The Nazi’s Tried Using Exploding Nets to Clear Minefields in WWII
Already in the early stage of World War II, the German troops on their advance encountered landmines of all kinds, ...
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Fire from the East – the Russian flamethrower LPO-50
In the early 1950s, the Soviet Army experimented with replacement models for the aging wartime ROKS flamethrowers. The LPO-50 model ...
The Indomitable Maxim Machine Gun: On the Ukrainian Front Lines Today at 100 Years Old
Incredibly, right now, both sides in the Russia-Ukraine war are reportedly using 100-year-old M1910 Maxim machine guns in large numbers. ...
The History and Use of Flechettes in Ammunition
The word “flechette” is French for “small arrow.” These little projectiles were first used in modern times in World War ...
Early Night Vision Tech: The German Zielgerat ZG 1229 Vampir
The ZG 1229, code named “Vampir,” was an infrared night scope developed during World War II for the German Wehrmacht ...
The Yugoslavian M48 Rifle: The Last of The State Produced Mausers
By Charles Brown By the end of World War II, just about everyone had decided that the era of the ...
Melvin Johnson’s M1941 and M1944: America’s Best Light Machine Guns that the Army Failed to Adopt
By Jim Dickson After designing the M1941 semi-automatic rifle, Melvin Johnson set his sights on a light machine gun version ...
The Nazi’s Centrifugal Machine Gun Project
By Michael Heidler Successful inventors often have to think outside the box. In weapons technology, too, many a smirked-at pipe ...
Lebel Model 1886: the French Revolution of Service Rifles
by Pierangelo Tendas Designed in 1886 and adopted the following year by the French military, the Lebel Modèle 1886 has ...
Shooting the Japanese Type 14 8mm Nambu Pistol with Steinel Ammunition
By Jim Dickson The Nambu Type 14 was adopted in 1926 as the service pistol of the Imperial Japanese Army and served as its ...
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