Book review
Russian Hand-to-Hand Combat Manual
It has come to our attention that our friend Boris Karpa – who helped us out translating a batch of test reports on the Dror LMG – has released his first work on Amazon. It’s […]
Russia
Anti-Tank Rifles
Vintage Saturday: PTRD-41 in Russia
“Fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is ‘Never get involved in a land war in Asia.’” I think the other was “Don’t count on an anti-tank rifle to […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: Shivering with an AVS-36
Invading Russian never goes well, for any of the parties involved. These two certainly don’t look they’re having such a good time.
Semiauto Rifles
Russian AVS-36 Rifle
Russia (or the USSR, for these purposes) had an early self-loading rifle in the 1916 Federov, but it was not a satisfactory combat weapons, for several reasons. The Soviet military held a number of trials […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: Russian 1910 Maxim
Ah, the Sokolov mount. Designed, I have no doubt, when the leading medical studies urged you to lift with your back instead of your legs.
Semiauto Rifles
Fedorov – The First Assault Rifle?
Today we have a couple more galleries of Russian Fedorov rifles, both from Russian museums. One set comes to us from our friend Hrachya, and the other is courtesy of DishModels.ru. The Fedorov is interesting […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday – Russian Partisans with a Maxim
I don’t envy that kid having to fire that M38…
Semiauto Rifles
Russian APS Underwater Assault Rifle
Today we have a manual for the Russian APS underwater assault rifle, thanks to our friend Hrachya. The APS (Avtomat Podvodnyj Spetsialnyj) was developed in the early 1970s as a way to provide greater firepower […]
Machine pistol
Stechkin APS photos
The Stechkin APS was available with a collapsing stock and suppressor, for extra-sneaky uses. Thanks to Max Popenker, we have a couple photos of the combo: These and a couple more are available on the […]
Light MGs
Construction of Automatic Weapons
From our friend Hrachya, we have a very cool book for you today. Titled Construction of Automatic Weapons, it was printed in Russia in 1933, and consists of line drawings of all the major machine […]