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 ...

The Swedish company Saab is launching the production of a new HE 448 programmable shot for the Carl Gustaf grenade launcher. Sweden has already become the first buyer of such ammunition, and in the near future ...

V. G. Fedorov also took up an automatic rifle - he taught at that time at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School and presented his first model just at the end of the Russo-Japanese War already in ...

In 1903, John Browning had the idea to release a very small, small-caliber pistol for direct self-defense. The design of a pistol with a barrel connected to the frame with...

The GSh-18 pistol is already quite well known. But mostly theoretically. Much more interesting to get to know him in practice ...

John Browning, continuing to consistently improve the basic model of the 1900 pistol, each time he created more and more perfect samples of this pistol, and they spread more and more ...

A lot of clamshell revolvers were invented. But from the point of view of mechanics, such a revolver device was not optimal. After all, it was necessary to recharge only the drum. That is, with...

The final part of the article "AK-12 as a mirror of the status quo"...

The history of the transformation of MANPADS from the Ford company ...

An attempt to develop requirements for an actual modern machine gun based on an analysis of existing design and technological solutions and production realities of the AK-12. Layout and features...

Design features, advantages and disadvantages of the AK-12...

To be able to return a pistol to a holster with one hand, it must be made of a sufficiently rigid material that holds its shape well so that it does not deform when the weapon is not...

The American FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank systems have been widely used in recent conflicts and have shown their capabilities. Such weapons have confirmed the ability to solve a number of combat missions, but real ...

The word holster itself is of Turkish origin and can mean "case" and "quiver". In Russia, holsters were also called olsters, olstryads and ingots until the era of the reign of Alexander I, who commanded ...

Everyone knows that in the XNUMXth century the famous Colt revolver appeared in the USA, that there were Smith and Wesson, Remington, but ... there were also enough designs sometimes quite exotic, and today we ...

The latest history of development? SPV through the eyes of a participant...

Dushmans received MANPADS of Soviet, Egyptian, Chinese, British and American production. The most famous portable complex is the American "Stinger" ...

A huge number of people strive to do everything possible to be different from others. So gunsmith designers quite often tried to create a “special” weapon. The result was...

The Ukrainian army received foreign anti-tank missile systems MILAN. Now they are being mastered with the help of foreign instructors, and in the near future such weapons may get to the front ...

The Thales LMM multi-purpose guided missile is entering service with the UK and other countries. It can be used on helicopters, land and sea platforms, as well as in portable...

In early 19th century Europe, people mostly traveled in carriages. And where there are carriages, there are money and jewels. So the robbers got into the habit of robbing these carriages, and the travelers started from them ...

There were many excellent weapons in history, with which they fought and were heroes, but which, for a number of reasons, did not become known, or were known at one time, and then just ...

Ukraine recently received the first batch of German-made RGW 90 MATADOR anti-tank grenades. The ongoing contract provides for the transfer of 5100 such products, and during April...