Weapon 2024, November

Knives that can fire several shots are quite specific weapons. Very rarely, designers manage to maintain a balance between a comfortable knife and a more or less effective device for firing a shot. Despite all the controversy, and sometimes well-founded arguments about

Not a single exhibition of weapons is complete without a sample that makes you smile with its originality. The current exhibition in Las Vegas, Shot SHOW 2018, was no exception. FD Munitions demonstrated its view on the issue of caseless ammunition, showing not only a new cartridge, but also

In the article about the Warren Evans rifle, we got acquainted with one of the first options for implementing a screw magazine. The modern development of the idea can be traced to the Calico M960 and Bison submachine guns, previously there was material about the Chinese submachine gun with a Chang Feng screw magazine. In this

The end of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th century was indeed a very interesting time: progress not only did not stand still, but ran forward with leaps and bounds. New technologies, scientific discoveries, the search for more advanced materials - all this could not but affect firearms, which for some

It is quite funny to watch, when watching not the most low-budget films, how the main character under cover of night in complete silence exterminates his enemies one by one with the help of a revolver with a silent firing device attached to it. Of course, the revolver is not at all the one that was developed

Among all the variety of Shot SHOW 2018, one cannot pass by the new pistol from Smith & Wesson. The pistol stands out not only for its appearance, but also for the ammunition that is used in it, with the full size of the weapon. The fact is that previously chambered for .380 Auto

When it comes to products made in China, most domestic people immediately start thinking about cheap, low-quality products that are copies of products from other manufacturers. However, the time when the Chinese only copied and saved on everything, apparently

Attempts to combine firearms with cold ones began, probably, when the first primitive pistol had just appeared. It is difficult to say whether these attempts were successful, since as a result of such symbiosis, it was very rarely possible to make the firearm part complete and good

At SHOT Show 2018, arms company Kel-Tec showcased a self-loading bullpup rifle with a claim to being a survival weapon. The rifle itself did not appear from scratch; it was based on the company's previous developments, in particular the RDB and RDB-C rifles. Since materials

In the process of searching for interesting materials for new articles, sometimes you come across articles or videos about weapons that are well-known, but of little interest in their design. This is how a video was discovered about Maroshek's anti-tank rifle, better known as the Wz.35. The video confused a lot, but more

Even before the start of one of the largest exhibitions of weapons and equipment SHOT Show in Las Vegas, many manufacturers announced their new products. The Brazilian company Taurus was no exception, which added a new revolver model to its catalog. A notable feature of this weapon is that

Another interesting novelty pleased the American division of IWI, which demonstrated on January 17 this year its new development - a self-loading rifle in a bullpup layout with a total capacity of three integral tubular magazines of 15 rounds. This is not to say that this weapon

The number of different variants of hand-held firearms is striking in its diversity, and the more you start to learn about different interesting and unusual designs, the stronger the understanding becomes that there is simply a huge amount of unusual and experimental weapons and it is easy to cover everything

A shortened version of a gun, popularly a "sawn-off", is no longer surprising, they are now made even in the factory from well-known models of weapons. Even our compatriots had the opportunity to quite legitimately look at the semblance of weapons in this format using an example, excuse the French

The desire of designers to make weapons compact, while not losing in combat and operational characteristics, sometimes gives rise to real masterpieces. True, only other designers can appreciate such samples at their true worth, neither the military nor law enforcement agencies are unusual and complex

In one of the previous articles, there was a mention of the John Hill submachine gun, as the predecessor of the rather well-known development of the Fabrique Nationale P90. Of course, we are not talking about the fact that FN copied the design of the weapon from Hill, but you can clearly trace the similarity of the very idea of placement

In the past few years, there have been few new handguns that can be called really interesting. However, even among them, you can find something that is really worthy of attention. On November 23, at the Milipol exhibition in Paris, the Italian company Beretta Defense Technologies

While some designers are trying their best to perfect the existing models of hand-held firearms, others are creating new and not quite ordinary weapons. I propose to deviate a little from the usual layouts and systems of modern assault rifles, pistols and other things and get acquainted with the result

Among the novelties of hand-held firearms, one can often find at first glance not at all new samples that could have been missed without focusing on them, since all solutions in them are standard and have already been used often. But sometimes these weapons have their own unique appearance

In the late 1990s, the designer of the Tula TsKIB SOO A. B. Adov developed an experimental self-loading sniper rifle TKB-0145K chambered for 6x49 mm. The TKB-0145K sniper rifle is designed to destroy single targets (including those protected by individual

For most people who are interested in weapons, the mention of Barrett sniper rifles gives rise to the image of large bore sniper rifles. However, not only with a caliber of more than 9 millimeters, this company makes its own bread and butter. So, the company produces machine guns

Since the appearance of Glock pistols, only the lazy has not released their own version of a weapon with a similar design. The efforts of the designers of various arms companies in recent years are especially noticeable. However, so far none of the pistols has received such distribution as the Austrian Glock

Over time, a large number of schools and styles of tsubako masters appeared in Japan, various techniques were developed, popular subjects appeared, and, of course, the story of tsuba would be incomplete without mentioning this. , the oldest technique

“… Military armor and equipment, distinguished by ostentatious splendor, are considered evidence of the weakness and uncertainty of their owner. They allow you to look into the heart of the one who wears them.”Yamamoto Tsunetomo. "Hagakure" - "Hidden under the leaves" - instruction for samurai (1716). Any story about

At the end of World War II, the United States was left with a monstrous amount of a variety of military equipment. The reduction of the army to the requirements of peacetime led to the release of the material part, which had to be put somewhere. The army sold or simply gave away property

Individual long-barreled small arms with a rifled barrel are the main weapon of a soldier in any army. The American television channel "Discovery" again pleased the world with its next rating of weapons, according to the results of which the best rifle of the twentieth century was chosen. Despite some

How many rifles we have already looked through, and all remain those that have not yet been described. And the same can be said for countries. England, France, Czech Republic, Japan - well, it seems that all the rifles that were in service there were included in our series, but no. There remained a country like Romania, and she

The Latvian military is once again rearming - a contract worth 13 million euros has been signed for the purchase of assault rifles for the needs of the army, the civilian militia "Home Guard" and the State Border Guard. The German G36, according to the Baltic media, will be purchased from Heckler

As you know, in 1971 in the USSR, after three years of significant in terms of volume and intensity of searches, experiments and development of various designs carried out at the Central Scientific Research Institute of Precision Engineering (TsNIITOCHMASH), an underwater pistol complex was put into service in

The optical sights purchased by the Russian Ministry of Defense for Kalashnikov assault rifles and machine guns, due to a number of errors, deprive the shooter of the opportunity to conduct a fire duel - aimed shooting at the head target, and also have a low probability of hitting other targets

Instead of an epigraph, 1941, the defense of Moscow. “When I got there, I went down the wet steps into the basement of the command post." Oh, comrade Momysh-Uly, please … It was a familiar hoarse voice. I saw General Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov. "You, comrade Momysh-Uly, could hear how are we today?

The controversy in the media about the directions of development of our small arms does not stop. The "Military Review" recently published a landmark article "On conceptual uncertainty in the development of military small arms in the Russian Federation."

Automatic rifles with improved accuracy of fire are not in demand. Why? The AK-12 and A-545 (AEK-971) assault rifles undergoing state tests have an accuracy of fire 1.5-2 times better (less) than that of the AK-74, which is unconditionally considered an improvement. , the accuracy of the first two bullets

For a long time there has been talk about the need to replace the obsolete PM pistol. Back in the 80s, the development of a promising pistol on the Rook theme was started. Samples of weapons were created that met the requirements of the military. These were pistols SPS, GSh-18, PYa and modernized

Is the "Degtyar" so much outdated. It is generally accepted that the squad with MG-34 was "cooler" than the squad with the DP-27, it seemed to be correct - "Hitler's Circular" had a rate of fire of 800-900 rounds / min., sowing everything in its path, giving another reason for pride

Ethyl alcohol and war are practically inseparable things. In general, I dare to say that you cannot fight without ethyl alcohol, this is what this article is about. Ode to ethyl alcohol Ethyl alcohol gives a lot and can still give a lot, if you find the right approach to it. It's not

The newest addition to the Excelitas Qioptiq Merlin family is the LR2, which features a catadioptric (mirror lens) lens

The Meprolight Nyx 200 family of scopes also includes a daytime high-sensitivity camera for low illumination and an IR pointer. The most technologically advanced model is the Nyx 222. The Israeli company Meprolight has developed a multifunctional device Nyx-222, which combines

The need for larger calibers is one of the many trends driving the development of remotely controlled weapon module (RWM) technology. We will evaluate the latest developments currently available on the market and how manufacturers from different countries are responding to new needs

Any rifle, including one with an electronic drive, is a murder weapon. And the more perfect she is, the more effectively she carries out this very murder. The same bullet with a 5.45 mm caliber and a weight of 3.4 grams can be accelerated to 890 m / sec, and an armor-piercing bullet weighing 4.1 grams up to 840 m / sec. In previous