Volume 5

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

The only military trade show in Taiwan, the Taiwan Aerospace and Defense Technology Exposition was held from August 15 –...

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...

Alphonse William Vallerand was an American veteran of the Korean War, and a quiet giant in the Class III collector...

The speed at which the United States geared up for World War II in the days after Pearl Harbor must...

Maneuvering with pinpoint accuracy and efficiency at night as well as in daytime requires situational awareness, target classification and target...

The corporate symbol for Sirarms rifles is the halberd; a two-handed pole weapon (5 to 6 feet long) that consists...

In the early 1980s a requirement came down from the U.S. Army for a new pistol that would replace the...

In 1939, just a month after the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland in September, the Soviet Red Army invaded Finland....

The M203 grenade launcher has been in continuous service since 1968. It was developed during the Vietnam War to get...

During the 12 long years of brutal and bloody internal conflict in the 1980s, military correspondents mentioned the Salvadorian Maestranza...

On April 24-25, 2013 the Fourth Rheinmetall Infantry Symposium was held in Unterlüß, Lower Saxony, Germany. Once again it was...

Eurosatory – the largest military and small arms defense show in Europe opened June 11 – 15, 2012 to exhibitors...

The project to replace the current M4 Carbine, the Army’s standard infantry rifle, started in 2011 with a request for...

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) returned to China’s bosom on 1 July 1997. As troops of the People’s...

In the movies, the scary music always gets louder just before they go around the blind corner.  For operators, worrying...

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,...

There are many hundreds of vehicles across the world in international peace making/peace keeping operations that are not equipped with...

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

At SHOT Show 2010, SIG showed their new Model 516 and 716 rifles to the industry. The 516, a short...

In December of 2012, the Korean company S&T Motive received a contract with South Korean DAPA (Defense Acquisition and Purchase...

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

Negrini srl and International Case Company are introducing the Tactica Concealed Carry line of lightweight travel and security cases dedicated...

Classification: (noun) A way or condition of being arranged.  The act of putting into classes.  A subdivision of a larger...

Oregon State Police (OSP) Sergeant Tyler Lee reports that on January 4, 2013 at approximately 9:13 p.m., a 1984 Toyota...

“May you live in interesting times…” supposedly a Chinese curse, the U.S. arms export trade is currently facing unprecedented challenges...

Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. reported that third-quarter sales were up 39 percent compared to the same period last year. ...

The George M. Chinn Award is presented annually to honor a government or industry individual who, in the opinion of...

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...

On October 17-19, 2012, the Future Soldier Exhibition & Conference (FSEC) took place at the Letňany exhibition centre in Prague. ...

The see-saw battle of armor protection versus armament has been going on since the first wooden shield deflected a bone...

At the beginning of 1938, the Erfurter Maschinenfabrik (ERMA) received an official order for the development a new submachine gun...

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...

This was the fifth year in a row that the ISDEF show was put on in Tel Aviv.  It shows...

During our last visit, we were able to see the newest offerings from the ST Kinetics Small Arms Division.  The...

International Defence Exhibition Bratislava is organized every two years in Bratislava, the capital of Slovak Republic.  Under the auspices of...

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

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

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...

As a rising superpower, China has entered the arms trade show circuit since 2002.  The sixth Asia Pacific China Police...

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...