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8 records found on category [Small Arms]
Kalashnikov assault rifles by Sakhal
In 1944 the Germans introduced a rifle calibrated for a new cartridge of lesser power, capable of being fired in full automatic mode. This "assault rifle" very soon proved to be superior to any previous design and after the war the British and the Soviet ...
[ Date: 2017-12-20 | Length: 19 Kb | Update: 2017-12-20 ]
In 1944 the Germans introduced a rifle calibrated for a new cartridge of lesser power, capable of being fired in full automatic mode. This "assault rifle" very soon proved to be superior to any previous design and after the war the British and the Soviet ...
[ Date: 2017-12-20 | Length: 19 Kb | Update: 2017-12-20 ]
History of light weapons by Sakhal
From the stone to the most elaborate steels, the evolution of weapons is a path marked by some of the most representative milestones of technology. Stone Age Either for hunting, defense or attack, the human being has always used weapons. During the Lo...
[ Date: 2017-12-15 | Length: 16 Kb | Update: Never ]
From the stone to the most elaborate steels, the evolution of weapons is a path marked by some of the most representative milestones of technology. Stone Age Either for hunting, defense or attack, the human being has always used weapons. During the Lo...
[ Date: 2017-12-15 | Length: 16 Kb | Update: Never ]
M16 assault rifle by Sakhal
The M16 was initially produced as a private initiative of the company Armalite. Lightweight, manageable and practically without any recoil, it was effective at real combat distances. Since then it has been the ordnance rifle of the United States Army ...
[ Date: 2016-10-15 | Length: 16 Kb | Update: Never ]
The M16 was initially produced as a private initiative of the company Armalite. Lightweight, manageable and practically without any recoil, it was effective at real combat distances. Since then it has been the ordnance rifle of the United States Army ...
[ Date: 2016-10-15 | Length: 16 Kb | Update: Never ]
The military utilization of shotguns by Sakhal
Shotguns have demonstrated their effectiveness as military weapons in close combat, assaults to trenches, urban combat, dense forests and guard duties. Still, few were the models declared as reglamentary by the armed forces in general since it was har...
[ Date: 2015-02-01 | Length: 22 Kb | Update: Never ]
Shotguns have demonstrated their effectiveness as military weapons in close combat, assaults to trenches, urban combat, dense forests and guard duties. Still, few were the models declared as reglamentary by the armed forces in general since it was har...
[ Date: 2015-02-01 | Length: 22 Kb | Update: Never ]
Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifle by Sakhal
Historical background Already during the First World War, Germany, through the Gewehre Prufungs Kommission (Rifle Evaluation Committee), a tactical-technical organization of the Army whose purpose was to evaluate the behavior and prestations of the p...
[ Date: 2015-01-30 | Length: 23 Kb | Update: Never ]
Historical background Already during the First World War, Germany, through the Gewehre Prufungs Kommission (Rifle Evaluation Committee), a tactical-technical organization of the Army whose purpose was to evaluate the behavior and prestations of the p...
[ Date: 2015-01-30 | Length: 23 Kb | Update: Never ]
The infantry of the 21st century by Sakhal
During the mid 1990s, in a conference in the French military polygon at Satory, not far from Versailles, were given the guidelines for what should be the infantry of the 21st century. A combatant - not necessarily a man, seeing the progressive incorpo...
[ Date: 2014-12-11 | Length: 10 Kb | Update: Never ]
During the mid 1990s, in a conference in the French military polygon at Satory, not far from Versailles, were given the guidelines for what should be the infantry of the 21st century. A combatant - not necessarily a man, seeing the progressive incorpo...
[ Date: 2014-12-11 | Length: 10 Kb | Update: Never ]
The first bolt action rifles by Sakhal
From the mid to the late 19th century the methods for attack and defense suffered a deep change. Warlike development ran parallel with industrial development, and this one suffered such acceleration that it would represent almost a vertical line in a ...
[ Date: 2014-10-13 | Length: 6 Kb | Update: Never ]
From the mid to the late 19th century the methods for attack and defense suffered a deep change. Warlike development ran parallel with industrial development, and this one suffered such acceleration that it would represent almost a vertical line in a ...
[ Date: 2014-10-13 | Length: 6 Kb | Update: Never ]
The Borchardt pistols by Sakhal
Introduction Circa 1850 started the production of the first metallic cartridges, either of annular or central percussion. The immediate consequence was the design of the first breech-loading revolvers, but forty years had to pass until the main advan...
[ Date: 2014-10-12 | Length: 12 Kb | Update: 2015-05-20 ]
Introduction Circa 1850 started the production of the first metallic cartridges, either of annular or central percussion. The immediate consequence was the design of the first breech-loading revolvers, but forty years had to pass until the main advan...
[ Date: 2014-10-12 | Length: 12 Kb | Update: 2015-05-20 ]