Weapon 2024, November

Mitraleza Reffi. Looks like new. Preserved in the War Museum of the Castle of Walrus in Lausanne, Switzerland And he said to himself: “Let whatever happens, we will answer everything We have a Maxim machine gun, they have no machine gun.” Hilary Bellock, 1898 People and weapons. And it so happened that quite recently I went to "VO"

Submachine gun of Adolf Furrer MP41 / 44 (Military Museum of the Castle of Walrus, Lausanne) People and weapons. It has always been and will always be so: somewhere there is an excess of people-traditionalists, and somewhere, on the contrary, there are rationalizers. And traditionalists, with their hands and teeth, hold on to the familiar, old, time-tested, but somewhere

"Vector". Carbine with a barrel 406 mmWeapons and firms. KRISS USA is the North American subsidiary of the Switzerland-based KRISS company. Its products are sold all over the country, from Virginia to California. Now every self-respecting company necessarily has its own mission of the company. So

Madsen-Rasmussen M1896 rifle, presented in the US automatic rifle competition before World War I. View of the receiver on the right Weapons from around the world. One of the first automatic rifles adopted for service, and even more so used in the First World War, became, as

Wilfred G. Ellis XR-86 rifle. Left view Weapons from all over the world. To begin with, let's recall the popular science fiction story of the Strugatsky brothers "Predatory Things of the Century" written in 1964 by the Strugatsky brothers. There were many interesting predictions about the future, but unfortunately limited time

This is what the next novelty of the American arms market looks like: the DX-7 assault rifle Weapons from around the world. People are so arranged that some are constantly drawn to novelty. Others, on the contrary, tenaciously cling to the "good old", and do not approve of any new products. A similar phenomenon, as it turned out, to humanity

"Beretta" model 1934 and release 1937. Caliber 9 mm, magazine capacity 7 rounds Weapons from all over the world. Tell me, what can an ordinary soldier bring with him from the war? Not ours, of course, but, say, American? Of course, something is not very big, because where is the junk in his bag?

Twin brothers: a federal standard M4 carbine (left) and one of the many commercial models of AR-10AR-15 rifles Last time we got acquainted with some examples of semi-automatic American rifles for sport shooting and hunting. Wondered how much in

Weapons and firms. Ghost Gun, or "ghost weapon", is a term coined in the United States by proponents of arms control and has become quite popular. As you know, the American constitution is loyal to its citizens regarding gun ownership. But this does not mean that in America there is no

Our doubts are our traitors. They make us lose what we might have won if we weren't afraid to try. William Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Act I, Scene IV Modern shooter, modern rifle! Accidental happiness, chance encounters! And it so happened that the president of the company

Weapons and firms. Every person, or rather a man, is a bit of a murderer at heart. This is in his genes, because it was a man who, for many hundreds of thousands of years, killed a variety of animals and fed them to his life partner and her offspring. Well fed - well bred. He fed poorly … and was

Somehow it looks like childish fun with bells and whistles, even Americans do not go for this at home, they will do it for the aborigines … Vladimir 5. March 7, 2019 Weapons and firms. We continue our acquaintance with small arms from different companies, based on the design of the samples of which is the design of the AR-15 rifle

Weapons and firms. So, Arthur Savage made a name for himself and capital on a rifle with a rotary magazine, which the military did not like, but the Indians and hunters liked, and then he was drawn to create a pistol as well. And I must say that he really managed to make a self-loading pistol, which brought

Weapons and firms. We continue our story about companies that are in one way or another related to the production of automatic rifles based on the AR-15, the legendary Eugene Stoner rifle, which, as readers of "VO", have probably already been able to notice from the previous materials of the cycle, is not produced in the West unless very

Weapons and firms. It has always been and will always be that "the best someone else's" is often not accepted only because there is "worse, but one's own." Oh, the priority of “ours” hovers in technology amid the ringing of political chatter: “We are great, we are powerful, higher than the sun, more clouds!” And it happens that everything is exactly the way it is. Well

Weapons and firms. Although Sweden has maintained its neutrality for almost 200 years, it has made significant progress in the field of weapons technology and remains among the countries whose military capabilities are largely based on their own developments. But very often the military faces

Weapons and firms. In the world of technology, including the military, it very often happens that no new product has time to get on the conveyor, as there are people who see how it can be improved. And nothing can be improved, since all contracts have been signed, money has been allocated, and any change in

Weapons and firms. Today we are unlikely to be able to find a middle-aged man who would not have heard the name Schmeisser. Moreover, even outside Europe, people know that the Schmeisser is nothing more than an angular German machine gun from the Second World War. In Soviet cinema, Germans are usually with him

Weapons and firms. At one time, the Soviet tanker V. P. Chibisov in his book of memoirs "English tanks at the Cool Log" (Novosibirsk, 1996) highly appreciated the English machine gun "Bren", and even spoke of it as a "gentleman machine gun" … However, not only him. In India, he was at

Firms that produce weapons. The success of the AR-15 showed that this rifle has great commercial potential. Anything that has this potential is produced, marketed and sold. So the German company Heckler & Koch GmbH also started producing automatic rifles based on

The history of the creation of the taser. I don’t know how anyone, but I don’t really like American “life” films, where good people sometimes have “unkind faces”, and bad people, on the contrary, are “handsome”. I don't like the fact that for one white actor there is necessarily a Negro actor, and if the supporting actor

Firms that produce weapons. Today we are starting a new series of publications dedicated to firms that have been producing and producing small arms. Naturally, their story will be told, but the main emphasis will be on what these firms are today. About individual samples that

Today, many peoples (and states!), And I'm not talking about individual citizens, are simply obsessed with the idea of making their roots more ancient and proving to everyone and everything that it was his people who were the most … was the most advanced in all respects. Why? Yes, because now performance really decides everything

Submachine guns yesterday, today, tomorrow. Well, now we got to the end of our series on submachine guns. Not a day or two she gathered and not published in a week. But on the other hand, it managed to cover, if not all (and this would be a truly difficult task for one person), then a lot

Submachine guns yesterday, today, tomorrow. There is another direction for improving submachine guns, which, by the way, we also talked about, but practically did not consider specific examples (except in the material about the Austrian submachine gun based on the AUG rifle), and which

Submachine gun: yesterday, today, tomorrow. It often happens that the topics for the next articles to the authors of "VO" are suggested by its readers. So this time it was the same: "And where are the Chinese !?" And indeed, where are they and what are their successes in creating new submachine guns? About this today our

Submachine gun yesterday, today, tomorrow. So, we have made a complete turn in time, tracing the entire evolution of submachine guns. Their story began as a story of a very specific weapon for "trench warfare!" Continued in the role of "police weapons", after which they became the second most important

Submachine gun: yesterday, today, tomorrow. In the previous article, we talked about the fundamental possibility of creating new submachine guns for a completely unusual cartridge, and the bullet in this cartridge was completely unusual. But so far, such exoticism is hardly worth counting on. That's why

Submachine gun yesterday, today, tomorrow. Submachine guns from different countries and continents are often very similar, like twin brothers. But they say about each that it is he who is better than all the others. Today we take a look at the CBJ-MS submachine guns in 6.5x25 CBJ-MS from the Swedish company CBJ Tech AB and CPW

Submachine gun: yesterday, today, tomorrow. What parameters should be effective bullets for submachine guns, the purpose of which is the fight against terrorists? If the ShA-12 assault rifle has a striking effect due to the 12.7 mm caliber, then is it possible to create something different based on

Submachine gun yesterday, today, tomorrow. In the future, cartridges for submachine guns may specialize even more and turn into something completely fantastic today. Why? Yes, everything just goes to that. Protection is improving - and the means of overcoming it are improving. No wonder there appeared

Submachine gun: yesterday, today, tomorrow. New ideas in the field of creating submachine guns were the result of those challenges of the time that once again stood on the agenda of the military. It only remained to translate the answer to them into metal. And it was done! New types of ammunition have appeared, and under

Submachine gun: yesterday, today, tomorrow. Today our story will focus on the samples of this weapon that appeared in the late 80s - early 90s of the last century. During this time, the world changed a lot, and weapons also became involved in a complex process of change. Why do you need a submachine gun?

Submachine gun: yesterday, today, tomorrow. How were the Kiraly submachine guns different from all the others? Now that we have sufficiently familiarized ourselves with the history of this type of weapon and its features, let's take a small "step aside" and look at the same "Kiraly", well, how

MP5 submachine guns, "Yati-Matik" and "Spectrum". They were the further development of the line of this type of small arms and the answer to the next challenges of their time. Better late than never! Although polls of military personnel about what weapons they would like to fight were conducted at the end

John Hill thought for a long time. And I came up with Amazing things sometimes happen in invention and, in particular, military invention. And it so happened that back in the late 40s of the twentieth century, the former American military pilot John L. Hill (article on "VO" "Projects of submachine guns with longitudinal

The readership of "VO" clearly liked the series of articles on submachine guns, as evidenced by their comments. Even verbal battles ensued, which is significant. Their only drawback is the desire to quickly declare their knowledge and to convict others of ignorance. Meanwhile, the absolute

They say that ideas are in the air. They also say that information is like water: it tends to seep everywhere. Yes, in fact, she really does not need to leak. There are mass media, there are "official statements", there are military attachés, there are spies. In a word, learn about what others have and apply

In the previous article, we talked about the most famous submachine guns of the third, post-war generation. Their development began either during the war years, or shortly after its end. The main trends in the work of designers were increasing reliability (and here the Swedes have achieved a lot)

So, we saw that third-generation machine guns began to be developed at the end of World War II, and somewhere in the early 60s they were put into service. True, the old approaches were still making themselves felt. The military believed that they needed (if only they still needed one!)