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2025-06-01 06:06

It is no secret that for many Soviet officers it was very prestigious to own a captured pistol. Most often, German short-barreled weapons could be at the disposal of the infantry commanders of the platoon-battalion level and the military personnel of the reconnaissance units. That is, those who

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A rare photo - two identical Russian warships of non-Soviet construction together. But that should stop being rare. Photo: defenceimagery.mod.uk Having decided on the principles that should underlie the sane shipbuilding policy of Russia, you need to subject them at least

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The High-Precision Complexes holding (part of the Rostec state corporation) was formed in 2009. Judging by the brand's popularity in Russia and abroad, the consolidation of the scientific and technical potential of specialized enterprises was successful. Not every integrated structure can boast

2025-06-01 06:06

About spilled blood - as a general to a general In February 2021, shortly before the next anniversary of the armed conflict on Damansky Island, a very lengthy and, to put it mildly, somewhat strange material was published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta. It was a big interview with a retired major general

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In the minds of the majority of Europeans, and even the citizens of Russia, the expanses of Southern Siberia, Altai, Mongolia, Northern and Central China have always been an area of settlement for the peoples of the Mongoloid race, but this is far from the case. Already in 3000 BC, Southern Siberia was inhabited by the clans of the Indo-European

Small arms at all times have been and remain the main destructive force. Not only the outcome of a particular battle, but also of the entire military campaign largely depends on how well the soldiers of motorized rifle units are armed. The Russian army became the heir not only of the ideas and symbols of the Soviet

One of the main directions for the development and improvement of special intelligence remains to increase the combat readiness of formations and military units, equip them with reconnaissance equipment and special weapons. Over 60 years of history of special forces for arming and equipping units and formations

According to ArmyTimes, in May 2011, the US Army will announce a tender for the development and supply of new assault rifles. In the future, they will be used by the military along with the upgraded M4A1. This competition is expected to run for three years. According to the results of the tender, the winner should be

In Soviet Russia, after 1931, sniper weapons were developed mainly on the basis of self-loading rifles, sniper versions of such rifles as: Degtyarev self-loading rifles (arr. 1930), Rukavishnikov (arr. 1938), Tokarev (SVT- 40), automatic rifle

This weapon was created in the 30s of the last century in Nazi Germany. Since the area of use of the pistol buckle was very limited, quite a few of them were released. The whole thing works very simply. There are two types of pistol buckles - double-barreled and four-barreled (7.65 and 5.6

If you ask any soldier who served in the Soviet (Russian) army what a conventional army weapon should be, he will either not understand the question, or he will describe the device of a Kalashnikov assault rifle - a hard barrel of a certain length with an awesome front sight, a stock for shooting from the hand, a magazine chambered for

The American Military Channel has compiled a rating of the best examples of small arms created in the twentieth century. Each model was evaluated by military experts for accuracy of fire, combat effectiveness, originality of design, ease of use and reliability. The first place was taken by the legendary AK-47

Recently, more and more controversies have flared up around the statement of the Minister of Defense of Russia Anatoly Serdyukov, who made claims to domestic small arms, in particular to the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifle and Dragunov sniper rifle. In the opinion of the minister, this weapon is

The Mauser C-96 (Mauser K-96) is a legendary weapon, a heavy, powerful pistol developed by the Mauser brothers. Brothers Wilhelm and Paul Peter (left) Mauser The pistol was developed in 1893 by the Federle brothers, who worked in the arms factory for the other Mauser brothers. They have two more years

I would like to bring to your attention a very unusual sample with a rather curious history .. The preamble is as follows: Product name - "GRAD". The ammunition used - 6x49. The store is box-shaped, sector, for 30 rounds, in design and architecture, completely similar to metal

The sniper detection device is only four inches in size, developed in Britain. British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan received a revolutionary new device for testing, capable of determining the exact position of enemy snipers at a distance of 1000 yards (900 m). Tiny

In the late 1980s, while the Klimov designers were working on the small-sized machine CP-3 "Whirlwind", the Tula gunsmiths from the Instrument-Making Design Bureau (KBP) began working on an alternative version - the 9A-91 machine gun. In the West, the small-sized weapon received the designation PDW

Scramasax is a combat knife with one-sided sharpening and, as a rule, an asymmetrical shank. Scramasax is a term covering a wide variety of knife varieties, from small table knives to large combat knives. For simplicity, we will use the term scramasax, only to refer to weapons

7.62x51 mm Accuracy International Arctic Warfare (AI AW 7.62) sniper rifleIn the early 1980s, the British Army announced a competition to replace the aging Enfield L42 sniper rifles. The main participants of the competition were the English companies Parker-Hale with a rifle "model

In 2003, the Scientific and Technical Center for Precision Engineering of the National Space Agency of Ukraine presented the Vepr assault rifle (Vepr - Russian). The automaton was created as a modernization of the AK-74 assault rifle and was made according to the bullpup scheme. "Vepr" is positioned as a replacement for those in service

The rifle is made in a bullpup layout according to the scheme of L.V. Bondarev on the basis of TsKIB SOO (KBP branch). In the manufacture of the rifle, the experience of developing an IED was taken into account and a number of its design solutions were used. The main original feature of the OTs-44 is the forward movement of the barrel for reloading (a similar scheme

The author of these lines has already described in detail about domestic sniper weapons in the book "Laws of Sniper War". Nevertheless, it makes sense to dwell briefly on the most interesting and new systems. About the self-loading rifle of the E.F. Dragunov - SVD system in recent years it has been written

Developed at the end of World War II by S.G. Simonov, the creator of the 7.62-mm automatic self-loading rifle ABC mod. 1936 and a 14.5-mm self-loading anti-tank rifle PTRS arr. 1941 After the final revision and elimination of all the shortcomings identified during all kinds of tests

In the fifties, in connection with the rearmament of our army, the designers were given the task of creating a self-loading sniper rifle. Yevgeny Fedorovich Dragunov, already well-known by that time the inventor of a number of models of a sports rifle, also joined in this work. Several

The submachine gun PP-19-01 "Vityaz" is used to arm the patrol and guard services, traffic police and internal security. The submachine gun was developed by the IZHMASH Concern OJSC arms enterprise in accordance with the requirements of the Vityaz detachment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, according to which it got its name. On