A Danish Success Story – The “Madsen” Submachine Guns
Once the creator of one of the first mass-produced light machine guns, Denmark had slept through the dawn of the ...
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Looks Like a Gewehr 98; Feels Like a Gewehr 98 …German Drill Rifle Model 98 “Exerziergewehr 16”
In many phases of military training, the recruits have no need for fully functional service rifles. The standard service rifles ...
A Political Victim: WWII Tensions Prevent Production of the MP SS 42 Submachine Gun
After the occupation of Czechoslovakia, the entire local arms industry came under German influence. The Czechs were very advanced in ...
Dead End Anti-Tank Rifles: Rifle Grenade Launchers of the Luftwaffe
In rivalry with the Wehrmacht, its aerial warfare branch, the Luftwaffe, had developed its own anti-tank rifle grenade launcher for ...
Deadly Effect, Poisoned Bullets for WWII Handguns
The Forensic Institute of the Security Police (Kriminaltechnisches Institut der Sicherheitspolizei / KTI) was a department of the Reich Main ...
Double Works Better, German WWII Cartridges with Two Bullets
In the sixth year of the War, the resources of the German Reich had become scarce. How practical would it ...
The U.S. M3/M3A1 “Grease Gun”: Equipping Armed Forces in Post-War Austria
After World War II, thousands of M3 and M3A1 Grease Guns were scattered all over the world. Thanks to the ...
Limited Success: The Austrian Submachine Guns Steyr MPi 69 and MPi 81
Austria’s armaments industry had suffered great damage in the last years of WWII and lay largely in ruins. So for ...
Tripping the Wire: German Alarm Devices in World War II
With thinly staffed Front lines, the gaps between the individual sentries must somehow be closed. Especially in dark, rainy or ...
Ephemeral Rivalry: Luigi Franchi’s Submachine Gun LF-57
With minor modifications, the Beretta M38/44 became the M38/49, and the following models remained basically the same wartime model without ...
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