Fedorov manual
Ok, just one more Fedorov post before we turn to other things. Thanks to the generosity of Max Popenker, we have a copy of a 1928 original Fedorov manual for you. It’s in Russian, of […]
Ok, just one more Fedorov post before we turn to other things. Thanks to the generosity of Max Popenker, we have a copy of a 1928 original Fedorov manual for you. It’s in Russian, of […]
Before we leave the Fedorov, I would like to take a moment to address a common misconception – the Fedorov did not use MG13 magazines. The two designs certainly are very similar, but they are […]
Today, we have for you an original manual for the Winchester Light Rifle in .224 Winchester E2. This was a rifle in competition with the early AR-15 to replace the M-14 in US military service. […]
I don’t know much about this beyond the name. We have four photographs from the US Ordnance Department dated from 1937 identifying this as a Johnston (not Johnson – note the “t”) Model D-1918 machine […]
Continuing in our series of Soviet weapons manuals, today we have added a 1962 DTM manual to the Original Manuals page of the Vault. The DTM was the tank variant of the modernized Degtyarev (DP) […]
So, who can tell me what all of these weapons are? And what they have in common? Continue on for details…
Not all interesting and obscure guns are a century old – there are plenty of guns in common use today that are not well known. One such gun is the Howa Type 89. It is […]
So, let us pretend we are 1940s British ordnance officers, and we need more automatic rifles. What are we to do? There is so much war material that needs to be produced, and we have […]
Today’s update is the original manual for the Bang automatic rifle – the gun that was the basis for the original Garand rifle design. The Bang rifle impressed US ordnance officers when it was first […]
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