Among the participants of the Polish resistance movement there were real nuggets. One of them, the peasant Henrik Stronpoch, designed his own submachine gun, which received an unofficial ...

Combat, information and auxiliary contours of promising small arms ...

Unclear prospects for the NGSW program - it seems that the winner has been decided, and the revolution in small arms is being postponed ...

Morgenstern, who gained fame among citizens, even as far as possible from modern Russian rap music, was known long before Bastrykin's attention. And it's not about the musician...

Almost all military weapons, including pistols, are nothing more than a compromise cleverly found by its creator between its quality and price. Swiss pistols from SIG - recognized as one of the ...

When the word "revolver" is heard, most of those who hear it recall either a revolver or a Colt. Moreover, if you ask "who invented the revolver", then in 80% of cases the answer will be the same - "Colt". And what is on ...

Not so long ago, the British newspaper "Daily Mail" reported that British special forces acquired 150 Gepard GM6 Lynx rifles capable of shooting down planes, helicopters and armored vehicles with one shot ...

We will begin to get acquainted with Star pistols from 1908, although this pistol itself appeared at the end of 1907. His barrel was motionless, the casing-bolt had ribbed washers for the fingers: that's why oh ...

There are many examples of how careless handling of a weapon harms, first of all, the one who uses it. And many arms companies have been working on ...

At the end of 1943, Nazi Germany began to use the latest Panzerfaust grenade launchers at the front. They were supposed to become a massive and effective anti-tank weapon, but real ...

Robinson Armament Co. Is an American manufacturer of firearms. In 2009, the company's staff consisted of only 15 people, and nevertheless, it produces military-grade rifles, including ...

It happens so, but before it happened all the time that, while designing a pistol or a rifle, its creator created, first of all, a cartridge, and only then made this or that weapon for it ...

Bullpup layout in small arms of the past, present and future ...

Review of patents and description of additional fuses for police parabellum. The history of their appearance. Fuse design performance analysis ...

Carbon fiber is carbon fiber, a material made up of fine filaments that are 5 to 10 microns in diameter and formed by carbon atoms. Carbon fibers have a low specific gravity, ...

A special modification of the Parabellum for the police, equipped with additional fuses. Types, design of additional fuses. Overview of patents and the history of the emergence of the police ...

Despite the effectiveness of the first fire-fighting guns, firing from them was extremely slow. Therefore, it is not surprising that they immediately tried to speed up the reloading of handguns. So...

The history of the creation of the first Finnish pistols ...

It is difficult to say that Herbert Werle had a "firm". He had a shop that sold hunting rifles, and the shop had a workshop in which he was engaged in "tuning" Georg's pistols ...

During the First World War, the belligerent countries actively experimented in the field of creating various weapons. One such experiment was a German hand-held disk grenade ...

Today our story will be about a pistol), which was designed by Joseph Joachim Reifgraber, who was born on August 16, 1856 in Austria ...

It has always been and will be that someone, having something done in front of their eyes, as well as skillful hands and head on their shoulders, wants to do the same, but better! Here is a pistol designed by Aimo Lahti L-35 ...

English archers have become the hallmark of medieval England. It is believed that it was thanks to the human-sized long bows that the British troops won victories in the Hundred Years War ...

The market demanded not only large and powerful pistols, but also very small, so to speak, ladies' pistols, that is, even smaller than the 1900 model and chambered for a weaker cartridge. And - if it is necessary, then it is necessary ...