Many years before WWII started, small arms designers of the world noted that in the real world the power of...

Early last June 2012, news from Paraguay indicated that 321 police agents had been dispatched to Curuguaty. The police officers,...

The first edition was published in 2008 and takes the reader through the development of the assault rifle, manufacturers in...

DSEI is the largest fully integrated defense and security show in the world, featuring Air, Naval, Land and Security show...

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

In his 1922 book, Story of the North West Frontier Province, author JM Ewart writes: “That gap in the low...

Today’s ground forces are preparing for tomorrow’s demanding missions in which combat strategies and tactics must be seamlessly implemented –...

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

The Global War on Terrorism has put to the test many new weapon systems adopted in the post Cold War...

ABOVE: We first spotted this polymer and brass .50 caliber BMG ammo at MARCORSYSCOM’s display at MDM way back in...

The Galil, the first IDF assault rifle, has been completely redesigned by IWI engineers developing a version that incorporates a...

The Russians still say that the 65 year old Avtomat Kalashnikova would soldier on for decades, yet they are painfully...

Recently there has been an upswing in interest regarding the weapons of North Korea.  This is due not only to...

Col. Lewis was a United States Military Academy (West Point) graduate (1884) and spent twenty-five years in the United States...

It was clear that the EF88 is significantly better than its predecessors, and exhibits all of the traits of a...

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

One day in November 2010, the battle to get Antonio Ezekiel Cárdenas Guillén, one of the most feared and wanted...

At the 2012 SHOT Show, ArmaLite introduced their new and long anticipated AR-10A family of rifles. This is an AR-10...

Since 2005, the Afghan Uniformed Police (AUP) have been providing a paramilitary force capable of stabilizing reconstruction efforts and will...

Choosing the name of the most popular home video cassette system for your nation’s rifle might not have been intentional,...

There’s nothing else like it in any of the other branches of America’s Armed Forces.  Its uniquely lethal products, the...

Debuting in 1982, Glock has revolutionized the foundation on which military and law enforcement handguns sit.  Glock pistols not only...

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

Friends and foes of the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon in the U.S. Marine Corps’ infantry fire teams have been engaged...

This story begins in 1925.  That year the Red Army requested the development of a large caliber machine gun with...

Sweden was not shy in their attempt to modernize their army at the turn of the twentieth century by equipping...

For the past several years SADJ has been following progress of the US Marine Corps’ program to identify and field...

To appreciate the complexity of situations where police or military forces charged with peacekeeping duties utilize force, one must conceptualize...