In the new semi-automatic pistol, Paul Mauser saw a design that could be both enlarged and reduced to the cartridge used. That is, to have a pronounced market orientation ....

In 1831, a certain Ethan Allen began making cutlery in Milford, Massachusetts. In addition, Allen made knives and tools needed by shoemakers. Allen then moved his...

It became known about the combat use of silent mortars 2B25 "Gall". This weapon allows special forces to hit enemy targets without unmasking themselves....

In a huge number of revolvers of known systems, unusual designs are now somehow completely lost. This is not surprising, since already in the same XNUMXth century they were a curiosity or known only to a narrow ...

Having become the manager of one of Roth's enterprises in 1898, Karel Krnka already in 1900 co-authored a new pistol with him. The pistol was distinguished by complex automation and was made in the style of a model ...

The revolver has a very annoying drawback: after you shoot the drum, you need to remove the shells from it and load it again, which takes a lot of time. Therefore it was...

Karel Krnka gained considerable fame among the creators of pistols, and even, moreover, he stood on a par with those whose samples were not only created and tested, but were also put into service, ...

By the end of the 19th century, the revolver reached, in fact, its maximum perfection. But with all the perfection achieved, he turned out to have two ineradicable shortcomings. There was only one way - to come up with such ...

Rheinmetall for the first time introduced the promising SSW40 hand grenade launcher. As stated, this product combines high fire performance and ease of use....

In the United States, a choice was made regarding a new automatic rifle of a new caliber, which will have to become a weapon "for a long time" ....

In the XNUMXth century, dentists, photographers and merchants also took on the creation of firearms. But there were not so many titled among them. But there are no rules without exception, and the results...

During the Special Operation, various models of weapons are tested. The DXL-3 Retribution high-precision rifle, designed for counter-sniper...

Today our story is dedicated to the most, shall we say, "unusual" weapons in the world. And this, again, will be a Gasser model 1870 revolver, but it will be unusual because it is probably ...

Leopold Gasser became famous for a very special revolver, called the Montenegrin. That's what we're going to talk about today....

Swiss SIG Sauer has won a ten-year contract to supply weapons to the US Army...

A number of very interesting revolvers remained in the shadow of the “revolver”, which could well have been in service with our army and would have proven themselves no worse in it, but they didn’t hit and therefore ...

When the first capsule revolvers appeared in the arsenal of the military, the question of how to discharge them did not arise. Shot from it - that's discharged. Not so with cartridge revolvers. Empty shell...

New PDW rifle in .300 Blackout in service with US SOCOM...

It just so happened that in Russian colloquial speech the word "revolver" even began to be used as a synonym for the word revolver, and even a pistol. The reason is the wide distribution and popularity ...

Gunsmiths understood that it was very important to make sure that the shooter could replenish the ammunition of his weapon and not remain unarmed in the face of a new enemy. And the easiest way to solve this problem...

Why is preference given to one and is there a chance for the other...

There was also a gunsmith-general in history who first designed a cannon, and then two rifles, first an ordinary bolt-action rifle, and the other an automatic one. And it wouldn't be so...

In 1899, the US War Department decided to hold a competition among the semi-automatic pistols that existed at that time and chose three of the most promising models for testing: the Mauser C96, ...

What will we shoot from rifles made in Russia ...