Weapon 2024, November

The history of the creation of the PM pistol began long before its official "birth". It was necessary to find a fundamentally new solution in the development of a new model of the pistol, which would replace the obsolete TT. Many outstanding

Heckler & Koch is reluctant to talk to the press, as its main clients are the Bundeswehr and the armed forces of NATO countries. It is not so easy to get acquainted with the new H&K weapons in the army itself. The point here is not at all closedness, but that the latest infantry weapons of the Bundeswehr

For half a century of the Bundeswehr's history, its soldiers have already received the fourth "soldier's bride". Before that, the "girlfriends" of the German recruits were the G98, FAL and G3 rifles. In 1995, the Heckler & KochG36 assault rifle was adopted by the Bundeswehr. The search for a replacement for the G3 began in 1970

Work on the creation of a prototype of a curved machine gun with a bore curvature of 90 degrees was carried out by the designers N.F. Makarov, who completed all the projects of the curved assembly, and K.T. Kurenkov, who worked out the ball mount. The machine gun was intended to arm tanks, more precisely, to protect them

Korobov's TKB-454 assault rifle mod. 52 with a wooden stock The adoption of the AK-47, despite a number of shortcomings, was undoubtedly a great achievement of domestic weapons science. The machine fell in love among the troops for the simplicity of the device, reliability and compactness (in comparison with the SKS carbine)

Continuing to reveal the history of the creation of the AKM, one cannot but make a small digression and tell about another brainchild of Mikhail Timofeevich - an automatic carbine (according to the current foreign classification "assault rifle"). As already noted, after the adoption of the AK-47, the small arms

The Model REC7 automatic rifle is the latest development of the Barrett Firearms Company. This small American company has gained worldwide fame for its large-caliber sniper rifles, the most famous of which is the M82A1, the "legendary" "Light Fifty". Earned

Recently, there have been many negative reviews about domestic small arms, equipment and personal protective equipment. Some even think that the "Kalash" is outdated and we are 30 years behind the leading countries of the world

Taking a blank sheet of paper, FN specialists have created a weapon that claims to be the "rifle of the future." The F2000 (military version) and its civilian counterpart FS2000 are ready to prove that tomorrow has already arrived. The only thing left from the past in the new product is the 5.56 NATO caliber and

It all started back in the second half of the 19th century. In 1865, Paul Mauser retired from active military service, which he served at the Ludwigsburg arsenal, where he managed not only to perfectly study the design features of various types of modern weapons, to see them

The navy needs more than warships or missiles. To equip special forces, special weapons systems are required, designed to perform specific combat missions. So, combat swimmers need special small arms that can work effectively

The product of the Tula Instrument Design Bureau, part of the High Precision Complexes holding, will become the star of the DEFEXPO India 2014 exhibition On the 8th

From the author In the middle of March, on some forum, I accidentally discovered an image of a weapon, hitherto unknown to me, and it attracted my attention with its unusual appearance. The shape of the forend and the receiver cover were reminiscent of the Lynx or Vityaz PP, but there were some differences. But everything said that the product is

In 2002, brothers John and Jeff Overstreet, with the assistance of their wives Gretchen and Stephanie, founded a new arms company called CMMG. Initially, the new enterprise, like other organizations in the industry, produced copies of existing weapons, as well as manufactured parts and accessories for them

Last time we settled on a relatively "ancient" Norwegian rifle, after first described the later samples of rifles of the Swedish army … here. And then there's Maxim's machine guns

Until the early fifties of the last century, Egypt did not produce weapons on its own. Seeing the existing situation, the country's leadership made a fundamental decision to build new enterprises, which were to produce new weapons and military equipment. Lacking its own design

As with every site, on "VO" it also happens that someone comes and goes, someone stops visiting the site for some reason, and someone opens it for themselves and becomes an active user. It is also clear that the materials previously published on it become a thing of the past and “get old”, in that

“And I saw that the Lamb had removed the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four animals, saying, as it were in a thunderous voice: go and see. I looked, and, behold, a white horse, and on him a rider with a bow, and a crown was given to him; and he went out victorious, and to overcome.”(Revelation of John the Theologian

As part of the recent International Maritime Defense Show in St. Petersburg, a number of promising developments of the Russian industry were shown. One of the most interesting novelties was the so-called. small-sized small arms control system (M-MSA) "Serval". This product is a complex

Smooth-bore weapons attract the attention of a very large number of people, because such weapons are available to any adequate, law-abiding, adult citizen. However, in addition to civilian weapons, there are options for guns that are called combat. These samples cause more

The Mk47 STRIKER is said to be “the first major advancement in crewed weapons systems since the end of World War II,” but it is being purchased in relatively small quantities due to its high cost. Most recent order for 25 million

What they just didn’t find fault with, just to humiliate the discussed samples of weapons. They found fault with the name, they say, the AK-47 does not exist (but we will use it, this term). Where did the myths come from and what is now called a "myth"? Basically, these are two sources: the first production samples that carried

“Not to us, Lord, not to us, but to Thy name, give glory, for the sake of Thy mercy, for the sake of Thy truth.” (Psalm 113: 9) S.I. Mosin was really very different from L. Nagant's bolt, first of all, in that it could be disassembled without a screwdriver. Nagant's shutter consisted of fewer

“- If you, approximately, Bondarenko, are standing in the ranks with a gun, and the authorities come up to you and ask:“What do you have in your hands, Bondarenko?” What should you answer? - Rougeau, uncle? - guesses Bondarenko. - You are flawing. Is this a rougeau? You would also say in a village language: towel. That was a house at home, and

Gas pistol Škorpion (Scorpion) Sa vz. 61 caliber 9RA, which has the ability to fire cartridges with a rubber bullet, is a civilian weapon that is a means of effective self-defense. The main purpose of the Sa vz. 61 is to temporarily disable the attacking subject

No one will argue with the fact that practically every breakthrough in science, mankind, in one way or another, tried to apply in military affairs, even if not even directly, but indirectly. In 1916, Albert Einstein made the assumption about the existence of stimulated radiation, which was proven

As you know, a good weapon always has a lot of "clones". Some of them are released under license, some are simply impudently copied. Other than that, really good samples very often become the basis for other models that are offshoots from the main development branch

In the second half of the thirties of the last century, several new types of self-loading and automatic rifles were adopted by the Red Army. The first was the ABC-36 designed by S.G. Simonov, put into service in 1936. This weapon had a number of characteristic flaws, due to which

Even the great Suvorov bequeathed: “A bullet is a fool! Bayonet - well done! " And although since his time the accuracy and rate of fire of the infantryman's hand weapons have grown immeasurably, bayonet combat was still able to decide the outcome of the battle. As the archives say, up to 80% of bayonet attacks in the Great Patriotic War were initiated

Regular readers of TM magazine and Technics and Armaments (as well as Foreign Military Review) can confirm that in the past forecasts regarding the prospects for the development of small arms appeared with enviable regularity and that none of them, however, did not come true !!! No one

Until the end of the forties of the last century, Egypt actually did not have its own defense industry, and therefore was forced to purchase weapons and equipment from foreign countries. Only in 1949 were plans drawn up for the construction of new enterprises and the production of military products. One of

In general, the Germans got a fairly simple, convenient, cheap and technologically advanced weapon. Suffice it to say that thanks to the use of stamping and welding, the cost of the new machine has decreased by 25 Reichsmarks compared to the StG-44 (now it cost 45 marks against the previous 70 - the difference is how

Thanks to the efforts of mass culture, the most incredible rumors are always hovering around the two-handed swords of the Middle Ages. Some endow weapons with a pound weight, others with incredible dimensions, and still others claim that swords of this size could not exist as military weapons

Despite the fact that the 26th International Exhibition of Arms and Defense Technologies "Eurosatory-2018" ended in Paris three days ago, the news stream about the models of promising weapons announced at it continues to be actively disseminated and discussed in military analytical blogs and on other

In the materials published by VO, quite a lot of attention was removed to the history of bronze weapons, and this is not accidental. Indeed, in the history of mankind there was a whole Bronze Age, and this was the era of the first, in fact, globalization in the history of mankind, when people did not yet have a written language, but … but they traded

In general, the reader Alexander sent several questions at once. The questions are interesting, I had to strain myself. I'll start with the question of how much our 7.62x54 cartridge differed from the German 7.92x57, and why we didn't switch to a rimless cartridge. Russian cartridge 7.62x54. Was he that old by the time

At one time, namely at the beginning of the twentieth century, in one of the textbooks of the cadet corps there was the following phrase: "Russia is not an industrial or commercial state, but a military state, destined by its very destiny to be a threat to the peoples!" And I must say that the attitude to military force as a means of solving any arising

Tokarev tried to design a self-loading carbine on the basis of a rifle. Its trials began in January 1940 along with the Simonov carbine. But both samples were recognized as unfinished. So, Tokarev's carbine turned out to have too poor accuracy when conducting automatic fire. Therefore his

"I grew up in the Leningrad blockade …" The words from Vysotsky's song can rightfully be attributed to the weapons with which the soldiers of the Red Army reached Berlin: PPS, Sudaev's submachine gun. The command of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army showed interest in this type of weapon at the end 20s. The first

Let's start with what it is not customary to talk about in VO publications - the issue of historiography. Literally on one hand, you can count the articles, the authors of which refer to certain monographs, or articles by serious authors, and you can not even talk about dissertations and archival materials. However