ABOVE: Norbert Piechota of FB Radom demonstrates the MSBS-5.56B rifle. Note the steadiness of the weapon in full-auto firing: two ...

ABOVE: Desert Tech of Salt Lake City, Utah, displayed their new bull-pup rifle, the dual-caliber (.308 and .223) modular Micro ...

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

Almost lost in a sea of plastic-fantastic new-wave “museums of idea, not objects” resplendent in touch-screens and 3D displays, but ...

At this year’s 21st International Defence Industry Exhibition (MSPO is an acronym from Polish name of the fair: Międzynarodowy Salon ...

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

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

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

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

The world’s first real heavy machine gun appeared during World War I, although big-bore machine guns were by no means ...

The XIX MSPO (which is the Polish abbreviation for “International Defence Industry Exhibition”) was held in Kielce, September 5-8, 2011.  ...

The end of the first decade of the new millennium saw Czechs and Slovaks as the Last of Mohicans in ...

Bumar is now a household name in Poland and one in circulation for over 55 years. But it was only ...

Designing “Future Soldiers” space-age suits of armor with TV and other creature comforts has been a popular fad since 1950s, ...

Entering NATO made the Polish Army face an uneasy choice of new armament, poised to function under totally different strategic, ...

The XVIII International Defense Industry Exhibition MSPO 2010, in Kielce, Poland, September 6-9, 2010, has confirmed the MSPO as one ...

In the early 1970s, most submachine guns still in use with the armies of the world were replaced by assault ...

The Blyskawica (‘Lightning’, pronounced bwiskavitsa, with ‘wi’ to be read like in ‘wisdom’) was designed and manufactured fully clandestine, for ...

Between August 31 and September 3, the Targi Kielce fairground in Poland hosted the 17th International Defense Industry Fair MSPO ...

The SSG 08 is a new marksman bolt-action rifle intended to replace the aging Austrian sniper legend Scharfschützengewehr 69, or ...

The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time of change for Poland; shaking-off the results of 45 years of ...