The Beretta model 57 carbine was developed by famous Italian gun making company Beretta during late 1950s, mostly for export sales. It was broadly based on ...
The Textron / AAI NGSW-R assault rifle is being developed by AAI corporation, which is now part of the much larger Textron Systems Corporation, under ...
The MCX Spear assault rifle is being developed by American division of international SIG Sauer gun making company under NGSW-R – “Next Generation Squad ...
The GD RM277 assault rifle is being developed by a consortium of companies, led by American industrial giant General Dynamics for the NGSW-R “Next ...
I have held a lifelong interest in firearms. For me, this began at age of about 8, when I got my first illustrated book about guns, written and drawn by ...
The Samopal vzor 1958 (submachine gun, model of 1958) was the standard assault rifle of the Czechoslovak army from the late 1950s and until the dissolution ...
Heckler-Koch HK 512 semi-automatic shotgun was produced during 1970s and 1980s by famous German company Heckler und Koch primary for German military and ...
Franchi LAW-12 semi-automatic shotgun was designed by Italian gun making company Luigi Franchi Spa during early 1980s as a less expensive and lighter ...
The Vapensmia NM149 sniper rifle was adopted by Norvegian army in 1985 and served until about 2013, when it was officially replaced by German-made ...
The Dragunov MA compact assault rifle is an experimental weapon, developed circa 1979 in Izhevsk by Evgenij Dragunov, who is best known for designing the ...
By Maxim Popenker The “new age of bullpup rifles” began in late ninety seventies, when two major European militaries officially adopted new 5.56mm assault ...
By Maxim Popenker This article is about history of bullpup evolution from the end of WW2 and until early 1970s, stopping just before adoption ...
Encyclopedia of firearms and ammunition of the XX and XXI centuries
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