It turns out that Africans made homemade firearms, and not only made them, but also actively used them in battles against the British back in the middle of the last century....

The first samples of submachine guns that appeared during the First World War, both in Italy and in Austria-Hungary, were ... “not very intelligible.” It sounded louder, more weighty and more significant in Germany...

During the war, aviation turret machine guns DA and DA-2 were mainly used in anti-aircraft installations to combat enemy aircraft operating at low altitude...

The history and design of the Remington rifle...

For the method of loading a weapon from the muzzle, pouring gunpowder into it and placing a bullet in it, we are unlikely to find an author known to mankind. His name, like the name of the inventor of the wheel, has long ago sunk into oblivion....

During the current Special Operation, the Russian army is using the entire range of available anti-tank systems. In particular, the Metis-M1 product is actively used, which still retains high potential....

In an effort to further simplify the design of the cartridge feeding mechanism, Mannlicher decided to use gravity to feed cartridges and designed a magazine located above the bolt, for which...

Over the course of many years of service, legendary rifles of the 20th century often went through various alterations and modernizations, sometimes quite unusual. And in this article we will look at the history of one of the most unusual...

The very first Mannlicher rifles were not accepted for service and did not go into mass production, but their design speaks of the remarkable intelligence of this designer and...

It often happened that the development of firearms and, in particular, the same rifles, was influenced by factors of a natural geographical nature. For example, the so-called Little Ice Age...

Russian snipers participating in the Special Operation actively use Lobaev Arms rifles. Weapons of several models allow them to hit various targets with high accuracy in a wide range...

Since last year, the Moscow Arms Company has been producing high-precision sniper systems in the Raptor line. Several rifles of this family were previously presented, and recently...

A thing created by a talented person, made skillfully and even with love, but for certain tasks and conditions, finding itself in radically different, specific circumstances, behaves...

It just so happened that in Belgium no one produced weapons. In Liege there were entire streets of gunsmiths. Moreover, some specialized only in locks, others made only barrels, and still others...

The Russian army has begun to receive serial microwave sniper rifles. It is expected that such weapons in the future will replace the well-deserved, but old SVD, and will also give our snipers new opportunities....

In the English army, equipped with the Brown Bess musket, and then in others, it became fashionable to drive the bullet into the barrel by hitting the butt on the ground, without using a cleaning rod. However, this method was not suitable for...

The Kalashnikov Concern begins supplying the latest microwave sniper rifles. The first batch of mass-produced products has been accepted by the customer and will soon be delivered to Russian army units....

This ammunition leaves no chance for all living things in rooms with a volume of up to 300 cubic meters...

Our story will be about the rarities of the era of cartridges, when gunsmith designers tried with all their might to make a pistol shoot not just once, but... many, just like a revolver!...

The desire of designers to create a portable weapon capable of firing several times in a row and at the same time devoid of a protruding magazine in the form of a rotating drum was already embodied in the 50s of the XIX century...

In the middle of the XNUMXth century, weapons produced at Czechoslovak factories could rightly be considered among the most advanced models in the whole world...

We have two letters H and J up next, and for each of them there is something to show. Although even Belgian weapons historians know nothing about some samples. But then there are the revolvers and pistols themselves....

The influence of the StG 44 on post-war armament was quite varied, as evidenced by Mikhail Kalashnikov's AK-47 and later Eugene Stoner's M16 and their variants. The main borrowing was not...

This interesting pistol design is often erroneously referred to as the "Manlicher Model 1903" as this is the year it was introduced to the European gun market....