Weapon 2024, November

In the fall of 2011, the Makarov pistol celebrates its anniversary. 60 years in service is a very decent period. Although personal weapons are quite "conservative" and well-proven systems can remain in service for a long time, while in other types of weapons and military equipment, more than one generation may change

In our country, many people are interested in small arms. As a rule, these are hunters who prefer to use weapons for their intended purpose, but there is also a category of people who collect rare specimens. There are few such fanatical admirers, but the weapons collected in their collections are capable of

Russian Far East, wild, wild ost … Harsh climate, inexhaustible natural resources, incredible distances, unexplored indigenous population, sometimes overshadowing the American Indians with their militancy … The development of Siberia and the Far East is a grandiose epic, our honor, pride and glory

At a recent meeting of the General Staff, a positive decision was made to leave the bayonet-knife in service with the army. Questions about how to write off this type of cold weapon began to be considered after the American Defense Department made a landmark decision to abandon

2011 turned out to be rich in sensational or sometimes even scandalous news regarding the Russian Armed Forces. The reform is moving along the planned path, and not all of its nuances are clear to the philistine masses. And scandalous news regularly receives official denial

Not so long ago, all our compatriots who had at least some relation to the army or the production of weapons were literally dumbfounded by the thundering news - the AK-74, which was the main weapon of the Russian soldier for the past almost four decades, will no longer be purchased from the plant

The international competition of sniper pairs of special forces units entered the final and most dynamic phase - the "shooting" of the most famous terrorists began

The Finns have developed a versatile sniper weapon. M PORT invites you to take a look at a rifle suitable for any battle. The group of arms companies Beretta Defense Technologies presented its promising development to the interested public. It's about the new Sako TRG sniper rifle

At the VIII International Exhibition of Arms "Nizhny Tagil - 2011", the combat capabilities of the newest model, produced at the Moscow arms plant of the Group of Companies "Promtechnologii", were successfully demonstrated

Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the general staff, said that each brigade of the Russian Armed Forces will be assigned a special unit consisting exclusively of snipers. Since the course of hostilities has changed significantly in recent decades, snipers are no less in demand in battle

If we talk about the role of submachine guns (PP) in the history of military conflicts, then this role is difficult to overestimate. This weapon itself appeared so quickly that some contemporaries did not fully understand its main purpose. So what was the purpose of the first submachine guns and who

Former sporting rifles with a sliding bolt are gradually reaching the snipers of special forces The experience of local wars and military conflicts in recent decades leads to the conclusion that the role of snipers has increased, especially in battles for settlements and in the city. The need arose for their actions in

The outbreak of hostilities with Germany forced domestic specialists to come to grips with the problem of improving firearms. The available samples had a number of disadvantages, including significant weight, low maneuverability and firing range. To eliminate

DP-64 - a grenade launcher, created in 1989 by FSUE GNPP "Basalt" under the code "Nepryadva", has no analogues abroad. In 1990 he was adopted by the KGB state security troops (special purpose units). Small batches are currently being produced by JSC ZiD in the city of Kovrov. Grenade launchers

JNG 90 Bora model 2007 Length, mm 1200 Barrel length, mm 660 Weight, kg 6.40 Shop, qty. cartridges 10 Initial bullet velocity, m / s 860 Effective firing range, m 1200 Caliber, mm 7.62x51 NATO (.308Win) In 2004, the Turkish state company MKEK (Makina ve Kimya

The V-94 large-caliber sniper rifle was the direct predecessor of the OSV-96OSV-96 rifle when used Caliber, mm 12.7x108 Length in firing position, mm 1746 Length in stowed position, mm 1154 Barrel length, mm 1000 Weight without cartridges, kg 12.9 Magazine capacity, qty. cartridges

The improved XM2010 sniper rifle (formerly known as the M24E1) is a deep modernization of the M24 army sniper rifle commissioned by the American military by Remington Arms. The purpose of this modernization was to improve both the operational characteristics of the weapon and

It is known about the new machine that the 200th series will have an advantage in application efficiency by 40-50% in comparison with the previous models. As follows from Grodetsky's statement, the new machine will have a bar that is designed to mount additional equipment - laser

Acting General Director of OJSC Izhmash Maxim Kuzyuk in his interview with the Russian media said that the designers of the enterprise have begun to develop a completely new platform for the production of a modern machine, which will be significantly different from their

In 2003, the Chinese company Jianshe Group began to create a 7.62 mm sniper rifle for the army and law enforcement agencies. The work was completed in 2004. In 2005, a new Chinese sniper rifle, indexed JS 7.62, was shown publicly. Rifle

At the International Exhibition of Defense Systems and Equipment Partner 2011, held from June 28 to July 1 this year in Belgrade, the Serbian weapons manufacturer Zastava Arms showed a new 5.56 mm M09 / M10 machine gun. The Serbs do not hide that the design of their weapons is based on the famous PKM machine gun. About it

What do we remember when it comes to caseless weapons? An interested person will immediately say about the German G11 machine gun, maybe they will also remember that the Germans developed a PDW-class submachine gun and a light machine gun with a magazine for 300 rounds under the same cartridge. Very meticulous (like your

In the list of the most important events of police reports around the world, confrontations between the police and large groups of street demonstrators and fans are increasingly mentioned. According to analysts, repelling attacks by aggressive groups of hooligans are suppressed by police units with great effort and not always

As it became known in 2011, the military units of biological, radiation and chemical protection (RHBZ) of the Ground Forces of Russia will have jet infantry mobile flamethrowers of a completely new modification - RPO PDM-A "Shmel-M". The specified type of weapon has a significant

The Ukrainian shipyard JSC Leninskaya Kuznya announced the start of production of the 40-mm automatic grenade launcher UAG-40. The UAG-40 is an automatic grenade launcher that uses ammunition that meets NATO standards. It is interesting that this grenade launcher is not the work of designers from Ukraine, it was created in

The Second World War served as a powerful catalyst for a breakthrough in the development of weapons and military technologies. This can be fully attributed to German military-technical thought. Defeats of the Wehrmacht on all fronts and increasing every day massive Allied air raids on

In films about the Great Patriotic War, our Red Army soldiers, as a rule, are armed with PPSh submachine guns, and German soldiers are certainly armed with angular MPs. To some extent, this corresponded to reality, given that this type of automatic weapon designed for shooting

SS2-V1Pindad SS2 assault rifles (assault rifles) were developed in Indonesia by the state-owned company PT Pindad. The SS2 rifles are based on the SS1 rifles, which are licensed copies of the Belgian FN FNC rifle, produced in Indonesia

The Heckler submachine gun - Koch HK MP7, developed in the late 1990s by the German company Heckler and Koch, according to the classification adopted in the west, belongs to a new class of small arms - Personal Defense Weapon (PDW), and is intended for arming military personnel

Pistol M.V. Margolin was developed in 1946 and has been serially produced since 1948. The so-called "long" 5.6 mm side-firing cartridges are used for firing. Since 1952 the pistol has been produced for a "short" cartridge (MC-1). The pistol has undergone minor upgrades and is currently

Intensive saturation of armored vehicles of armies of almost all countries of the world in the second half of the twentieth century and its active use in all types of combined arms combat created conditions under which it became necessary to arm the infantry with adequate means of fighting armored vehicles

At the beginning of the 21st century, the Russian army and law enforcement agencies were faced with the problem of equipping personnel with effective short-barreled weapons. A new set of service small arms was supposed to include two main elements - ammunition and weapons. For

After the removal of the APS from the armament of army units, it was used in special services units. In 1993, by order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, an attempt was made to modernize the APS. The modified pistol was planned to replace the 5.45-mm and 7.62-mm Kalashnikov assault rifles, which are dangerous in urban conditions. But on

The main event at the international exhibition of military equipment and weapons MILEX-2011 in Minsk was the presentation by Russia of a completely unique silent mortar. This type of weapon is intended for special forces units, and its main distinguishing feature is maximum stealth when

The line of individual automatic weapons SCAR of the firm from Belgium "FN Herstal" (FN Herstal) has replenished with new models. One of the samples is a 5.56 mm automatic rifle, which received the IAR index. This rifle looks very similar to the SCAR L / Mk 16 rifle, but has a very original

They say that this particular weapon is a real German "Schmeiser", and not the MP 38/40 submachine gun developed by Heinrich Vollmer, which is often shown to us in films about the Great Patriotic War. It was this rifle that became the prototype of the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifle and the equally famous FN

To replace the M16, which is not very suitable for urban combat conditions, the Israeli company IMI TAAS (Israel Military Industries) in the 90s began developing a new generation of weapons, using the now fashionable bullpup scheme. This is such a layout diagram of small arms, where the store, the bolt and

In 1982, a weapon designed for stellar expeditions was designed and adopted by the Space Forces in 1986. The fact of its existence for many years could not even be mentioned. The design and its purpose were classified. Of course, there is no talk of militarizing space

The first sample of the TK pistol (Tula Korovin) chambered for 7.65mm Browning was developed by Sergei Aleksandrovich Korovin in 1923. However, primarily due to the complexity of the design and the large mass, this pistol was not adopted by the Red Army. But in 1925 the sports society "Dynamo"

The Vepr-12 smoothbore rifle (carbine) is a relatively new development of the Molot plant (Vyatskiye Polyany) and was created as a direct competitor to the Saiga 12C / Saiga 12K series rifles, which are very popular in Russia. The main purpose of the new guns is sport