Building an effective air defense system is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. The desire to simplify and reduce the cost of building air defense has led to the emergence of several original ideas. TO...

At one time, revolvers were the most progressive class of small arms, because they allowed to make a series of shots without reloading. In the future, they gave way to self-loading pistols, ...

In the middle of the 90-s in China, the QBZ-95 assault rifle, designed for the cartridge of the caliber 5.8xXNNXXmm, was adopted. This rifle was equipped with units of the PLA ...

The production of sports replicas of famous models of historical firearms for a long period of time engaged in the company German Sport Guns (GSG). Distinctive feature ...

Gauss rifle - a weapon that can shoot ferromagnetic projectiles. To accelerate the bullet is used not the pressure of the powder gases, and the magnetic field. The principle of its work is quite simple: along ...

Currently, a relatively small number of automation systems are used in small arms. When using different technologies and innovations, these systems allow you to create new ...

But the people currently occupying responsible posts in our Ministry of Defense are still preparing to fight only with a “massive, speedy goal” and do not want to hear anything about the need for a machine gunner ...

Civilian weapons should be radically different from the combat. Legalization of short-barreled weapons has many adherents and opponents. As a supporter of legalization, the author of this material ...

Photos of new assault rifles, which are being developed in Poland, have appeared on the Internet. One of them is made according to the bullpup scheme, the second according to the classical scheme. These rifles are MSBS-5,56 ...

The Swiss company Sphinx Systems SA is based in the city of Porrentruy. Her work in the field of weapons production began in the 1990-ies after the acquisition of the well-known company ITM - Industrial Technology ...

Small arms - this is the main weapon of any army in the world. It is used in armed conflicts of any degree of intensity. The effectiveness of its use depends not only on ...

13 April 1939 of the year, exactly 75 years ago, by the decree of the Defense Committee, a synchronous machine gun of a BS designed by M. Ye. Berezin was adopted by the Red Army. Designing a powerful 12,7-mm ...

Breda is one of the oldest and most important Italian manufacturers of semi-automatic hunting rifles. She recently presented her next new product at the IWA & OutdoorClassics exhibition...

In 2000, the prototype was presented, and in 2006, the batch production of Rhino double-action revolvers, designed by Italian engineer Emilio Gizoni, began. At present...

9-mm self-loading pistol "Gyurza" was developed at the beginning of 1990 in TsNIITOCHMASH by Peter Ivanovich Serdyukov. At the end of 1996, it was adopted for the special forces of the FSO and the FSB ....

The ease of use and operation of small arms depends not only on the qualities and characteristics of the weapon itself, but also on the accompanying equipment, for example, tactical weapon belts. AT...

What can be common between Alain Delon, Sylvester Stallone and the TDI KRISS Super V submachine gun? Finnish Jatimatic submachine gun! The fact is that PP Jatimatic was used as a ...

In the middle of March, at some forum, I accidentally found a picture of a weapon, hitherto unknown to me, and it caught my attention with its unusual appearance. Shape forend and receiver cover ...

The story of the company CAA began in 90-ies, when a young officer of the anti-terrorist unit of the Israeli police, Moshe Oz, participated in a night operation to neutralize armed ...

At the latest European arms exhibitions, a small but rapidly growing company Tactics Group GmbH from the city of Frankfurt (Germany), which introduced the P-18 -...

Now China has a powerful defense industry capable of developing and producing various weapons systems and military equipment. The current successes have been achieved for several decades ...

While working at TsKIB SOO I happened to hear from Yu. P. Platonov - the head of the theoretical department and one of the veterans of the organization - such a story. Somewhere in the mid-1990s I. Ya ...

A peculiar device for an automatic pistol, known under the pseudonym Reform (4-Barrel "Reform" Brevete Pocket Pistol), appeared in the early years of the 20th century. It has a very simple design, ...

18 February 1866 was born in Cetllo Tribuzio in the south of Italy in the city of Voltri. Since childhood, with his father, he was engaged in arms, to his credit several patents of various types ...