Firearms
A new machine gun can meet its range and lethality requirements yet remain awkward when boarding a vehicle, carrying it, or changing positions. Everyday use ...
Danila Karpenko
There is a shot counter hidden inside the grip of Estonia’s service rifle. It does not help the soldier aim or tell them how many rounds remain in the ...
Place a Soviet AKM next to a late-production Yugoslav Zastava M70 and the ancestry of the latter is immediately obvious. The same long-stroke gas-piston ...
October 1941 was drawing to a close. The enemy was advancing on Moscow from three directions. The 3rd Tank Group and the 9th Field Army were advancing on ...
Some weapons become famous because of wars. Others earn their reputation through records, unusual engineering, or service with elite military units. And then ...
In the history of Soviet small arms, the AO-46 usually appears somewhere in the margins of the much larger Kalashnikov story. It was a small experimental ...