From the MAS 40: The History of French Semiautomatic Rifles (1940–1956)
By Jean Huon - A semiautomatic rifle was registered in a 1946 program, but research completed before the War was ...
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Falling Short: How Years Of Submachine Gun Research And Hesitation Left French Fighting Forces Fragile In The Face of War
By Jean Huon Before the end of WWI, French headquarters realized that the armament of the infantry was obsolete and ...
Wartime Needs Force Factories To Change Course
By Jean Huon The Ribeyrolles rifle is fitted with a Chauchat bipod. From Bicycles to Ribeyrolles’ Automatic Weapons As early ...
A Fading Star: The star S135 Submachine Gun, That is
By Jean Huon Star pistol with stock, selector and 50-shot magazine. José Cruz Echeverria was an established gunsmith in Spain ...
The M1905 Mannlicher
By Jean Huon Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher. (Authorís files) The last quarter of the 19th century and the beginning of ...
THE CHACO WAR
By Jean Huon Military history is a fascinating subject, particularly the story of “forgotten wars” such as the Boer War ...
RIBEYROLLES AUTOMATIC WEAPONS AND CHAUCHAT-RIBEYROLLES MACHINE PISTOLS
By Jean Huon The term “machine pistol” appeared for the first time in July 1918, with a new weapon presented ...
M1907 ROTH STEYR PISTOL
By Jean Huon Mannlicher pistols were not successful in the Austrian Army, but other guns were developed in that country, ...
AUTOMATIC WEAPONS: FRENCH FORERUNNERS
By Jean HuonFrench small arms manufacturers and engineers were forerunners in many fields developing many automatic weapons. Unfortunately, the innovative ...
THE DARNE MACHINE GUN
By Jean Huon A relatively unknown machine gun used by France and other countries from WW I to the 1930s, ...
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