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 ...

The American Civil War spawned a demand for personal self-defense firearms. Particularly popular were compact pistols and revolvers, which could easily be hidden in ...

One of the most unusual pistols of the late 19th century can be safely called the Mars automatic pistol (Gabbet-Fairfax Mars Automatic Pistol). It was a very massive and powerful weapon, but extremely ...

The prototype of a laser gun During the Cold War, political tensions were high and sometimes reached marasmic limits. And the idea of ​​"Soviet cosmonaut" against "American cosmonaut" ...

Return has a great influence on the accuracy of small arms. An impulse directed back and up shifts the barrel away from the aiming line, due to which a bullet can be fired with a deviation ...

The great French revolution not only brought the spirit of democracy. In the wake of violence and unrest, street gangs, the so-called Apaches, appeared. They were christened after one of the Indian tribes for ...

The 9-mm submachine gun SR.2М developed in TsNIITOCHMASH (it was shown at the MILIPOL 2013 exhibition in Paris) is designed to defeat manpower, including in personal protective equipment of the second ...

The effectiveness of the use of small arms during the execution of a number of specific combat missions depends very much on the maximum camouflage of the shooting and the suddenness of the combat operation ....

Confusion often arises when using the terms "automatic" and "assault rifle". In fact, we are talking about the same type of weapon, only the first term is used in Russia, but ...

Special attention is currently being paid to the Russian army: the number of contract servicemen has increased, the nutrition of the soldiers has improved, all everyday issues have been gradually shifted to outsourcing companies, ...

I would like to start the review of the most interesting foreign knives of the past with a triangular combat knife, which had a purely practical value in medieval Germany - to break the links of a knight's chain mail, ...

When I hear the phrase "combat knife", in my imagination there is an image of a shark - a predator, an ideal killer, not changed by the evolution from the time of dinosaurs, who survived them to this day ...

Ever since the Civil War, the Red Army commanders paid great attention to personal firearms. Such qualities as reliability and efficiency, were put on the 1-e place. At the same time in ...

Diamondback Firearms presented a pistol version of the DB15 carbine. New pistol assigned the designation DB15 Pistol. New compact small arms will be offered in several ...

Due to its unique properties, Karambit is used by some police officers as an addition to a firearm. In the United States after the increasing incidence of attacks on policemen ...

The company Dublin AK Systems, founded in 2009, is engaged in the creation of various improvements that allow Kalashnikov assault rifles to meet modern requirements. In company...

Created by the brilliant designer D. Browning automatic rifle BAR М1918 is a landmark weapon. The BAR rifle, which began service in the 1917 year, was produced right up to ...

Currently, police and counter-terrorism units of various countries of the world have in their arsenal a huge number of means of destruction, including such typically army ...

At the MILIPOL 2013 exhibition, Beretta showed the Beretta ARX-160 Coyote assault rifle, created as part of the Soldier of the Future program (Italian Soldato Futuro). ARX-160 is an element ...

Several years ago, a number of well-known manufacturers of optical sights decided to master a new direction - combining the sight with a laser rangefinder. The main idea of ​​such a single module is ...

After 40 years of service of the MINIMI light machine gun, FN introduced another updated version of this machine gun, which in the United States is better known as “light machine gun М249 ...