At the arms exhibition in Paris, the Israeli firm IWI will present several new modifications of their Tavor, X95 and Galil assault rifles. Among other things, the company will present a new 40 mm grenade launcher ....

This weapon was developed specifically for the 7.92x57 Mauser ammunition for the main customer - China. The serial production of the rifle was adjusted to the 1939 year. There have been attempts to use a rifle for different ...

At the end of World War I, the German command, led by General von Sect, attempted to turn the 100-thousandth Reichswehr, permitted by the Versailles Treaty, into a base for ...

The development of a single MAG machine gun (Mitrailleuse a Gas - “gas system machine gun”, another option - Mitrailleuse d'Appui General - “general purpose machine gun”) began in the early 50s...

When the legislation of any country allows more or less free circulation of small arms among the population, manufacturers thereof will begin to offer a variety of ideas. Among them are ...

The firm "Steyr" (later "Steyr-Daimler-Pooh"), in close cooperation with the Austrian army, developed the StG-77 assault rifle. In 1978, the first batches of this rifle entered the troops ....

The French, who at the time of the First World War were armed with a not-too-good Shosh machine gun, already in 1920 began the development of a new light machine gun. The main problem was ...

NPO "Izhmash" is going to develop a modification of the new Kalashnikov AK-12 assault rifle, which will most closely correspond to the special forces units. According to the company's press service, a sample ...

Vickers developed a Vickers .50 machineglass of 12,7 millimeters on the basis of its own easel machine gun. The 12,7 mm cartridge was loaded with 35,64 and 37,03 gram bullets ....

The British Army was interested not only in the Czech manual machine gun, but also in the Z.V.-53 machine gun of the V. Holek and M. Roller system, proposed by Xbruevka Brno in 1935. British ...

When in June 40 of the year the British carried out a hasty evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, they were forced to leave the enemy with the most up-to-date weapons that the British army only had. Until...

Back in 1908, a light machine gun was introduced by French officer Berthie (Berthie), which has an automatics gas engine, locking the barrel bore with the help of a swinging larva, continuous and ...

Since the only supplier of light machine guns was the Royal Small Arms plant, and Enfield Lock was located close to London, which was subjected to German bombardment, Birmingham Small ...

For almost a hundred years, the machine guns of the British army consisted of foreign systems that were produced in the country. The same applies to the Bran machine gun. Still in the middle of 20's ...

This information on the CB-1367 rifle, taken from the Internet, however, all sources represent the Vykhlop rifle in the photo. Proceeding from this and from the name of the rifle “CB-1367” we find in the list ...

The combat rate of fire of BAR machine guns was not satisfactory; effective fire support did not work with the combination of fire of heavy machine guns and manual squads. According to the Infantry Committee ...

The variant of the machine gun having air cooling appeared at the end of the First World War as an aviation Ml918. On its basis were created tank and aircraft machine guns M1919. These machine guns ...

The J. B Browning Automatic Rifle (Browning Automatic Rifle) was created in 1917 year. While working on an automatic rifle, the designer evaluated the experience of the First World War ...

The captain of the United States Marine Corps stockpile, Melvin Maynard Johnson, developed his light machine gun at the end of the 30s. The basis was taken self-loading ...

After the occupation of Czechoslovakia, the German Wehrmacht managed to significantly increase the saturation of the troops with automatic weapons. Wehrmacht got 43876 various machine guns. German Infantry Division ...

In the 1930, among the modernized artillery and rifle systems, the Maxim machine gun of the 1910 / 30 model was adopted. The main reason for the modernization was the adoption of a cartridge with a heavy bullet ...

From the very moment of the appearance of firearms, its creators tried to increase the rate of fire. Until a certain time, this could be done only by a relatively complicated method of increasing ...

Since Austria-Hungary could not achieve reliable operation of the Skoda machine guns, the army adopted a machine gun designed by German designer Andreas Wilhelm Schwarzlose (Swarzlose). Him...

With the start in 1925 of the year of work on a machine gun having an 12-20 caliber of millimeters, it was decided to create it on the basis of a magazine-powered light machine gun in order to reduce the mass of the machine gun being created. Works ...