Weapon
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AKS-74U - 5.45-mm Kalashnikov assault rifle folding shortened (GRAU index - 6P26) - a shortened version of the widespread model AK-74. This version of the machine was developed in the Soviet Union in the late 1970s and early 1980s. First of all, the shortened version was intended for
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The debut of Chukavin's sniper rifle (abbreviated as SHF) took place at the last year's exhibition "Army-2017". It was in the Moscow region that the Kalashnikov concern presented its new weapon, which was immediately read as a replacement for the famous Dragunov sniper rifle (SVD). Interest in weapons has not disappeared
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Kampfpistole in translation from German combat pistol - a series of developments during the Second World War. Their essence was to create combat ammunition for flare pistols and alteration of flare pistols into a grenade launcher with special sights and butts. The characteristic feature was
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Conventional weapons can be created both for self-defense and in order to simply scare or stop the enemy. But silent weapons are always created solely for the purpose of killing. Two main methods aimed at combating the sound of a shot were invented and patented at the turn of the XIX - XX
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The appearance on the battlefield of tanks during the First World War launched the process of creating various anti-tank weapons. Including those that could be equipped with an ordinary infantryman. So soon enough, anti-tank guns and anti-tank grenades appeared. Already in the years of the Second
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The ORSIS-K15 "Brother" universal tactical self-loading carbine is one of the novelties of the Russian arms company ORSIS. The carbine was first presented to the public at the ARMS and Hunting 2017 arms exhibition in Moscow. Also in February 2018, the company held a presentation of the novelty in the ORSIS salon
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Within the framework of the Army-2018 international forum, the Kalashnikov concern presented to the general public a new prototype of the 7.62-mm assault rifle under the designation AK-308. The weapon is built on the basis of the AK-103 assault rifle with elements and units of the AK-12 assault rifle for the common cartridge of 7.62x51 mm
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Terrorist attacks, unprecedented in their brutality, rocked Russia in the early 2000s. The terrorist attacks that took place in the country forced the employees of special units to reconsider the tactics of their actions. Never before has any of the world's elite counter-terrorism squads
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The basics of the bayonet attack of the Russian soldier were taught in the days of Alexander Suvorov. Many people today are well aware of his phrase, which has become a proverb: "a bullet is a fool, a bayonet is a fine fellow." This phrase was first published in the military training manual prepared by the famous Russian
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In the race to replace the "old man" PM in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, another model of firearms is seriously involved. That the serial production of the newest Russian pistol for the needs of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which is intended to replace the Makarov pistol (PM), will begin in 2019
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In 1942, the Soviet weapons designer Alexei Ivanovich Sudaev developed a new weapon, which later many experts would call the best submachine gun of the Great Patriotic War. We are talking about 7.62-mm submachine guns of the Sudaev system of the 1942 and 1943 model
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The Russian arms industry produces a huge range of weapons for various purposes, including rather unusual samples. Such samples can be safely attributed to the OTs-62 revolver, which was designed by specialists of the Central Design Research Bureau
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In 2019, the great Russian arms designer Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov turns 100. This designer has gone down in history forever thanks to its machine gun, which is known all over the world today and is one of the symbols of modern automatic weapons. At the same time, it is naive
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In early January 2019, a modernized version of the Viking pistol, the Viking-M, was presented on the official website of Kalashnikov.Media, which belongs to the Kalashnikov concern. The pistol chambered for 9x19 mm, the Parabellum cartridge is a further development of the civilian line of the Yarygin pistol (PYa
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The arms designer Vladimir Grigorievich Fedorov entered Russian history as the creator of the first machine gun in history. Initially, a weapon chambered for a 6.5-mm caliber was called a "machine gun", the word "machine gun" familiar to all of us appeared later. At the front, new weapons appeared in December 1916
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The project of a civilian semi-automatic carbine "Sarych" chambered for .308 Win (a civilian analogue of the 7.62x51 NATO cartridge) is an example of a weapon that once every few years pops up on the Internet on various sites and attracts the interest of users. The model has never been produced and represents
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In the spring of 2019, the Czech company "Laugo Arms" announced the release of a new model of the 9-mm pistol, which received the unusual name "Alien". The pistol chambered for 9x19 mm is distinguished by a number of revolutionary solutions aimed at improving the accuracy of shooting. The first mentions of the pistol and
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American paratroopers have begun testing a new high-precision rifle CSASS, which should replace the M110 sniper rifles. Operational tests of the new high-precision rifle began in the US Airborne Forces. Tests are conducted in North Carolina on the territory
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In mid-July 2019, information appeared in the American press that the US Marine Corps would soon be armed with new Mk13 Mod 7 Long Range Sniper Rifle sniper rifles, which had reached operational usability. According to the official website of the Corps
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Soon, the American army will abandon the traditional M4 automatic carbines and M249 light machine guns in favor of new types of small arms. It is planned that the transfer of the ground forces and the Marine Corps to new models of small arms will begin as early as 2023. The main reason
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The old man AKS-74U, which has been in service since 1979, has been replaced. True, so far only in the videoconferencing. The shortened version of the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifle may be replaced by the 9-mm PP-2000 submachine gun, which was created by the specialists of the Tula Instrument Design Bureau. Arm
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At the military parade in Beijing on October 1, 2019, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the PRC, the Chinese military for the first time appeared before the public with a new machine gun. At the parade, soldiers of the Chinese People's Army were armed with classic QBZ-191 assault rifles. What the Chinese military has decided
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The US Marines will soon have at their disposal the new M101A1 semi-automatic sniper rifles, created under the CSASS (Compact Semi-Automatic Sniper System) program. These rifles were originally developed for a 7.62 mm caliber cartridge. Many American publications
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The US Army is gradually switching to the new M17 modular pistol, which will become the main short-barreled weapon for all units of the armed forces. The army pistol, developed as part of the Modular Handgun System program, is the first step towards a general modernization of small arms
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More recently, an unusual Chinese-made grenade launcher has attracted the attention of Western and Russian publications. We are talking about the Norinco LG5 automatic grenade launcher, which is exported in a 40-mm version. Just the other day, a grenade launcher, which is often called a sniper for the presence
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Very soon, production of a new microwave sniper rifle will begin in Russia, which will replace the legendary SVD, which has faithfully served in the ranks of the armed forces for more than 55 years. The new Chukavin sniper rifle, developed in Izhevsk by the engineers of the Kalashnikov concern, will be launched in
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Magazine magazine Madsen model 1947 The end of World War II marked the end of the era of infantry magazine rifles. All the more surprising was the Danes' attempt to jump into the last car of the departing train, which predictably ended in nothing. This happened for a number of objective reasons. At
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Today, many countries around the world have released their own pistols based on the classic "Glock". The Glock 17 with a polymer frame was the first such pistol with a striker trigger. Later, many pistols around the world began to be compared precisely with the brainchild of designer Gaston Glock, simply for the reason that
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Many people know almost nothing about small arms silencers. All their information in this matter is gleaned from numerous films and computer games. A silencer never completely suppresses the sound of a shot. The views of many ordinary people about such a device and its action are based on
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Continuing the theme of submachine guns in the modern system of domestic small arms, it is worth remembering another direction of their development. Whatever tasks the soldiers armed with light automatic weapons solve: patrolling settlements and objects, releasing captured
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One of the most pressing problems of infantry armament that arose in the First World War was the presence of a light machine gun capable of operating in all types of combat and in any conditions in infantry battle formations, providing direct fire support to the infantry. Russia during the war acquired hand
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The first submachine guns appeared during the First World War. As conceived by their creators, this new type of rapid-fire small arms, in which an ordinary pistol cartridge was used, was supposed to significantly increase the firepower of the advancing troops. According to the terms of Versailles
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From machine guns to mortars, from direct-fire weapons to modern missiles. The shooter has various weapons that can help him win in battle. The newest portable anti-tank complex NLAW. Using the calculated guidance along the line of sight, the shooter simply follows the target
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Argentina's first own submachine gun was created in the early thirties based on solutions spied on in foreign projects. Subsequently, in almost all new projects of this kind, they continued to use well-mastered and studied ideas. However, this approach led to
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Another novelty of small caliber appeared at the Brazilian company Taurus. It's about a pistol chambered for .22LR. For some unknown reason, it has been compared to sports pistols. Such comparisons, of course, are not in favor of the Brazilian product, but here you need to understand that at the moment in
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Annotation: The AK-74 manual recommends a direct shot at the chest figure, but chest targets do not exist on the battlefield. The fire duel must be fought with the main target. Therefore, it is necessary to fire up to a range of 300 m with a direct shot with a "3" sight, which will allow the submachine gunner to conduct a fire duel even with the help of
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This is a continuation of the article about carbines of the KS-23 family. The first part is HERE. Over time, for the KS-23 carbine, a fairly wide range of 23 mm ammunition of various types of action was developed: with rubber and plastic bullets filled with buckshot or with inert containers for
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Many samples of small arms that appeared at the beginning of the 20th century deservedly bear the title of the first products of a particular class. In the absence of ready-made proven solutions, gunsmiths had to propose and test new schemes, which resulted in the emergence of new classes of weapons
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We write a lot about what is being developed here, and sometimes we forget about the weapons that are being developed "there". This is partly due to a lack of information. Partly a banal lack of interest in these developments. But it is necessary to watch, at least in order to correctly assess the level
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The Russian media, and we together with them, are discussing the statement of TsNIITOCHMASH on the development of modular weapons for the Russian army. The idea of using modular weapons in the troops is not new. Many countries, mostly, of course, high-tech partners of NATO, have long been applying in practice a vast