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 ...
By Maxim Popenker Traditionally, bullpup configuration of the weapon means that its trigger and grip for a firing hand are located in front of the breech ...
Balanced action in automatic firearms can be traced back to pre-WW1 era, to various attempts to create low-recoil weapons. In these attempts, designers ...
Inertia operated systems are historically interesting because they first appeared in the early course of the development of automatic firearms; but then ...
Gas operated action, that is, automatic or self-loading gun systems that use the high pressure powder gases released by the exploding cartridge to cycle ...
Recoil is one of the earliest and most successful methods of operation for automatic firearms. It works for a surprisingly broad spectrum of weapons, from ...
In our previous article we discussed the simplest form of automatic gun action, known as “blowback”, or technically speaking, unlocked breech action. In ...
Simple Blowback Operated, Automatic Action: Generally speaking, firearms can be separated into two separate classes – manually operated or automatic. ...
Modern Firearms
This section contains articles about gun mechanics, history and other gun related items, written by the author of ths site and originally published in ...
Encyclopedia of firearms and ammunition of the XX and XXI centuries
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