Tag: Michael Heidler

FG 42 (type 1). The rifle grenade trials were carried out at Tarnewitz with this early type rifle. By Michael ...

By Michael HeidlerIn the postwar years, Belgium’s army was equipped with weapons of the Allies. But in the early 1950s ...

By Michael Heidler The First World War changed the world. Never before had such major progress in military technology been ...

By Michael Heidler 45 mm of armor steel - that was way too much. With the arrival of the Russian ...

By Michael Heidler In the course of the war, the submachine gun proved indispensable for urban warfare. Compact and portable, ...

By Michael Heidler Another design tested by the Waffenamt. Unfortunately, the final report of the trials seems to be lost. ...

By Michael Hiedler When the Allies examined the weapons discovered in the German Reich after the war, they came across ...

By Michael Heidler The numerical and alphabetical manufacturer's codes on German ordnance items have always been a topic of interest ...

A Gewehr 41(W) fixed to the World War II Deckungszielgerät. When the German army attacked Poland in 1939, the world ...

By Michael Heidler Most well-read collectors of German small arms are aware that the Maschinenkarabiner 42(H) of the Haenel firm ...