There will be a new machine gun
Recently, the Kalashnikov concern presented several promising weapons. Some of them are intended for foreign buyers, as they are designed for ammunition that...
Another pistol for agent 007
Among the great variety of all kinds of pistols that have been created to date and have not found combat use for a number of reasons, there are those that... enjoyed great success with...
Automatic Mannlicher rifles chambered for smokeless powder
Like the previous model, this weapon had a barrel that rolled back along with the bolt inside the barrel casing. The barrel was equipped with its own return spring. The bolt also had a wedge...
Unusual pistols with a gas release mechanism
It happens that the too strange developments of designers simply frighten ordinary people, and therefore they remain only in the memory of historians. Here's a look at a few of these pistol designs from the last century...
And again about kris as examples of a wavy blade
Opinion from the point of view of the manufacturer, blacksmith and user...
If you really want something new: the original Larsen-Winteross gun
This amazing weapon was patented in 1886 and bears two marks from the Liege test bench. The double name means that it was invented by two designers, both of Swedish origin...
Homemade tool for complex tasks
Recently, the information field was literally torn apart by news about a new domestic machine gun called PKZ. This is, let’s say, a modernized Kalashnikov machine gun that responds to the requests of fighters in the Northern Military District zone...
Front edge smoothbore: shotguns for use in air defense
Recommendations for the selection, modification and use of smooth-bore weapons for protection against small UAVs in the northwestern military zone...
Unborn domestic “saw”
Although belt-fed light machine guns chambered for a low-pulse intermediate cartridge have been a known, commonplace and widespread thing for almost 50 years, they are not in our Armed Forces....
History of automatic weapons. Where it all began
Attempts to create a weapon capable of independently reloading and firing began quite early and... late at the same time. It turned out that it could have been done even at the very beginning of the 19th century, but...
Amok dagger – Malay kris
What is kris? Dagger - if anyone doesn’t know this. But the dagger is unusual. Unusual, to say the least...
Third most common US weapon 1861–1865
The Austrian Lorenz Muster rifle of the 1854 model was the third most common weapon of the American Civil War, that is, most of the northerners and southerners fought in this war not with their own...
Another rifle from the museum
This rifle first entered service with the British Army in 1871, replacing the redesigned Snyder-Enfield system. After that, the Martini-Henry rifle was used almost throughout...
Cold steel from the museum
We continue the series of stories about weapons that are in the possession of the Penza Regional Museum of Local Lore. And there are many very interesting examples of edged weapons from the past....
Gun cartridges for combating UAVs from the Tekhkrim company
To combat light UAVs, smooth-bore guns with shotgun cartridges are widely used. The Tekhkrim company recently developed and introduced new cartridges, originally designed to combat...
Weapons with double curved blades from India, Sudan and... Penza
The scimitar shape of the blade was characteristic not only of ancient swords such as mahaira, kopis and the same eastern scimitars, but also of India and Nepal, where short rather than long blades spread, but...
Sniper fly swatter for special forces, paratroopers and marines
After the Victory Parade in Moscow, several photos of FSO snipers appeared with what some publications claimed was a new weapon for them, namely a rifle - Steyr-Mannlicher SSG 08....
About the RPG-7 grenade, which penetrates almost a meter of steel armor
About the most powerful anti-tank grenade for RPG-7...
Austrian rifles and pistols with Vincenza Augustin lock
Augustine came up with the idea of screwing a short tube, called a “core,” into the ignition hole of the barrel. The core went halfway into the lock itself, and the tube was inserted halfway into it again...
Heckler & Koch will develop weapons for Soviet cartridges
Heckler & Koch plans to develop new modifications of existing weapons chambered for Soviet/Russian cartridges. Due to this they want to attract new customers and improve...
The first of the first: the Miller brothers' drum-type rifle
The Miller brothers' gun was very simple. It just couldn't be simpler. Suffice it to say that although it had a seven-shot drum, it was turned manually. That is, the brothers did not think of the mechanism...
Weapons with double curved blades
It is believed that the scimitar began to be used in the 16th century. But whoever thought of a blade in which the blade near the hilt deflects down at a fairly large angle from the handle, then goes...
Cold steel from the museum
Interesting examples of edged weapons from the collection of the Penza Regional Museum of Local Lore...
Austrian tubular capsules from the early 19th century
The system of igniting a powder charge in the barrel of a firearm using a tubular lock is considered a dead end in the history of firearms. This type of lock system died, nothing more...