The current version of the GAU-5A Aircrew Self Defense Weapon was adopted by the US Air Force in 2018, to provide their combat pilots with a defensive ...
The M14 rifle was officially adopted by the US military in 1957 and was replaced in service as a primary infantrymen’s rifle in 1967, making it the ...
The Korobov TKB-072 experimental assault rifle was developed by a talented Russian gun designer German Korobov, who worked at the Central Design Bureau for ...
The M4 carbine was developed by the famous Colt company on request from the US Armed forces, as a shortened version of a then-new M16A2 rifle. It was ...
The Kalashnikov AKS-74U compact assault rifle, colloquially known in the West as the “Krink” or “Krinkov” was officially adopted by the Soviet army in 1978 ...
The Kalashnikov AK-74 assault rifle was officially adopted by the Soviet army in 1974. However, its development traces its roots to 1960, when Soviet ...
The Armalite AR-10 rifle was designed in USA between 1954 and 1956 as a military rifle, using advanced aircraft industry materials and technologies, ...
The story of the M16 rifle is one of the most turbulent and controversial episodes in the whole history of US small arms. It was hastily adopted as ...
The MSBS Grot assault rifle (formerly also known as MSBS Radon modular weapon system) is an indigenous development of Polish Military Technical Academy ...
The QBZ-191 assault rifle family has been officially announced in 2019 during the PLA parade. By 2021, some of 1st line units in PLA are already armed with ...
The Kalashnikov AKM assault rifle (Автомат Калашникова Модернизированный – Avtomat Kalashnikova Modernized) was adopted by the Soviet army in 1959. ...
The Avtomat Kalashnikov AK (автомат Калашникова), colloquially known in the West as the Kalashnikov AK-47, was one of the results of Soviet intermediate ...
Encyclopedia of firearms and ammunition of the XX and XXI centuries
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