The 40mm Day/Night/Thermal Program By Jay Bell Sometimes what appears to be a good idea is not as good as...

“Specialized weapons need specialized ammunition.” The term Next Generation can mean a lot of things. I recently wrote an article...

Computer-aided design, advanced metallurgy, polymer composites, material forming technology and propellant formulation enable today’s ammunition advances, and that subsequently drives...

MEL CARPENTERA few Dardick Trounds. It’s just not right. Someone should do something to stop the bullying. The U.S. government...

  TRUE VELOCITY INC. True Velocity's ammunition is over 30% lighter than conventional brass rounds. TV's proprietary design innovations reduce...

Comparison of traditional NATO ammo with smaller CTA rounds that are more powerful. The U.S. Army is on the hunt...

Photo credit: IAN MCCOLLUM/ARES INTRODUCTION Although Ethiopia has produced small-caliber ammunition for at least 60 years (and probably 90 or...

By Dan Shea June 21, 2019, in the Swiss Alps outside of Montreux: “Smoke on the Water” playing on the...

About a year ago, back in 2018, the Russian Ministry of Defense officially announced results of the “Ratnik” trials in...

The Tb 41 was a crew-serve weapon. Normally, it took seven men to set up the gun, but only one...

In terms of firearm product development, we live in exciting times. Computers, compact circuitry and manufacturing techniques have opened a...

The U.S. Military acquires millions of rounds of ammunition every year for everything from training to combat. Despite some performance...

The defense and sporting firearms communities are bombarded on a near daily basis with articles and advertisements promoting new “game...

In January 2014, various journalists, aid workers, and others have documented the presence of brass shotgun slugs in the streets...

Examining and trying to appreciate the latest greatest technology being promoted at the near countless booths at a show the...

Mesko, Poland’s leading ammunition manufacturer turns 90 this summer. From the beginning it was meant to provide the Polish Army...

One does not often think of shotguns as viable combat weapons and in the law enforcement arena, shotguns have lost...

Feedback from Afghanistan was clear – much small-arms combat was taking place at far greater distances than expected, a lot...

There are many manufacturers making ammunition as well as remanufacturing it. Few have a reputation of being precision ammunition manufacturers...

The name Hornady is well known throughout the industry.  Hornady is a much diversified company being involved in ammunition production,...

The origin of the company lies in the establishment by the Finnish government in 1923 of a cartridge factory in...

Law enforcement and military ammunition has come a long way in the last 20 years. Military ammunition, not so much...

The name Barnes is renowned in the firearms industry. It has been since its founding in 1932 by Fred Barnes....

Steyr Mannlicher is located in the town of Steyr in Austria. Josef Werndl founded the “Josef und Franz Werndl &...

The origin of RUAG Ammotec can be traced back to the Eidgenossische Munitionsfabrik established by the Swiss Confederation in Thun...

Over the last several years many new calibers have been introduced to the AR-type platform; from the .204 Ruger, 6.8mm...

In 2006, the U.S. Special Operations Command’s Special Operations & Technology (SOST) office tasked the Crane Division, Surface Warfare Center,...

5.56mm is the ammunition of the infantrymen who have used it for the combat at short distance since the war...

Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was founded in 1982 and was centered on Ronnie Barrett’s idea of a...

IWA OutdoorClassics is a massive yearly exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany that focuses on the latest gear for hunters, recreational shooters,...

For a compact assassination pistol, the Soviet PSS with its companion SP4 silent ammunition is a hard combination to beat....

The famous MAG-58 General Purpose Machine Gun has its roots in John Browning’s 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle: the BAR. FN...

The International Air and Defense Fair (FIDAE) that takes place in Chile every two years rebounded from the quake that...

In the 1950s Sierra Bullets introduced its MatchKing, a 168-grain .30 caliber (7.62mm) open tip bullet designed to maximize accuracy. ...

“…that’s going to require us to replace an awful lot of gear that’s been used very hard over the last...

The 10th International Defence Industry Fair (IDEF) was sponsored by the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation under the auspices of the...

The fifth bi-annual PARTNER Serbia show was held over the course of four sunny days in Belgrade, Serbia in late...

The City of Split, Croatia, was an excellent choice for a show in the region. The April weather is wonderful,...

LAAD Brazil has grown in leaps and bounds over the last decade and today it is a formidable contender as...

Urban warfare, snipers and insurgents are hiding in buildings and they will try to do devastating attacks on soldiers and...

By the time you read this, the XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement System with its uncannily accurate airburst ammo will...

The International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) of 2011 is a biannual show that has reached its 10th anniversary with...

6 November, 2011 - The Mount Merapi volcano was acting up about 450 kilometers from Jakarta, and many of us...

By the late 1980s, special operations elements of the Soviet Army, Internal Affairs Ministry and KGB were well equipped with...

Improving the combat effectiveness of rifle and machine gun ammunition in the light of recent combat experience was a strong...

Do we need a new service rifle cartridge?  Another way of asking this question is “Is there a problem with...

The conflict in Afghanistan, with its emphasis on targeting specific enemy individuals while avoiding collateral damage, features the use of...

To answer this question with a short answer, it is: No!  This article will discuss the benefits of the 5.56mm...

The fourth bi-annual Partner Serbia show was held over the course of four sunny days in Belgrade, Serbia in June...

With the addition of Romania to the European Union in 2007, the EU stretched from the North Sea to the...

The phone call from Carl Bertil Johansson in early summer 2009 came out of the blue.  The founder of the...

In the Global War on Terror, ammunition is a necessary commodity to fight a war.  Luckily, with good logistics and...

Winchester Ammunition is taking varmint hunting to a new level, using fragmenting copper core technology to incorporate a lead-free .223...

Many of us remember the finale in the 1965 movie Thunderball when James Bond and his allies battle Emilio Largo,...

Identifying all magazines, for all AK variants, would be of such a large magnitude that it would be completely impractical...

The Soviet Union and its current iteration, Russia, have long been known for innovative weapon development; only some of which...

A lot of readers and deployed troops have asked us about the “Potato Masher” type hand thrown grenade that has been...

The Soviet era design referred to generically now as the RPG-7 was the fruit of decades of design development in...

Little is known in the Western world of the Soviet silent pistols utilizing special silent ammunition. The package consists of...

We thought it appropriate to focus and profile one of the exhibitors at Partner 2008, and Kompanija Sloboda from Ĉaĉak,...

The US Army’s programmes for developing two different 25mm grenade launchers – the shoulder-fired XM25 from Alliant Techsystems and the...

Metal Storm is a radically different concept for weapons and ammunition, the brainchild of a self-educated Australian inventor with brilliant...

There has long been a requirement for a personal defence weapon, or PDW, for soldiers whose primary duty does not...