In modern wars and local military conflicts, a significant role is assigned to special reconnaissance and sabotage operations conducted on the territory of the enemy. For such operations in armies ...

What do we know about the South Korean company Daewoo? Cars "Matiz" and "Nexia", microwaves, washing machines, well, and ... everything seems. And the fact that this company also produces weapons ... very good shooting ...

Specialists of the research and production enterprise VALAR, located in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine, created and tested a rather unusual non-lethal impact weapon - a manual ...

The weapon (small, in particular) is a tool. And if the Kalashnikov assault rifle is a vivid example of a mass universal instrument, then the new large-caliber VKS sniper rifle, which will be discussed ...

There is no need to write about the big role and importance of sniper weapons today, this is a phrase on the ear of everyone. I will only list the main situations in which its use is most effective ...

One of the main topics in the field of rearmament of our army in recent years has become a promising machine gun. A new type of small arms must be put into service over the coming years or even ...

The free sale of firearms in the West and, above all, in the United States is a good incentive for a related service industry that deals with the production and sale of ...

Slingshot held in the hands of every boy. However, hardly anyone perceives it as a real weapon. And in vain! A number of companies in the West produce slingshots not only as children's toys, but also in ...

In recent years, the Russian defense industry has faced a rather nontrivial problem. Suddenly (!) It became clear that the bins of the Motherland are full of small arms of varying degrees of antiquity. Against this background, in ...

In Russia, all 2% of legally acquired weapons are used to commit crimes. And all these 2% offenses committed on domestic soil, usually in the heat of passion, delirium tremens or ...

“The ruin is not in the closet, but in the heads,” said Professor Preobrazhensky’s hero Bulgakov. Approximately the same opinion is shared by our author, an instructor in fire training. He is sure that ...

It so happened that after the Second World War, fire training, before the basis of training a fighter, began to lose its former value. It was assumed that in modern battle, the main defeat ...

The Kalashnikov assault rifle continues to be one of the most common types of small arms in the world and the main rifle unit of the Russian infantry. Given this, this weapon ...

The use of a relatively low-power pistol cartridge, on the one hand, limits the range of an aimed shot of 150 – 200 to meters, on the other hand, it allows to get a light, compact sample with ...

The TKB-059 volley fire automatic machine is a unique example of Russian engineering thought, created by the Soviet designer of small arms German Alexandrovich Korobov (1912-2006). Triple ...

Hand-gun - this is how the full name “Rucni Top” of a large-caliber RT-20 Croatian rifle is deciphered. This mini-monster was created in the middle of 1990, during the Serbian ...

In the entire history of small arms, a huge number of various systems have been developed. The bezgolzovoe weapon is quite interesting, but if you ask interested people about it, many will lead ...

In 1993, Kalashnikov and Dragunov (junior) made the first version of the new submachine gun called the Bison PP-19. It was developed for the 9x18 cartridge (both standard and ...

The PPD, contrary to legends, was not copied from the Finnish "Suomi" at all. In 2010, there are two significant anniversaries at once: 75 years ago, a submachine gun of the V. A. Degtyarev system was adopted and ...

In the late fifties and early sixties in the USSR, designers Dvoryaninov and Shiryayev carried out work on subcaliber swept ammunition. Shiryaev in the 1961 year created under these ammunition ...

By the 30 years of the 20th century, the world military thought finally and irrevocably established itself in the idea that a lot of troops is, of course, good, but it is even better if this mass of troops releases as much as possible ...

For many submachine guns that were used by Soviet soldiers on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War, these are primarily Shpagin submachine guns — the famous PPSh ....

The Bergmann / Schmeisser MP.18 submachine gun, I or otherwise Maschinen Pistole Modell 1918 was developed by the German gunsmith Louis Schmeisser, the father of another ...

The thirties of the last century was marked by the birth of a new type of troops - paratroop formations, which first appeared in the Soviet Union. The date of birth of the Soviet airborne ...