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

Despite their diminutive size, pistols still are important military firearms, and they are even more important as law enforcement weapons. ...

ABOVE: Infantry rifle should perform adequately on any possible terrain, but some current battlefields overstretch the capabilities of weapons that ...

ABOVE: T-5000 with night vision adapter. Until recently, Russian small arms were famous mostly for their ruggedness, durability and reliability, ...

Up until the 1960s all machine guns manufactured in China were of foreign design. The first heavy machine gun to ...

Up until the 1960s, all machine guns manufactured in China were of foreign design. Earliest of these were well known ...

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

Over the last several decades, counter-terrorism operations became very important for most ‘civilized world’ law enforcement organizations.  Increased terrorism threats ...

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

As discussed in previous articles on the subject, Soviet Army Spetsnaz troops and specialized KGB personnel (which acted both in ...