Weapon 2024, November

Tell me, how often did you have to disassemble the AK bolt to clean the drummer? The truth has already become commonplace that the M16 bolt group consists of small parts that are easy to lose during cleaning, so we will not dwell on it, but the principle of "hung" parts is worth talking more

I was asked to tell how the American soldiers dropped their rifles. Please, on July 4, 2008, an American helicopter shot 17 residents from a village in the Afghan province of Vanat. Several doctors and nurses at the local clinic were killed. In response, on Black Sunday July 13, 2008, checkpoint

In experienced hands, the M-16 will never plunge into the mud, even if the shooter finds himself in it at the very top, never sips water and will always be cleaned and oiled. Peter J. Kokalis: As you know, all NATO fighters have experienced hands, high culture and at least one higher technical education

Unlike many other designs, the Kalashnikov assault rifle does not pre-shift the sleeve when the bolt is turned. Because of this … an extremely large ejector hook is required. Peter J. Kokalis. After firing at the initial stage of the recoil of the bolt carrier, the bolt continued to remain

Even the most stubborn adherents of the AR-15 will not dispute that the Kalashnikov assault rifle has set the highest level of reliability. Therefore, there are a lot of videos on the network in which various combinations of Stoner's alterations are smeared with mud, sprinkled with sand or dipped in water, after which the testers with a proud look

The AK and M16 use the same principle of automatic operation - the removal of powder gases and the method of locking the shutter by turning it. This is where their similarity ends. First, let's take a look at the cartridges. Note the wider ejector hook groove and shorter liner length

The dawn of the rising sun of American weapons thought over the jungle of Vietnam was overshadowed by a large number of its own losses due to rifle failures. No matter what they say now about the gunpowder of the wrong system, about the non-chrome-plated chamber, the lack of training of soldiers in the rules of caring for a new rifle, all this

Comparison of Russian and American assault rifles through the eyes of an American soldier: "This weapon seemed to everyone a kind of sling and bow of primitive savages, it was so simply arranged and decorated …" Joe Mantegna, host of the OUTDOR TV channel, about rifle

Logically, it would be worth starting with a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the Soviet 5.45x39 and American 5.56x45 cartridges, but this is a separate topic, so I will confine myself to a statement of fact. Domestic is weaker in power when flying out of the barrel, but this is not its drawback. On the contrary, less power

More than two hundred years ago, a simple Russian generalissimo, in his work "Science to Win", expressed a simple and capacious idea: "Shoot rarely, but accurately." Much later, one genius American general rediscovered this idea by counting the number of bullets fired and the number of enemies defeated

“The population of the city treated the prisoners differently. Some felt sorry for them and even fed them, others, having lost loved ones in the war, hated them. There were cases of beatings of the Germans. " © Sergey Selivanovsky, "The Germans in Izhevsk."

Dimka Okhotnikov for his birthday. “How difficult it is, Venichka, how subtle it is!” “Of course!” “What clarity of thinking! And that's all ?! Erofeev, Moscow - Petushki In love psychiatry, the phenomenon is known when an object of adoration is endowed with some positive qualities or supernatural properties

Part nine. The fun begins: The theater begins with the hanger, the weapon begins with the cartridge. This simple truth is forgotten or not known by the majority of "historians" such as A. Ruchko. The history of the German Sturmgewer began in 1923 with the release of a memorandum of the German Arms Inspectorate, in

“This is the finale ?!” “This is a very bright finale!” “But this is a remake of the old!” “Shakespeare also reworked old plots!” “Do you want the Hamburg account ?! article. In addition, it will be useful for those who can no longer read long

Part four. How the Schmeisser brothers raided Herr Hähnel's firm World War I ended. In the distant Altai region, in the family of the Russian peasant Timofey Aleksandrovich Kalashnikov, the 17th child was born, who was named Misha, and descended into the military industry of Germany

It seems that the play called "ak-12" is approaching its natural ending. After boasting statements about fifth generation weapons and their superhuman capabilities, the good old AK-74 was presented to the world at the Army-2016 exhibition with minor modifications, which, perhaps, will add

“Without vibrations, access to astral projection becomes more difficult.” The wisdom of an Indian yogi What determines accuracy - one of the main characteristics of a weapon? Obviously, from the quality of the barrel and cartridge. Let's postpone the cartridge for now, but consider the physics of the process. Take a metal rod or

Automatic rifle Simonov AVS-36 (USSR) The Red Army began the first tests of self-loading rifles back in 1926, but until the mid-thirties, none of the tested samples met the army requirements. Sergey Simonov began developing a self-loading rifle at the beginning

What a modern sniper should look like (part 1) Experimental models As mentioned above, in addition to the characteristics of the "cartridge-weapon" complex, the magnitude of the dispersion of bullets is significantly influenced by shooting errors, among which the most significant are errors in the definition

TrackingPoint has developed a sniper system that will minimize the shooter's mistakes. Even a beginner can hit the target with this smart electronic system and is very easy to use. Before opening fire, the shooter marks the target by pressing the button on the trigger

In the previous article on multiply charged hand grenade launchers, we got acquainted with domestic products. It would be quite reasonable to go over the foreign models of this class of weapons, so that there is something to compare with and have a general idea of what possible opponents or allies are armed with. Begin

Modern models of hand-held firearms very rarely can boast of something fundamentally new in their design, basically these are the same type of product, the characteristics of which differ only due to the quality of production when using the same ammunition. Of course no one

In one of the previous articles, revolving hand grenade launchers were considered. This subclass of weapons turned out to be not so large-scale, which is easily explained by the dimensions and weight, which impose some restrictions on constant carrying. These disadvantages completely overlap the simplicity

Our author tried to solve an incredibly difficult problem in the arms business - to create a power supply system of increased capacity for light machine guns, / while keeping the weight of the shooting systems within reasonable limits

More recently, on the well-known American Internet resource Guns To Carry, an article appeared with the title "The best pistols of 2018 of 9 mm caliber". The title of the collection is at least interesting, but given the sad experience of reading similar materials, the first question is

Among hand-held firearms, you can often find designs that do not always fit into the framework we are accustomed to. In an attempt to achieve higher characteristics from the product or to make it more convenient to use, designers are introducing both old and

Revolving hand grenade launchers have long established themselves as effective and relatively compact weapons. Of course, such a device cannot be hidden in your pocket, and with ammunition it weighs not at all like a feather. But everything is learned in comparison, and the possibility at a sufficiently large distance with

Switzerland has always been and remains a country that is associated with the high quality of manufactured mechanisms on its territory. Regardless of what exactly Swiss designers are designing, watches or weapons, you can be sure that the development of each unit was approached with a special

If you go to the site of any more or less well-known manufacturer of weapons, then in the catalog of the offered products you can find a lot of a wide variety of models for every taste and color. The Steyr catalog cannot boast of such a variety of weapons. Strictly speaking, the title of the article is not

It is no secret that, in addition to the well-known types of weapons that are accepted into service in the army and law enforcement agencies, there are still a lot of little-known, and sometimes completely forgotten models. Conducting all kinds of competitions, the purpose of which was to adopt one or another

Due to the fact that the domestic ASh-12 assault rifle will be offered on the foreign market, it will not be superfluous to look at this weapon again, evaluate its positive and negative aspects, and also clarify certain points that relate to ammunition. and

In the comments under one of the articles, they suggested describing a pistol that, in my opinion, would be ideal. Despite the fact that perfection simply cannot be achieved, I will try to dream up on this topic, or rather to compile those solutions that were used in individual models of weapons, and which

At the end of last year, the news that the Polish army had adopted a new GROT assault rifle passed completely unnoticed. This news is interesting for several reasons at once. First, these weapons fully comply with the smallest and not always reasonable NATO standards. Secondly

The Kalashnikov assault rifle has long been in service with many countries, in one form or another, it was also used in the Warsaw Pact countries. In the process of the collapse of the Soviet Union, many abandoned these weapons in favor of foreign models or their own designs, but there were also those

In the previous articles about Ukrainian experimental weapons, you can get acquainted with pistols, submachine guns and machine guns, thus, we have come to another class of weapons, namely sniper rifles. In my opinion, these developments are the most interesting, since each sample is different from

The concept of a single machine gun originated at the end of the First World War. The course of hostilities showed that it is quite justified to use the same design, with minimal changes, both as a light machine gun and for installation on armored vehicles, to be used in aviation, in twin anti-aircraft installations

In the previous article about Ukrainian developments in the field of hand-held firearms, you can get acquainted with such pistols as PSh and "Gnome". A weapon in which, after a few years, there appeared, if not analogs, then, very similar in design, the development of a common concept in the West. In this article

The revolvers of the Korth company are one of the most famous on the market, they stand out primarily for their quality and price, which is far from being as democratic as that of many other manufacturers. The price, as already mentioned above, is due to the quality, and, accordingly, to the high characteristics

In the process of wandering around the sites of weapons-related topics, I came across a relatively fresh new "top" from the American expert Charlie Gao. Visitors to the Military Review already know Citizen Gao from the translation of the article "Five Types of Weapons Dangerous to the Shooters themselves." This time the expert

Submachine guns, which were developed in Ukraine immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, unlike pistols, cannot boast of "exotic" solutions in their designs, however, they are quite interesting to familiarize yourself with. Despite the fact that in specialized publications about this