Weapon 2024, November

Almost from the very beginning of the appearance of firearms, designers in many countries of the world tried to achieve an increase in its rate of fire. The advantages of massive fire quickly became clear to the military in all countries. For a long time, the only way to increase the rate of fire of a weapon was

The USSR in the second half of the 20th century was distinguished by a developed defense industry and a large number of successful developments in all segments, including in the field of small arms. Some considered the existing line of army small arms to be perfect. It wasn't just about the good

Already at the beginning of the last century, the leading armies of the world began to receive the first samples of self-loading pistols into service. However, in the Russian imperial army, things were not as good as many would like. In service, there was still a reliable, but archaic seven-shot revolver

Compact and rapid-fire weapons are in demand today in many countries of the world. Often light and compact submachine guns are in service with special forces units, and are also widely used by special services and companies that are responsible for the safety of top officials of the state

The Israeli Uzi submachine gun is now a recognizable brand in the global small arms market. The weapon is known to a wide circle of ordinary people, who are not even fond of this area, and absolutely definitely in recognition can compete with the Kalashnikov assault rifle and the American M16 rifle and their

There are three cities on the map of Russia that can be called the capitals of small arms: Tula, Izhevsk and Kovrov. At the very beginning of 1940, another center was added to them - Vyatskiye Polyany, a small town in the Kirov region. Today the enterprise Hammer Oruzhie LLC is located here, which

In the 1960s, the American Eugene Stoner introduced a revolutionary weapon at that time - a modular shooting complex known as the Stoner 63. The presented weapon with interchangeable elements combined the properties of an assault rifle and a machine gun. Armed with a novelty

The story about the most famous large-caliber sniper rifles of our time would be incomplete without the Swiss development of the OM 50 Nemesis. This model was created in the early 2000s and was mass-produced by the large Swiss defense company Advanced Military System Design (A.M.S.D.)

At the ARMS & Hunting 2017 exhibition, which took place in Moscow on October 12-15 last year, a new product from the ORSIS company was presented - the ORSIS F-17 high-precision multi-caliber rifle for sport shooting and hunting; in the future, this rifle can be offered to various power

Polish designer-gunsmith Alexander Lezhukha, together with his team of like-minded people, became famous for a variety of sniper rifles, which he creates while working at a large arms company ZM Tarnow. To date, he has already received sufficient fame, since the

The idea of converting pistols and revolvers into carbines is not new and was encountered even in the 19th century. In the XXI century, the idea of creating pistols-carbines has not yet been abandoned. At the same time, modern technologies and industrial development make it possible to produce a special "body kit" for popular models of pistols

The American company Barrett Firearms is primarily famous and known for its excellent M82 large-caliber anti-material rifle. However, the company's work is not limited to the creation of only high-precision weapons for snipers. No less interesting developments are lightweight

The Austrian large-caliber sniper rifle Steyr HS .50 is not only a very famous model in the arms world, but also one of the most accurate rifles on the market today. The rifle is manufactured by the eponymous company Steyr Mannlicher Gmbh & Co KG. Worldwide

Famous large-caliber sniper rifles include the Hungarian Gepard M1 rifle. It was developed in the late 1980s and was a single-shot model of a sniper weapon chambered for the Soviet 12.7x108 mm cartridge. By its design, it strongly resembled

The Russian large-caliber sniper rifle OSV-96 "Cracker" is a fairly well-known example of small arms. OSV-96 became the first Russian weapon of this class and is a kind of response to the American Barret M82 rifle. Unlike American sniper

Sniper rifles are relatively new to the battlefield. This weapon, equipped with optical sights, began to play an important role in hostilities since the First World War. During the war, Germany supplied hunting rifles with optical sights, they

The PPSh-41 submachine gun is not just a well-known (at least externally) submachine gun of the Second World War, which habitually complements the common images of a Belarusian partisan or a Red Army soldier. Let's put it another way - in order for all this to be so, it was necessary in due time to solve a number of very serious problems

In the previous article on anti-tank guns, one could get acquainted with the PTR, created in the UK and bearing the name of the head of the weapons project. It's about the Boys anti-tank rifle. But this is far from the first PTR, and it is precisely those models that are of a kind that are of particular interest

The history of the Walther P.38 pistol began with the 9 mm Walther MP of the first model. The P.38 is still not visible in this pistol, it is very similar to the enlarged Walther PP. To the secret work of designing service (as they tried to disguise this new weapon) pistols of a new generation

The Walther P.38 pistol is one of those pistols that have gone down in history and are recognizable even by those people who are not interested in firearms. This pistol not only went through the entire Second World War, but was also used for a long time after its end. Walther P. 38 has both

The German infantry was the first to face the tanks. The appearance of tracked armored monsters on the battlefield shocked the German troops. On September 15, 1916, 18 British Mark I tanks during the Battle of the Somme managed to break through the German defenses 5 km wide and advance 5

By the mid-70s, the anti-tank weapons available in the British army, designed to arm individual shooters, in many ways did not meet modern requirements and could not effectively deal with Soviet tanks. Individual anti-tank weapons at disposal

In the 70s of the last century, the American infantry units of the "company-battalion" link were saturated with Dragon and TOW anti-tank missile systems. ATGM "Dragon" had a record small weight and dimensions for its time, could be transported and used by one person. At the same time, this

The British Army entered World War II with anti-tank weapons that no longer met modern requirements. In connection with the loss in May 1940 of a significant part (more than 800 units) of 40-mm anti-tank guns QF 2 pounder, the situation on the eve of a possible German invasion of

In the post-war period, the anti-tank weapons of the British infantry underwent a total revision. Anti-tank hand grenades, bottle launchers and stock mortars were written off and disposed of without any regret. After the PIAT anti-tank grenade launcher was decommissioned in the mid-50s, its place in

Thanks to the successes achieved in the field of miniaturization of semiconductor elements and the improvement of semi-automatic guidance systems, about a decade and a half after the end of World War II, it was possible to create fairly compact anti-tank guided missile systems

In the second half of the 60s, Soviet motorized riflemen had at their disposal fairly effective anti-tank defense means. Each rifle squad included a grenade launcher with an RPG-2 or RPG-7. The battalion's anti-tank defense was provided by the calculations of the SPG-9 and

In the first post-war decade, the anti-tank divisions of the ground forces were armed with 57-mm ZIS-2, 85-mm D-44 and 100-mm BS-3 guns. In 1955, in connection with the increase in the thickness of the armor of the tanks of a potential enemy, 85-mm D-48 guns began to arrive in the troops. The design of the new gun included

Almost immediately after the appearance of tanks on the battlefield, artillery became the main means of fighting them. At first, medium-caliber field guns were used to fire at tanks, but already at the end of the First World War, specialized anti-tank artillery systems were created. In the 30s

In the postwar years, the Soviet Union continued to improve the means of fighting the air enemy. Before the mass adoption of anti-aircraft missile systems, this task was assigned to fighter aircraft, anti-aircraft machine gun and artillery installations

In the summer of 1942, in the village of Bilimbay, a group of engineers from an aircraft plant evacuated from Moscow tried (privately) to find a means of significantly increasing muzzle velocities and, consequently, armor-piercing of bullets and shells. These engineers graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, knew

The PP-2000 submachine gun was developed by the Tula gunsmiths in 2001 and is intended for anti-terror units. The PP-2000 submachine gun was developed personally by the head of the direction of automatic small arms and cannon armament of the Tula State Unitary Enterprise "Design

Before continuing, I would like to answer two thoughts that are often mentioned in the comments. The first one is about too strong a spring in PYa or GSh stores. Usually, with this unkind, and sometimes insulting word, they mention the designers, through whose fault they allegedly have an increased

If a bear has stepped on your ear … The anniversary of the outstanding designer, citizen and patriot of the Fatherland, Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, is approaching. It so happened that during the period of mastering the production of his machine at the Izhevsk Motorcycle Plant, and then at the "Izhmash" in Izhevsk, there were German technical

In December last year, tests were to be completed, according to the results of which a decision was expected in favor of one of the samples (PYa, PL or "Boa") for the Ministry of Defense and RG on the topic "Cayman" and "Lynx". This is the only reliable information to date that can be trusted. Who conducted

Thoughts aloud by a sambist and a system specialist. To make it difficult for him to aim, I continuously “rocked the pendulum”: I danced with my left shoulder forward, jerking my body from side to side and all the time moving myself - something similar, only simpler, is done by a boxer in the ring. (With ) V.O. Bogomolov. "V

Stamp 3. Due to the innate (innate, inherent, etc.) technological backwardness of the Soviet industry, it was not possible to master the production of stamped receiver boxes, which is why they had to be made by milling from forgings, which led to a monstrous consumption of metal. If we talk about

Actually, we will start with the stamps, but not with those that are the matrix-punch. Let's start with the mental clichés that can often be heard in the form of statements about one reason or another. Most often they carry false information, since either they were created on the basis of speculation due to lack of information or

Not so long ago, lenta.ru was born with another masterpiece on small arms and weapons called "American experience and Russian machine guns." In all the articles of the Ribbon on this topic, domestic weapons are assigned a second role, but the leading one in technology, in promising developments, and now experience

The receiver, figuratively speaking, housed the heart of the weapon - its automation, which ensured the reliability of its operation. Kalashnikov. “Gunsmith's Notes” In the production of Stg-44, low-carbon, relatively thin steel with a thickness of 0.8-0.9 mm was used. Hence the great