American student...

The Stevens Company, which has gone by various names many times, has an interesting history. It was founded in 1864, that is, towards the end of the Civil War, by Joshua Stevens, who had previously been...

Perhaps the Russian arms industry is in for a big shock. And perhaps everything will remain at the level of “There are no analogues and there is no need” ...

And it so happened that the simple American girl Annie Oakley, who had a difficult, half-starved childhood, gained worldwide fame for her marksmanship skills. And good shooting...

This very tricky question was not given to the organizers of the post-war pistol competition, and it is still found among the myths about weapons. I am answering the question from the comments to the previous one in detail ...

Particulars of the use of sniper weapons in the NWO ...

And it so happened that the famous Ian McCollum a few years ago in his Forgotten Weapons reviewed a couple of very interesting bolt-action rifles, which he called "mystery rifles" ....

In addition to the general types of lever rifles named and shown in the previous material, readers wanted to look at them somewhat from a closer distance. Well, today is this...

The First World War ended and showed that it was impossible to fight in the next such war without a reliable light machine gun. Moreover, she also determined his performance characteristics. The new machine gun was not supposed to resemble ...

The shutter control mechanism using a lever located under the bolt box appeared for the first time not on Winchester rifles, and not even on a Henry rifle, but on a Jennings rifle, which with ...

Not every "Winchester", that is, a gun with a bracket at the bottom, is a "Winchester", even if these guns look like two drops of water, there was another gun with a lever reloading system popular in the USA, and even ...

It must have annoyed the army that the navy was now armed with bolt-action rifles while its soldiers were still running around with single-shot rifles...

Creation of an air-cooled machine gun arr. 1900 was a great achievement for both the Hotchkiss company and the French military, who were able to understand that, in addition to Maxim machine guns, they have the right ...

In 1875, James Paris Lee patented the main invention of his life - a detachable box magazine for a rifle. And already in 1878 he developed a truly revolutionary rifle with this ...

We have noted many times that as soon as some effective type of weapon appears, a lot of inventors immediately appear who try to either improve it or simply bypass the existing ones ...

In the early 1900s, Samuel McClean, a physician by training, abandoned his medical practice at age 40 and designed and manufactured a large 37mm automatic cannon that was mounted on a pedestal...

Everyone who decides to buy a gun and / or a traumatic pistol should first figure out what kind of weapon can be purchased and how to get all the necessary permits ...

The machine gun, which will be discussed today, was designed by Colonel of the American Army Isaac Newton Lewis in 1911, while he used the developments of Samuel McLean. But between the general...

In 1903, the French government, having made sure that one way or another, but the country's army already possesses a suitable machine gun of a rifle caliber, thought about how, in addition to ...

Captain Odkolek with his machine gun found himself in a situation that the inventor does not always have to face. That is, he completely unconsciously ended up exactly there and exactly when ...

Iran has developed and is producing the Dehlaviyeh anti-tank missile system. It is believed that it is a copy or a revised version of the Russian ATGM "Kornet" in the export version....

It so happened that the Austrian officer, Baron Adolf Odkolek von Augezd) became interested in the design of weapons and in 1889 received his first privilege for a machine gun driven by automatics from powder ...