Dagger of Ferburn-Sykes
Special services agents use not only pistols with a silencer. Often, especially during the Second World War, cold weapons were used. The most probably famous dagger of the Special Forces Second ...
How much does a gun cost?
Shock from the price tag. Anyone who bought a car understands what we are going to talk about. I myself was surprised to learn that a similar situation was observed with the purchase of firearms. Fortunately, when I first ...
In Brazil, adopted a new machine IMBEL IA-2
The Brazilian Ministry of Defense at the end of October 2013 of the year decided to adopt a new machine gun under the designation IA-2, which was created by IMBEL (Industria de Materiel Belico do ...
Ithaca M6: "combination" for the survival of the pilot
Many rightly believe that the firearm of armored vehicles, pilots and others is a secondary weapon and in most cases completely useless, due to the fact that ...
Colt's cap revolvers in the Russian Empire
A separate and very important issue is the presence of capsule revolvers in the Russian army during the Crimean War and their production in Russia. It is known that even before the bankruptcy of the first arms enterprise ...
Air rifle: a toy or a weapon?
The overwhelming majority of people who were brought up during the Soviet era are accustomed to considering an air rifle only as a mandatory attribute of shooting galleries located in parks of culture and recreation. How...
SPP pistol. Bullying PP TMP
Pistols, whose ancestors were submachine guns, not so much. There are several reasons for this. First of all, the submachine gun is somewhat larger in size than the pistol. Mass of ...
Anzio Ironworks Heavy Sniper Rifles
The use of 20 caliber of ammunition for high-precision shooting originates during the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. The Finns during this war to fight Soviet tanks ...
Gun Sig Sauer Limited Edition
5.11 Tactical, together with Sig Sauer, began work on a new limited edition pistol. Although the release date has not been set yet, its release is expected soon. The gun is built on ...
Revolver Tseliski system: the most powerful in its class
In the second half of the XX century, the most powerful in the world was the American hunting revolver “Casull”, which was created in the distant 1959 year. The energy of the bullet of this revolver was 1923 joule. AND...
Small size, large caliber
In 1987 – 1989, the system of domestic rifle weapons was replenished with unique products created at TsNIITOCHMASH: a silent sniper complex that included a special sniper rifle VSS ...
Short Pecheneg light machine gun
The Kovrov Plant named after Dyagtereva developed a shortened assault light machine gun "Pecheneg" according to the "bull-pap" scheme. Weapons designed for special forces. As ammunition is used ...
The legendary Scorpion pistol in a traumatic version - Scorpion Sa vz.61 Rubber
Gas pistol Škorpion (Scorpion) Sa vz. 61 caliber 9, which has the ability to fire rubber bullet cartridges, is a civilian weapon that is a means of effective self-defense. The main ...
The first "smart" rifle
We have already written about a computerized telescopic sight developed by Texan startup TrackingPoint. And now, when the rifle, equipped with it, is sold with might and main, we will tell in detail what exactly ...
The gunner must and can hit the head piece (Part of 2)
The first part of the article shows that the armies of the whole world teach their soldiers to take a firing position “high enough to observe all targets, but remain as low as possible” ....
The gunner must and can hit the head piece (Part of 1)
In the past two decades in hostilities, where our small arms were used against small arms manufactured in the USA, the ratio of casualties is not in favor of our weapons. But...
Ares "Shrike" light machine gun (USA)
The Ares “Shrike” light machine gun was born as an attempt to create a conversion kit for reworking regular M16 machines into a version of a light-powered machine gun with tape feed (platoon support weapon, ...
Folding submachine guns
Submachine guns have been used for almost a hundred years. Firmly occupying a niche between pistols and assault rifles, submachine guns are widely used in police and military ...
Unknown Kalash
Experienced Kalashnikov automatic arr. 1964 g. With a balanced automation system. Most gas engine automation systems are distinguished by a complex impulse diagram, which is especially sensitive ...
Heavy machine gun NSV NSVT 12.7 "Rock"
Machine gun NSV-12,7 "Cliff" (Index GRAU - 6П11) - a machine gun designed to combat lightly armored ground targets (armored personnel carriers), firing points and targets that are ...
Hitler saw and her heirs (from MG.42 to MG3)
Nearly six decades ago, World War II ended. Its battles became history, in which the warring parties used the latest weapons and military equipment of that time. How...
Features of the national artisanal weapons. Made in Ukraine
At the request of Esquire, an expert of the criminalistic center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Colonel Igor Ignatiev appreciated the skill of underground gunsmiths on home-made cuts, pistols and revolvers ....
The world's smallest acting revolver
We thought it was the Japanese - fans of all the little ones, as exemplified by their love for miniature bonsai trees. But it turns out there is a nation that can argue with them in its ...
From “Madsen” to “Pecheneg” is not an easy way!
The history of the light machine gun dates back to the beginning of the last century. Russia was one of the first to use this powerful new weapon, and during the first quarter of the century only foreign ...