Weapon 2024, November

The Anti-Tank Grenade Launcher (RPG) enjoys a high reputation among the rebels for providing them with inexpensive anti-tank weapons that do not require a lot of training. The newest version of this weapon is the RPG-30. The fact is that against shaped-charge warheads has long been

US military chooses new long-range sniper weapon The Americans have begun to search for replacements for rifles that have served the GI for over 60 years. This is not just about updating the weapon, but about a sharp increase in its characteristics in terms of range and accuracy of fire. At the end of April it became known that the Corps

Representatives of the Promtekhnologii group of companies reported on the preparations for the launch of a completely new rifled weapon, which possesses unique tactical and technical data. The creators of the new model of the rifle, called ORSIS, claim that their analogues

The light heavy machine gun LW50MG, developed by General Dynamics, is a development of the American XM-307 ACSW / XM-312 program, which has recently experienced financial difficulties. In fact, the LW50MG machine gun has become a simplified and cheaper version of the XM-312 machine gun, having lost

The question of which small arms is better, AK or M16, has actually turned into a rhetorical one. Of course, the AK has become a cult assault rifle: even despite its rather low accuracy when firing, the incredible reliability and simplicity of design made the AK and all its modifications the most

Until recently, the development of individual small arms of a soldier followed its own path, separate from the latest technologies. Electronics in the layout of assault rifles and assault rifles were either not used at all, or were used very limited - mainly in the design of optical and night

For some time now, in the Solnechnogorsk training center, snipers have been trained to work with the Steyr Mannliher rifle, which is then sent for a graduate of the center to the duty station. The Steyr-Mannlicher SSG 04 sniper rifle has a longitudinally sliding bolt action with four lugs located

The US military was presented with a project for the production of an innovative weapon - the XM-25 25 mm grenade launcher. The project was recently approved, its cost is estimated at 65.8 million. This weapon is semi-automatic and is equipped with a laser rangefinder. He was already

During Operation Enduring Freedom, which the United States has been conducting in Afghanistan for several years, the American military, mainly special forces, from time to time still have to conduct active hostilities. In the course of conducting autonomous operations in the mountains, US special forces faced a problem

At the end of the 20s of the last century, the command of the Red Army announced a competition for the creation of an automatic pistol. The new pistol, as conceived by the command, was to be easy to use, reliable, of course, automatic and technologically advanced in production. The announced competition was on

The US firm Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Inc., which specializes in the production of long-range large-caliber weapons, has announced its new MRAD (Multi-Role Adaptive Design) rifle. The rifle is equipped with a longitudinally sliding rotary bolt and is designed to destroy

Popular Mechanics magazine rating The most common rifle: M16 Country: USA Developed: 1959 Weight: 2.88–3.4 kg (depending on modification) Length: 986–1006 mm Caliber: 5.56 mm Rate of fire: 700–900 rds / min Initial bullet speed: 948 m / s The rifle was developed by the American

Pistol Walther PP (Polizei Pistole), a police pistol from the Carl Walther Waffenfabrik company, it is rightfully considered one of the best examples of German short-barreled weapons. Walther PP, despite its 80-year history, is still a role model and is in service today

Azerbaijani sniper rifle IST 14.5 "Istiglal" (IST 14.5 Anti Material Rifle) will be included in the catalog of world small arms. According to APA, technical indicators and other necessary information on weapons have already been submitted to Janes, which compiles the catalog

"Parabellum" - the legendary German pistol, which many have heard of, a weapon that has rightfully become the symbol of the German pistol of the first half of the twentieth century. "Parabellum" has a recognizable, original and unlike any other pistol look. This pistol was developed at the beginning of the past

In the mid-90s of the last century, the AEK-919 Kashtan submachine gun was developed at the Kovrov Mechanical Plant chambered for the 9x18 PM cartridge. The Austrian Steyr MPi-69 submachine gun was taken as a model for the creation of a new weapon by the Kovrov gunsmiths, but after the release of the first trial batch

The AEK-971 is a promising machine gun, a continuation of the AEK with exactly the same principle of operation, in fact, it became the AK-107/108. But this machine did not acquire recognition from Soviet gunsmiths. In August 1981, Soviet gunsmiths designers, as part of development work on the topic "Creation of an automatic machine, in 1.5

Small arms at all times have been and remain the main destructive force. Not only the outcome of a particular battle, but also of the entire military campaign largely depends on how well the soldiers of motorized rifle units are armed. The Russian army became the heir not only of the ideas and symbols of the Soviet

One of the main directions for the development and improvement of special intelligence remains to increase the combat readiness of formations and military units, equip them with reconnaissance equipment and special weapons. Over 60 years of history of special forces for arming and equipping units and formations

According to ArmyTimes, in May 2011, the US Army will announce a tender for the development and supply of new assault rifles. In the future, they will be used by the military along with the upgraded M4A1. This competition is expected to run for three years. According to the results of the tender, the winner should be

In Soviet Russia, after 1931, sniper weapons were developed mainly on the basis of self-loading rifles, sniper versions of such rifles as: Degtyarev self-loading rifles (arr. 1930), Rukavishnikov (arr. 1938), Tokarev (SVT- 40), automatic rifle

This weapon was created in the 30s of the last century in Nazi Germany. Since the area of use of the pistol buckle was very limited, quite a few of them were released. The whole thing works very simply. There are two types of pistol buckles - double-barreled and four-barreled (7.65 and 5.6

If you ask any soldier who served in the Soviet (Russian) army what a conventional army weapon should be, he will either not understand the question, or he will describe the device of a Kalashnikov assault rifle - a hard barrel of a certain length with an awesome front sight, a stock for shooting from the hand, a magazine chambered for

The American Military Channel has compiled a rating of the best examples of small arms created in the twentieth century. Each model was evaluated by military experts for accuracy of fire, combat effectiveness, originality of design, ease of use and reliability. The first place was taken by the legendary AK-47

Recently, more and more controversies have flared up around the statement of the Minister of Defense of Russia Anatoly Serdyukov, who made claims to domestic small arms, in particular to the legendary Kalashnikov assault rifle and Dragunov sniper rifle. In the opinion of the minister, this weapon is

The Mauser C-96 (Mauser K-96) is a legendary weapon, a heavy, powerful pistol developed by the Mauser brothers. Brothers Wilhelm and Paul Peter (left) Mauser The pistol was developed in 1893 by the Federle brothers, who worked in the arms factory for the other Mauser brothers. They have two more years

I would like to bring to your attention a very unusual sample with a rather curious history .. The preamble is as follows: Product name - "GRAD". The ammunition used - 6x49. The store is box-shaped, sector, for 30 rounds, in design and architecture, completely similar to metal

The sniper detection device is only four inches in size, developed in Britain. British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan received a revolutionary new device for testing, capable of determining the exact position of enemy snipers at a distance of 1000 yards (900 m). Tiny

In the late 1980s, while the Klimov designers were working on the small-sized machine CP-3 "Whirlwind", the Tula gunsmiths from the Instrument-Making Design Bureau (KBP) began working on an alternative version - the 9A-91 machine gun. In the West, the small-sized weapon received the designation PDW

Scramasax is a combat knife with one-sided sharpening and, as a rule, an asymmetrical shank. Scramasax is a term covering a wide variety of knife varieties, from small table knives to large combat knives. For simplicity, we will use the term scramasax, only to refer to weapons

7.62x51 mm Accuracy International Arctic Warfare (AI AW 7.62) sniper rifleIn the early 1980s, the British Army announced a competition to replace the aging Enfield L42 sniper rifles. The main participants of the competition were the English companies Parker-Hale with a rifle "model

In 2003, the Scientific and Technical Center for Precision Engineering of the National Space Agency of Ukraine presented the Vepr assault rifle (Vepr - Russian). The automaton was created as a modernization of the AK-74 assault rifle and was made according to the bullpup scheme. "Vepr" is positioned as a replacement for those in service

The rifle is made in a bullpup layout according to the scheme of L.V. Bondarev on the basis of TsKIB SOO (KBP branch). In the manufacture of the rifle, the experience of developing an IED was taken into account and a number of its design solutions were used. The main original feature of the OTs-44 is the forward movement of the barrel for reloading (a similar scheme

The author of these lines has already described in detail about domestic sniper weapons in the book "Laws of Sniper War". Nevertheless, it makes sense to dwell briefly on the most interesting and new systems. About the self-loading rifle of the E.F. Dragunov - SVD system in recent years it has been written

Developed at the end of World War II by S.G. Simonov, the creator of the 7.62-mm automatic self-loading rifle ABC mod. 1936 and a 14.5-mm self-loading anti-tank rifle PTRS arr. 1941 After the final revision and elimination of all the shortcomings identified during all kinds of tests

In the fifties, in connection with the rearmament of our army, the designers were given the task of creating a self-loading sniper rifle. Yevgeny Fedorovich Dragunov, already well-known by that time the inventor of a number of models of a sports rifle, also joined in this work. Several

The submachine gun PP-19-01 "Vityaz" is used to arm the patrol and guard services, traffic police and internal security. The submachine gun was developed by the IZHMASH Concern OJSC arms enterprise in accordance with the requirements of the Vityaz detachment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, according to which it got its name. On

Anti-terrorist and anti-partisan actions of power structures, as well as peacekeeping operations in which the use of heavy weapons is either impossible or prohibited, prompted the army structures to reassess their values: 1. training centers for snipers were revived2. within the framework

After another year of testing and development, the US Army has finally decided to send its most high-tech weapons to Afghanistan. The first batch of "smart" XM-25 grenade launchers should have entered the battlefield 2 years ago, but the weapon was too innovative to pass all the tests

CJ Chivers talks to Foreign Policy about the Kalashnikov, the world's true weapon of mass destruction. The Kalashnikov assault rifle, as CJ Chivers writes in his book The Gun, is “the most recognized weapon in the world, one of the most recognizable in the world. products ". For half a century, the AK-47 and