Volume 12

SMITH & WESSON M&P M.A.G.I.C.® Assisted Opening Liner Lock Folding Knife Smith & Wesson® Large M&P® M.A.G.I.C.® Assisted Opening Liner...

A Bolt-Action Variant for Every Use and Taste By Oleg Volk The Mossberg MVP line of rifles was introduced in 2012....

New Iranian Shoulder-Fired Multipurpose Weapon Exhibited By Yuri Lyamin On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution...

Ernest Langdon’s 3-Day Advanced Pistol Skills Class By Alton P. Chiu Since attending the analytically driven 2-Day Tactical Pistols Skills...

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

CS/LS06 “Chang Feng” Submachine Gun By N.R. Jenzen-Jones The Chang Feng submachine gun (SMG)—known in its latest iteration as the...

Advance Weapons Technology Offers 1,000-Yard Class By John Bibby I have been very interested in long-range shooting for quite some...

Expodefensa: A Hub Linking North and South America By Julio A. Montes Expodefensa was held for the first time in...

The Czech assault rifle officially named “7.62mm Samopal vz. 58” (7.62mm model 58 submachine gun) has recently celebrated 60 years...

By Kristóf Nagy Introduction The Hungarian-developed and -produced 42M hand grenade and the later 42/48M variant became the primary weapon...

Cold War Conflicts and ‘Brushfire Wars’ 1970s–1980s By Robert Bruce In the course of decades of researching various sources including...

ATN CORP ThOR 4  The ThOR 4 is ATN’s flagship thermal rifle scope for hunting. Packed with upgrades and new...

Rheinmetall Canada Chooses ELSAT-2100 Elbit Systems Ltd. to Supply Satellite On-the-Move Systems to Canadian Armed Forces Elbit Systems Ltd. announced...

STEINEL AMMUNITION                            9mm Subcompact Carry Ammo The Steinel 9mm Subcompact Carry load is perfectly suitable for any 9mm, regardless of...

How Multiple Machine Gun Mounts Shaped Wars in Latin America By Julio A. Montes As they overflew the Swan Islands,...

Companies Vie for Semi-Auto Pistol and Sniper Rifle Contracts By Jean Huon  Via a message dated January 6, 2020, the...

The AlmaDK company comes from Kazakhstan and makes ammunition and tear gas grenades. AlmaDK offers a few non-lethal cartridges:• 9x18...

BY DAVID PAZDERA The Model 52 (also known as Vz. 52) self-loading rifle, calibre 7.62x45mm, is perceived by contemporary collectors...

By Linda M. Gilbertson Sometimes it is best to train in shooting alone. It allows you to focus on what...

IMI SYSTEMS PROVIDES TANK AMMO TO FINNISH ARMY In January 2020, Elbit Systems announced that its subsidiary, IMI Systems was...

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) had depended upon its F88 5.56mm rifle—a Thales Australian-built variant of the Austeyr or Steyr...

TEAM WENDY CloudLine™ System Team Wendy® announced the immediate availability of the CloudLine™ System, a new drop-in helmet liner designed...

The MCR When ARES Defense Systems first came up with the Shrike belt-fed AR-15 upper, the so-called Assault Weapons Ban...

Faithful readers of this column are well aware of the on-going efforts to modernize and streamline the current procedures for...

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

In the course of decades of research in various military and museum archives, Robert Bruce has acquired a treasure trove...

Italy’s Show of Shows Huge selection of European military uniforms. Located in Milan, Italy, and held twice a year in...

CLOSE COMBAT SYMPOSIUM The 2019 Close Combat Symposium (CCS) was held at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (UK)...

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

Whilst employed less frequently than the other types of small arms and light weapons covered in this series, grenade launchers...

The Toophan-3 is a recent addition to the family of anti-tank missiles that grew out of licensed TOW production in...

In the course of decades of research in various military and museum archives, Robert Bruce has acquired a treasure trove...

27-30 April 2020, Columbus, GA Advancing Combat Lethality Recently the influential and well-known NDIA Small Arms Symposium combined with some...

SIG SAUER’s Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) encompasses a complete system consisting of SIG’s unique 6.8mm hybrid (bi-metal) ammunition, a...

THE PORTUGUESE ARMY FINDS COMBAT COMFORT IN FN SCAR The Portuguese Army, after decades of struggling to get a new...

OSHKOSH DEFENSE JOINT LIGHT TACTICAL VEHICLE WITH REMOTE WEAPON STATION NORTHROP GRUMMAN–ARMAMENT SYSTEMS The Oshkosh JLTV with the KONGSBERG RWS...

Turning a barrel, circa 1943. Variables, Tolerances and Economics All too often, someone buys a firearm because someone else already...

Author Dean Roxby using the Nikon Black RangeX 4K Laser Rangefinder. When laser rangefinders (LRFs) first appeared on the civilian...

Completed Bizon build. The collapse of the Soviet Union plunged the new Russian state into chaos, plagued by organized crime...

Model 1890 Colt Gatling gun on typical infantry wheeled field carriage. (Courtesy Rock Island Auction Company) State-of-the-Art Weaponary Machine guns...

U.S. ARMY ADOPTS B.E. MEYERS & CO. BOARS-M2 OPTICS MOUNT B.E. Meyers & Co., Inc., announced that the BOARS®-M2 optics...

ALIEN GEAR Rapid Force Duty Holster Alien Gear Holsters, the top-selling, award winning and most trusted American-made brand for civilian...

American soldiers in WWI—a few are wearing “experimental” helmets that were designed to provide better production than the British-design MK...

6. The compact 3.8-inch polymer frame Jericho is an excellent defensive pistol for easy carry. IWI makes superb fighting pistols—the...

The XM17 Modular Handgun System The P320-M17 is available with standard 17-round magazines, but factory 22-round versions are also available....

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

Military optics have matured quite a great deal in the 100 years since the First World War. While military optics...

Adjustable length dual struts with Gear Head Tailhook braces. The Stribog SP9A1 9mm submachine gun and its carbine and pistol...

Special Thanks to S&T Motiv and Model Major (Reserve) Hyungchul Moon Major Moon, a Reserve Korean Army Officer and military...

ADEX 2019 was held at Seoul airport from 15 to 20 October. This airport is in fact a military air...

  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...

Main entrance to the Patriot Park exposition centre on what proved to be a wet and windy show for those...

Perhaps one of the more elusive Dragunov clones in recent small arms history, the 7.62x54mmR Al-Kadesiah precision rifle is one...

IWI US has an excellent reputation for producing efficient “all business” weapon designs. “Hell and back” reliability is a hallmark...

In the course of decades of research in various military and museum archives, Robert Bruce has acquired a treasure trove...

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

According to its press release, in 2020 the U.S. Army plans to have soldiers fire at targets using remote-controlled robotic vehicles as...

FN HERSTAL FN Expert Marksmanship Training System FN has released the new FN® Expert marksmanship training software. Even more intuitive,...