The history of the very first Browning pistol began back in 1895. It was then that he offered the Colt company a pistol invented by him with automatic equipment operating by removing powder gases from the barrel ...

In 1903, the Walter family built a small factory on the Katzenbuckel in Zella Mehlis. The company became known as "Karl Walter Waffenfabrik" ....

The Izhevsk arms company "Tekhkrim" in the fall of 2021 presented its new product - the TK502 gun. Weapons attract a lot of attention, and this interest is understandable ...

Several foreign countries are armed with the Nashshab anti-tank rocket launcher. This product is an interesting example of military-technical cooperation between Russia and ...

Development of 12,7 mm rifles in Russia began later than in the United States. But, despite this, our gunsmiths managed to create a number of samples that are not inferior and often superior to foreign designs ...

The Russian company Lobaev Arms presented a promising DXL-5 Havoc sniper rifle. In fact, we are talking about a complex capable of using different cartridges and showing the highest combat ...

Submachine guns, which became widespread during the Second World War, have not lost their importance today. This weapon is widely used by special forces around the world ...

What revolvers were used by French officers and soldiers at the turn of the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries ...

There are people who are directly related to the Luger pistol today. For example - this is Evgeny Golubtsov, better known as "Lugerman", a man who is considered today one of the best gunsmiths ...

In the history of firearms, there are many interesting projects that differed from others either by their unusual technical solutions or by their extravagant appearance. And first on them ...

The Russian army has tested a new means of countering UAVs. During one of the recent exercises at the test site, they tested a promising hand-held complex "Harpoon-3" ....

The M1901 self-loading semi-automatic pistol "Mannlicher" was one of the earliest designs of a self-loading pistol and, moreover, this pistol was one of the simplest ever created ...

Ersatz weapons are rarely successful, but this does not prevent us from pinning high hopes on it. A good example of this is the Ukrainian large-caliber rifle PG-14,5 "Nichny Khizhak" ....

The Luger pistol was delivered to Russia twice: in 1902 and 1907. Officially, these pistols were not adopted by the Russian Imperial Army, but the officers were allowed to use them ...

We are talking about a rather little-known pistol М1898, which would have looked quite modern even in the middle of the XNUMXth century ... ...

The first meeting between C.J. Ebets and Browning took place in May 1891, and then they not only worked together, but also became friends. Well, it is obvious that communication with Browning prompted Ebets himself to experience ...

A one-of-a-kind serial pistol with a wide variety of calibers and types of interchangeable barrels. History of the creation of standard and non-standard cartridges for Auto Mag and their overview ...

The Luger pistol at the beginning of the twentieth century became perhaps the most widespread pistol in Europe. His history in the USA was also very interesting ... ...

Although the main goal of DWM was originally to obtain a German military contract for the supply of Luger pistols, in reality this only happened after this pistol was ...

12,7 mm sniper rifles are mainly designed to combat unarmored and lightly armored vehicles. They can be very effective when shooting at planes and helicopters, ...

Georg Luger entered the world of weapons thanks to his joint work with Ferdinand von Mannlicher, and by the time of his transfer to Loewe's company in 1891, he had been developing rifle ...

It is incredibly difficult to create an effective firearm design. And very often it happens that what seems simple - and therefore reliable, does not work well. And vice versa! Exactly...

Sometimes the flight of human thought is so impetuous that it overtakes its time by whole decades, and that's exactly what happened with the bullpup system ...

It often happens that something new - a certain technical novelty - appears immediately in a fairly perfect form. But more often the path to perfection is very long and difficult! Such is, for example, and ...