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The gunner guides him very accurately, and the "maxim" is like lightning striking. "Well, well, well!" - says the machine gunner, "Well, well, well!" - says the machine gun. Music: Sigismund Katz Lyrics: V. Dykhovichny, 1941 The first material about the Maxim machine gun liked the readers of the VO, and expressed

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A series of articles in the series "Rifles by Countries and Continents" aroused great interest of the VO audience. But the more we delve into this topic, the more new and unusual designs are found in it. It is clear that no rifle in the world can be compared, for example, in popularity with the Mauser, but in

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For many, the submachine guns that were used by Soviet soldiers on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War are, first of all, the Shpagin submachine guns - the famous PPSh. However, in the Soviet Union during the war years, other models of automatic weapons were also actively used. V

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The PPD, contrary to legends, is not copied from the Finnish "Suomi" at all. In 2010, there are two significant anniversaries at once: 75 years ago, a submachine gun of the V. A. Degtyarev system was adopted and 70 years ago - a submachine gun of the G. S. Shpagin system … The fate of the PPD and PPSh reflected a dramatic

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By the end of 1939, when the Soviet-Finnish war began, the Finnish army was armed mainly with small arms of its own production. For example, the Finnish Suomi submachine gun, which outwardly very much resembles the famous Shpagin submachine gun, has become one of the symbols of that

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The STEN submachine gun was born, as it often happens, to the inertia of military officials.In 1938, when the Second World War was already clearly smelling, the British Defense Department rejected the idea of expanding the production of American Thompson assault rifles in their country. Conservatives in uniform

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In 1942, the Owen submachine gun was adopted by the Australian army. This weapon was actively used during the Second World War and some conflicts in subsequent decades. Owen's submachine gun was distinguished by a simple but successful design that provided maximum

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In 1939, Australian self-taught gunsmith Evelyn Owen developed and presented to the army his version of the submachine gun. This weapon had an extremely simple design, and was also distinguished by its low cost. Moreover, the first prototype was assembled by Owen in his own workshop. Simplicity and cheapness of the new

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There was one intelligent machine gunner, Meet my Maxim, And the other machine gun was easel By the nickname, too, Maxim. Music: Sigismund Katz. Words: V. Dykhovichny. 1941 So, last time we stopped at the fact that the "Maxim's Armory Company" began to produce machine guns and widely advertise them in

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Somehow it so happened that here on VO there were no articles of mine about small arms for a long time. But this does not mean at all that work on this topic is not going on. It goes, but slowly, because I don't want to repeat myself, and finding new sources is not at all so easy. For example, about the Swedish machine gun "Knorr-Bremse"

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When about a year ago materials of the series "Rifles by Countries and Continents" appeared on the pages of VO, this was caused, in essence, by a completely prosaic circumstance. I just have a friend who collects them. And he does not have any rifles in his collection, including even Mauser carbines

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Some peoples have what might be called a "cult of precision" when it comes to developing their rifles. And this applies to the Swedes in the first place. Other nations simply wanted their rifles to do the job they were created for - hitting quickly and easily

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And again, two namesakes are on friendly terms, And call both Maxims. Again, the gunner is pointing accurately, hits with maximum force. "Well, well, well!" - says the machine gunner, "Well, well, well!" - says the machine gun! Music: Sigismund Katz. Words: V. Dykhovichny. 1941 Already the first cases of the use of machine guns

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“An interlude is an episode, performance, play or scene. Such an interpretation of this term is given in the “Dictionary of Russian Synonyms.” And now it makes sense to interrupt our story a little about Kh. Maxim and his machine gun and “wander into that steppe” a little. That is, to see what they were doing at the same time

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The East, as you know, is a delicate matter. Once it surpassed the West in terms of technology, but in this respect it remained the "world of artisans", while the West, which was inferior to it in handicrafts, quickly moved to the industrial level and already bypassed the East on it once and for all. At least got around

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We all love to watch movies in one way or another. Some are "war movies", some are science fiction or fantasy, some are watching everything, for some, serials are the most lovable of all. And again, everyone finds their own in them. Someone suffers, looking at the torment of the slave Izaura, someone worries about the "radio operator Kat", someone

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At first there was no Yugoslavia. It just wasn’t, as it is now. There was Serbia that became an independent state in 1878. And the liberated Serbs wanted complete independence, that is, in everything, including weapons. This is how the "Mauser" model of 1880 appeared, which received the name

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By chance, not on purpose, it turned out that when I was preparing the first materials of the series "About Mauser with Love", which were published here on VO in due time, three Spanish Mauser of excellent preservation fell into my hands at once. Well, and of course, having held on to them, I hastened to tell not so much about

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By far the most generous and main supplier of the Republicans was the Soviet Union, which had strong political ties with the leftist government in Spain. In September 1936, the supply of weapons from Soviet arsenals began to Spain. First they sent what was left after the First World War

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Another very interesting weapon chambered for the .22LR cartridge was our Soviet Blum machine gun. It didn’t have the phenomenal rate of fire of Richard Casull’s American submachine gun, and he didn’t need it. But it contained in its design many unusual solutions that make it

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The submachine gun of Sudaev was recognized as the best automatic weapon of the Second World War The fact that during the hostilities the submachine gun (which was then called in our country for short the submachine gun) turned out to be the main automatic weapon of the infantry, was a certain surprise for all those who participated in the Second

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The Bizon submachine gun article generated a lot of interest among site visitors with the FN P90 submachine gun. I think it would be perfectly reasonable to do a little review of this weapon. Many people compare this submachine gun with other samples that have a large-capacity magazine, but this

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The Belgian FN P90 submachine gun is widely known. One of the main factors drawing attention to this weapon is the original store. The magazine of this submachine gun is mounted above the receiver. The cartridges in it are located horizontally and perpendicular to the axis of the barrel. Front

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An important component of the arsenal of any rifle unit is a light machine gun. With a relatively small size and weight, such a weapon is capable of providing a sufficiently high density of fire, which allows the machine gunner to act effectively together with other soldiers. In order to simplify

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In one of my articles published on the VO website, I talked about the Remington rifle, and the material was prepared based on the publication "Remington Rolling Block Military Rifles of the World" (George Layman. Woonsocket, RIUSA: Andrew Mowbray Incorporated Publishers, 2010 - 240pp ). book author

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I found my second Russian rifle in the first special forces museum in Okinawa. Again, it had an unusually short barrel, a feature I initially mistook for a modification. This rifle was in even worse shape. However, the caliber markings were clear, as well as the Remington address and the date 22

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It always happens that a well-done thing causes a lot of imitations, and quite often imitations are not only in no way inferior to the original, but even surpass it in some way. So at the very beginning of the 1920s, the Czechoslovak army decided to test a new self-loading pistol designed by the German

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In a smoky coffee shop you will involuntarily become sad Over a letter to a distant one. Your heart will beat, and you will remember Paris, And the hum of your country: On the way, on the way, the day of fun is over, it's time to hike. Aim for the chest, little zouave, shout "hurray!" For many days, believing in miracles - Suzanne waits. She has blue eyes and a scarlet

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They say that around our planet there is an information and energy field, which the famous "sleeping prophet" John Casey called akashik. It is there that all the souls of the deceased go and there they stay, being united into a kind of Supermind, which sees everything, knows everything, can do everything, but very reluctantly

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It should be noted how much wiser one acts who takes all the best from others, instead of clinging to the worst, but his own. Worse than this, perhaps, only the one who still does this, but does not speak out loud about it, or even just modestly keeps silent about where he got it from

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What makes a person a person? Mainly upbringing - culture is not inherited. That is, something, some abilities, inclinations, habits even - are transmitted. But not a social person in general. In England, one of the universities conducted an experiment: students entered one by one

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I have long promised to give a selection of materials about Mauser rifles, which are in the collection of my old good friend. It's always nice to have good friends, but especially - haha - it's nice to have friends with interesting rifles. And now, finally, I have the opportunity to fulfill my promise. V

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The history of the next German rifle, called the Gewehr 88, is very curious, as well as herself. The fact is that all rifles of the second half of the 19th century were at first rather large-caliber and were loaded with black powder cartridges. Accordingly, as soon as in France appeared

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It is clear that the firm of the Mauser brothers could not stay away from the "arms race" and already in 1889 created a sample of a rifle called the "Belgian Mauser model of 1889", which was the first development of their firm for a new, recently created small-caliber cartridge with a smokeless gunpowder

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The Gewehr 98 rifle was patented by Paul Mauser on September 9, 1895. It became the development of the 7.92-mm M1888 rifle, which was not actually his development, and with which he himself was not very happy. Therefore, already in 1889, he designed a new M1889 rifle, which was put into service

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The new Mauser rifle came out so successful that it fought almost unchanged in the Weimar army throughout the First World War, the army of the Weimar Republic was armed with it, and then the Wehrmacht fought with it in World War II. It has been exported and produced in a wide variety of ways

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How many of them were there exactly - no one knows for sure these same foreign rifles that came to Spain from different countries. You can, however, calculate yourself according to Wikipedia and then it turns out that the Spaniards got 64 rifles! Only from neighboring France to the Republicans got

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“The smaller the caliber, the better the rifle, and vice versa.” (The History of the Rifle. Written by F. Engels at the end of October 1860 - the first half of January 1861. “Essays Addressed to Volunteers.” London, 1861) Personally I

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"He fired once, and fired two, and a bullet whistled into the bushes … You shoot like a soldier," Kamal said, "I'll see how you drive!" ("The Ballad of the West and the East", R. Kipling). However, all of their "backwardness" (there is no other way to say) overshadowed the United States with their rifle! There, the army (infantry and

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What can the most common objects hide in themselves: food, household items, jewelry, office supplies? If offhand - nothing special, if only they are not with all sorts of "bells and whistles", as they would say now. But no … Just such ordinary things were used, for example, in the espionage