The SIG Sauer P228 is a semiautomatic pistol designed and produced by the Swiss company Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (currently by the Swiss Arms) in collaboration with the German Sauer. This is the compact version of the SIG Sauer P226. the calib...

The Winchester Model 1895 is an American lever-action repeating firearm developed and manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the late 19th century, chambered for a number of full-size military and hunting cartridges such as 7.62×54mmR, .3...

The PP Bizon (Pistolet Pulemyot Bizon) (English: Bison) is a 9mm submachine gun developed in 1993 at Izhmash by a team of engineers headed by Victor Kalashnikov (son of engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov, creator of the AK-47 and AK-74). Alexei Dragunov, younges...

The PB (Russian: Пистолет Бесшумный, romanized: Pistolet Besshumnyy, lit. 'Pistol Silent', English: Silent Pistol; GRAU index 6P9) is a Soviet integrally suppressed semi-automatic pistol developed and manufactured by Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, based on the ...

The Ultimax 100 is a Singapore-made 5.56mm light machine gun, developed by the Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS, now ST Kinetics) by a team of engineers under the guidance of American firearms designer L. James Sullivan. The weapon is extremely accur...

The Uzi (Hebrew: עוזי‎, officially cased as UZI) is a family of Israeli open-bolt, blowback-operated submachine guns. Smaller variants are often considered to be machine pistols. The Uzi was one of the first weapons to use a telescoping bolt design which a...

After World War II, the Swiss Army looked into adopting a modern assault rifle to replace the bolt-action K31. SIG, having failed to gain a military contract with their semi-automatic SK46, attempted to meet the Army's requirements by designing a selective...

The ArmaLite AR-18 is a gas-operated assault rifle chambered for 5.56×45mm NATO ammunition. The AR-18 was designed at ArmaLite in California by Arthur Miller, Eugene Stoner, George Sullivan, and Charles Dorchester in 1963 as an alternative to the ArmaLite ...

The Kulsprutepistol m/45 (Kpist m/45), also known as the Carl Gustaf M/45 and the Swedish K SMG, is a 9×19mm Swedish submachine gun (SMG) designed by Gunnar Johnsson, adopted in 1945 (hence the m/45 designation), and manufactured at the Carl Gustafs Stads ...

The Beretta AR70/90 is a gas operated rifle chambered for the 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge, and is the standard issue service rifle of the Italian Armed Forces. The weapon is also designed to be fitted with a rifle grenade, and has grenade sights. The AR serie...

The vz. 58 (model 58) is a 7.62×39mm rifle designed and manufactured in Czechoslovakia and accepted into service in the late 1950s as the 7,62 mm samopal vzor 58 ("7.62mm submachine gun model 1958"), replacing the vz. 52 self-loading rifle and the 7.62×25m...

HK MP5K: In 1976 a shortened version of the MP5A2 was introduced; the MP5K(K from the German word Kurz = "short") was designed for close quarters battle use by clandestine operations and special services. The MP5K does not have a shoulder stock (the receiv...

The M249 SAW light machine gun was developed by the famous Belgian company FN Herstal, in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s as the FN Minimi. Mass production began in 1982 in Belgium, and at about the same time it has been adopted by the US Armed forces as ...

The DShK 1938 (ДШК, for Дегтярёва-Шпагина Крупнокалиберный, Degtyaryova-Shpagina Krupnokaliberny, "Degtyaryov-Shpagin Large-Calibre") is a Soviet heavy machine gun with a V-shaped "butterfly" trigger, firing the 12.7×108mm cartridge. The weapon was also us...

new package recreated for the hk 416 and the new hk 417 "small corrections hk416 and "normal maps fixed" HK416: Following the revision of the OICW Block 1/XM8 program, the Heckler & Koch company decided to enter the US military and law enforcement markets ...

The famous Italian arms-making company Beretta developed and manufactured a variety of submachine guns since the end of WW1. During the early 1950’s, recognizing the need for a compact submachine gun, Beretta initiated a series of developments. These start...

The Frommer Stop is a Hungarian long-recoil, rotating bolt pistol manufactured by Fémáru, Fegyver és Gépgyár (FÉG) (Metalware, Weapons and Machine Factory) in Budapest. It was designed by Rudolf Frommer, and its original design was adopted as the Pisztoly ...

History and Technical Description: The OTs-14 Groza (ОЦ-14 "Гроза") is a Russian selective fire bullpup assault rifle chambered for the 7.62×39 round and the 9×39mm subsonic round. It was developed in the 1990s at the TsKIB SOO (Central Design and Research...

History and Technical Description: MAT-49 submachine gun was developed at the French state arms factory MAT (Manufacture Nationale d'Armes de Tulle) in the late 1940s, and was adopted by the Armee de Terre (French Army) in 1949. First batches were delivere...