Nuremberg is a recognized center of appearance of short-barreled weapons. The arms of this city are decorated with many weapons, which have reached our time and amaze with the amazing beauty of decoration and ...

At the MILIPOL 2013 exhibition, FN Herstal introduced the FN Minimi 5,56 mm Mk3 light machine gun. As the site marks Small Arms - Infantry Weapons, in the new version of the famous change machine gun ...

Our author tried to solve an incredibly difficult task in the arms business - to create a food system of increased capacity for light machine guns, / while preserving the weight of rifle systems in reasonable ...

Since the last century, the revolvers of the American firm Colt from Hartford, Connecticut, have won wide fame outside the United States as a reliable handgun. It was applied ...

The Duck Foot pistol gets its name from the fan-shaped barrels that resemble the webbed feet of a duck. The pistol has a single ignition system for all barrels, i.e. this is...

In 1982, the US military had 418 000 automatic pistols Colt M 1911A1. The first version of this weapon was introduced in 1911, in 1921, the pistol was ...

After the Second World War, the American firm Armalite Inc., Costa Mesa, California, produced hunting, sporting and military rifles, which were marked with a special AR badge. It...

A new T-5000 ORSIS sniper rifle has been developed in Russia, which will be able to replace the currently popular samples of foreign production in domestic special forces. No need to talk about ...

From sights to thermal imagers, the market for rifle assistive devices has always been an area of ​​active development. However, the desire to realize the multitasking potential of sniper units is still ...

In June, the 2013 of the year after the passage of the State Test program, the Ministry of Defense of Russia adopted the latest 12,7-mm sniper complex 6-8 "Kord". It is intended to ...

In 2012, the American company TrackingPoint introduced its new development called Precision Guided Firearms (PGF). In the smart sighting system PGF were included several electronic ...

In the middle of the last century, gunsmiths of the leading countries of the world were engaged in the creation of promising rifle systems. Simultaneously, work was carried out, the purpose of which was to increase the rate of fire, accuracy, ...

Since the end of 1983, this model has been mass-produced by the enterprises of the state-owned arms factory Cesko-slovenska Zbrojovka (CZ). The design of this weapon met the requirements of the international ...

Qatar, or as it is also sometimes called jamadhar, refers to the tychkovye daggers or daggers that have brass grip. Translated, the word "Qatar" means: a tooth, a blade, or the most exotic meaning ...

In order to increase the range of manufactured weapons and attract the attention of potential customers, a pistol-carbine was developed on the basis of a Mauser K-96 pistol by Waffenfabrik Mauser. Weapon ...

The history of knives began with knives, in which the blade was rigidly attached to the handle and was constantly ready to work. Currently, despite the wide spread of folding knives, such knives are not ...

Since ancient times, the main weapon of divers is considered to be a knife, but the enemy is better to stop on the way. To this end, underwater developments have been and are being carried out all over the world ...

14 January 2014, the newly established Russian weapons concern Kalashnikov, part of the Rostec state corporation, has entered into an agreement with the Russian Weapon Company (RWC). The agreement was ...

Expansive or, as they are also called, "dum-dum" bullets, are special bullets, the design of which provides for a significant increase in their diameter when they hit the soft tissues of a person, which ...

Special-purpose rifle Mk12 MOD1 belongs to the family of weapons AR-15 / M16. It was originally developed for U. 5 units. SOCOM (Special Operations Command). Self-loading ...

In the summer of 1942 in the village of Bilimbay, a group of engineers at an aircraft factory evacuated from Moscow tried (privately) to find a means of significantly increasing muzzle velocity and, therefore, armor-piercing ...

Caucasian flint locks belong to the Mediterranean type of locks, which are very often called a mikelet (miquelet lock). Similar locks were widely used on Spanish weapons and Ottoman weapons ...

It is difficult to imagine men indifferent to small arms. After all, a good and accurate shot is for any representative of the "stronger sex" a source of incomparable pleasure ....

Joe Manley, a Navy veteran, offered an original, albeit somewhat dubious, solution for close combat. His company Manly Innovations is preparing to launch a device under the ...