Weapon 2024, December

Fine antique-style rondash shield from the Vienna Armory. Judging by the inscription on the shield, Emperor Charles V received this magnificent shield along with a paired helmet from his brother Ferdinand I in honor of his African campaign. Medallions with busts can be found on the outer frieze between the Nereids

Siege of Alesia. Melchior Fezelen (c. 1495-1538), 1533 The shields-rondash used by the soldiers are clearly visible … three mines of gold went to each shield. The Third Book of Kings 10:17 Weapons from museums. Today is our special day. We will not only continue our acquaintance with the history of the shield-rondash, not only

McMillan TAC-50C The McMillan TAC-50 rifle is rightly considered the piece of small arms that has revived interest in anti-material rifles. At least this statement is exactly true for the United States. In America, the rifle was adopted in 2000, and since then it has been actively used

A shot from a flintlock rifle always created a cloud of smoke not only from the front, but also from the back. The infantrymen were very disturbed by this. Less disturbed to the riders … Weapons of 1812. Any war is an accelerator of progress. So the Napoleonic wars significantly accelerated this process. It took a lot of weapons

Ruger, based in Southport, Connecticut, is the fourth largest arms company in the United States. Founded in 1949, the company has been delighting its consumers for over seventy years by offering reliable and high-quality firearms on the market. Total in the arsenal of the company

The small-sized automatic machine AM-17 is a further development of the small-sized automatic machine MA, created by the designer Evgeny Fedorovich Dragunov back in the late 1970s. Forty years later, the design of the Dragunov assault rifle found a second life. Within the framework of the forum "Army-2016" Izhevsk gunsmiths

Britannia. 17th Lancers' Own Duke of Cambridge Regiment. The end of the nineteenth century The crowd will suppress a deep sigh, And the woman's crying will break off, When, puffing out fiercely, the headquarters trumpeter will play the Campaign. The peaks will easily pierce the sky. Stirrups will creak slightly. And someone will move with a gesture wild Yours, Russia, tribes. Alexei

A soldier with a serial rifle M1. Photo US Army The M1 Garand self-loading rifle was a very successful weapon, but this fact did not exclude the possibility and the need for further improvements and improvements. Various experiments of this kind were carried out almost until the end of the active operation of the rifle. Curious

A Marine firing a Mossberg 590A1 rifle Since 2018, the United States Marine Corps, in collaboration with several scientific and commercial organizations, is developing a promising non-lethal electroshock ammunition. In the future, based on new technologies, it is proposed to make a whole

Such was seen and depicted by the English artist William Heath of the Battle of Borodino Soldiers, brave children, Where are your sisters? Our sisters are pikes, sabers are firing, This is where our sisters are. Russian military drill song, widely known in the XIX - early XX century On the floor under it was spread wide carpet

In the era of lush lace, brocade caftans Someone had to teach all modesty: Simple harsh steel overshadowed luxury, the brilliance of "Dark-skinned Liza" is ours, our musket is "Brown Bess." And the word of her flint lips was weighty, Kohl

50 BMG cartridges in the magazine for the M107 rifle There are regular attempts to create high-precision rifle complexes based on a guided bullet, but so far none of these developments has been able to go beyond the range. Several years ago, a version of such a system was developed by

A Finnish soldier fires a Suomi KP-31 submachine gun, photo: waralbum.ru Over time, the designer managed to create a number of small arms samples. And his

Basic modification HAC-7 rifle. Photo: Aftermathgunclub.com Kalashnikov assault rifles, FN FAL rifles and AR series have certain advantages that have become the key to their popularity and widespread distribution. Simultaneous use of all the strong features of this weapon, complemented by new original

Shurochka Azarova with a pistol in the uniform of the Sumy Hussar Regiment. The film "Hussar Ballad" 1962 Here the pistols have already flashed, The hammer is thundering against the ramrod. The bullets go off the faceted barrel, And the trigger is flicked for the first time. Here is gunpowder in a trickle of greyish On the shelf pouring. Serrated, screwed securely

Fragment of the panorama "Battle of Borodino" F. Roubaud. The clash of Russian grenadiers with Friant's division Thunder in the twelfth year Has come - who helped us here? The frenzy of the people, Barclay, winter or a Russian god? S. Pushkin. Eugene Onegin Attention of all, I ask, gentlemen. Trouble has come to the Motherland. War thunderstorm

Israeli companies have long entered the international arms and military equipment market. The small arms company IWI is no exception. At the same time, the company does not stop at the production of pistols and assault rifles, discovering new

One of the Kel-Tec SU-16E rifles in action Believe me, the remedy is known, So that finally everything immediately fell into place. No one will say bad things, and whoever decides to say will immediately lie down. Dear boy. 1974 Music by D. Tukhmanov, words by L. Derbenev Weapons and companies. Within the framework of this cycle, many

RPK-16 with drum magazine In 2017, the Kalashnikov concern presented a promising RPK-16 light machine gun. In the future, these weapons were tested, and the development organization was preparing mass production; there were statements about the imminent acceptance into service. However, it has now become known that

AR-500 semi-automatic rifle, photo: bighornarmory.com Created by the gunsmiths of the American company Big Horn Armory, the AR-500 semi-automatic rifle is the most powerful in the world. At the same time, a unique model of small arms is built on the basis of the well-known

Today we will talk about non-standard ways to disassemble a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Many experienced shooters have their own trademark subtleties of disassembling an assault rifle, all of them cannot be listed, but we highlight the most interesting.So, disassembly of a Kalashnikov assault rifle, as you know, is divided into complete and incomplete. Full

1955 year. 10 years after the well-known events in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Bundeswehr was created. The Ministry of Defense, the Bundeswehr itself, all other services. The question arises quite correctly of what and how the new army of the new Germany will be armed

Soviet LPO-50 - later the same Type 58 appeared. By now, the leading armies of the world have recognized the jet flamethrower as hopelessly outdated and abandoned it. The exception is the People's Liberation Army of China, which still has

Whole volumes of literature are devoted to melee weapons: from highly specialized to popular. Nevertheless, we will try to briefly consider this topic in order to find an answer to the question posed above. In fact, all the weapons that humanity used throughout its own history were in

The AO-63 double-barreled submachine gun, another achievement of the Soviet arms industry, was called a "horror story for NATO." But, despite the very interesting technical characteristics, it never entered mass production. Technical characteristics and advantages of AO-63 Development of AO-63 began in

Photo of the plant named after V. A. Degtyarev On July 1, 2020, RIA Novosti, citing its sources in the Russian military-industrial complex, reported that in Kovrov, at the famous plant named after Degtyarev (ZiD), the process of mass production of the new Russian machine A- 545 (GRAU index

SMASH 2000 in collimator performance Several years ago, the Israeli company Smart Shooter Ltd. presented the original "smart" sight for small arms called SMASH 2000. The device of small dimensions is able to accompany the selected target, determine and take into account various parameters

Symbol of Power The main symbol of the US Army is not the Abrams, the M2 infantry fighting vehicle, or the Apache helicopter. Over the long decades of operation of the M16 rifle and its versions, this particular complex has become the hallmark of the U.S Army. Developed on the basis of the M16A2, the M4 carbine, despite

Silent pistol S-4M Although the main methods of dealing with the sound of a shot were invented at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, the special services and the military showed an increased interest in these developments only before the outbreak of World War II. After the end of the war, interest in such developments did not disappear anywhere

Requirements for NGSW products. US Army Graphics Currently, the US Army, in collaboration with several commercial organizations, is implementing the NGSW (Next Generation Squad Weapon) program, which aims to replace existing automatic rifles and

SVLK-14S "Twilight" rifle - holder of a 4.2 km range record The products of this company have already shown the ability to fire at 4.2 km during the day and 1.9 km at night

Here it is: Lebman's pistol for gangsters!”“After the shootout, you sent them leggings. With blood. I cut myself when I shaved. Did you shave with leggings? - I sleep in leggings! "There are only girls in jazz" Weapons and firms. In the recently released on "VO" material "From Mauser Schnellfeuer and PASAM submachine gun to Norlite

Shooter with a PASAM submachine gun Turn around on the march! Verbal is no place for slander. Hush, orators! Vasheslovo, Comrade Mauser. Mayakovsky. Left march Weapons and firms. As soon as the K96 Mauser pistol appeared, and after it other self-loading pistols similar to it, it was noticed that all

The only known photo of an experimental carbine Since the eighties, the main infantry weapon of the Swedish army is the automatic carbine / automatic rifle Automatkarbin 5 or Ak 5. There are several modifications of this weapon with various changes that affect the characteristics. Wherein

A machine gun and a soldier, and also a mother with a child. The picture is simply idyllic! Go beyond the Urals, go beyond the Urals, there is a lot of space for the Molotov dacha. We’ll send the Stalins, and their henchmen, political instructors, commissars and Petrozavodsk swindlers. No, Molotov! No, Molotov, you lie even more than yourself

PTR T-Gewehr early release with a bipod from MG 08/15, the breech is open. Photo Sassik.livejournal.com In September 1916, Great Britain first used tanks on the battlefield, and soon this technique became a common participant in the battles. The German army immediately began to look for ways to combat tanks, including

Shooting from a carbine 995TSWeapons and firms. No, don't say it, but our Russian government is making a big mistake by forbidding our citizens to produce and own military firearms. After all, whoever needs it very much will always get it, or even beat his opponent with an ordinary hammer or

"God created people, and Colonel Colt equalized them in rights." Which, however, does not at all affect my desire to at least partially own the situation. Otherwise not

Russian weapons constantly attract the attention of the foreign press. On April 11, the British edition of the Mirror published its material about the Russian SVLK-14 "Twilight" high-precision rifle. The article's general admiration begins with the headline: '‘Game-changer’ world's deadliest Russian sniper rifle accurate from

What kind of submachine guns you will not see today! There are also very unusual samples. For example, this one, which we will tell you about today, Police Weapons. Who does what during self-isolation! Someone does not leave the Internet, someone, to the delight of his wife, finally makes repairs. I have