The .38 ACP cartridge, is an American round designed by legendary arms inventor John Browning. It is also known as .38 Automatic. Its metric ...
12 gauge shotgun shells are by far the most preferred type of ammunition for all smoothbore gun applications, such as hunting, sport shooting, home ...
The .357 Magnum (9x32R) cartridge was created in USA circa 1935 as a joint effort between Smith & Wesson and Remington to produce a more ...
The 7.9×94 cartridge was developed in Germany during late 1930s for use in anti-tank rifles, loaded with relatively heavy (for its caliber) and fast ...
Developed by the famous American company Smith & Wesson, the .38 S&W revolver cartridge was introduced in 1877. During the following decades ...
Developed in Germany circa 1906 by Mauser and DWM, this round was originally chambered in a series of experimental Mauser self-loading pistols, most ...
The 8×22 Nambu cartridge was introduced in Japan in 1904, and served as a standard issue handgun and submachine gun round of Japanese armed forces ...
The 15×106 cartridge was developed in mid-1930s by Skoda factory in Czechoslovakia, for the proposed new heavy machine gun manufactured by ZB factory ...
The 13.2mm Hotchkiss cartridge was developed in France during late 1920s especially for the new heavy machine guns. It was adopted by French army in 1930 ...
This formidable cartridge was developed in USSR shortly before WW2 for use in antitant rifles. While those rifles became obsolete by the 1942, it was ...
The 12.7×108 cartridge was developed in USSR by early 1930s especially for the new heavy machine guns, to be used in ground support and AA roles, and ...
The .50 BMG (12.7x99mm Browning Machine Gun) cartridge is arguably the most sucessful round in its class. Orginally developed in 1918-1920 as a ...
Encyclopedia of firearms and ammunition of the XX and XXI centuries
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