Have you ever wondered what it feels like live firing a full size mortar from the American Civil War? How it feels to pull the rope and send that 46 pound projectile downrange? Check this video. It is for you.

Webley made a variety of .22 rimfire revolvers and revolver conversions for most of its history. Rimfire conversions were used by the military for reduced-cost training, and they were popular on the civilian market for sport and competition shooting. When Webley introduced its MkIV small-frame re...

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The @steyr_arms AUG A3M2 is the latest iteration of the Austrian AUG. While the Australian AuSteyr had done significant modifications to the AU...

John Browning’s first machine gun design was a gas operated system that used a swinging lever instead of a linear piston. He presented the first prototype to Colt in 1890, and it went into production in 1895. The US Navy bought a couple hundred, but the Army opted not to adopt it (much to Colt’s ...

Friend of the channel Swiss fusiliser Brody has brought the Finnish SRA match concept to Switzerland! Organized within the confines of an officer's association, the match was organised on a military range but after cutting through some red tape and procuring the allowed gear, Chappy was fortunate...

In Part One, we uncovered the experimental .402 calibre Martini-Henry — the rifle that might have replaced the .450" service arm of the British Empire.

Now, in Part Two, Jonathan and Neil Aspinshaw (author of The Martini-Henry: For Queen and Empire) reveal how the story ends.

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I am often asked about what books someone interested in firearms should get. That's a really hard question to answer because most good books have a pretty narrow focus, but there are a few that ...

The Soviet Union decided to adopt a 50mm light mortar in 1937 as a company-level armament. The first such weapon they used was the RM-38, introduced in 1938. It was a complex design, with a gas venting system to adjust range (200m - 800m), a bipod specifically set to either 45 or 75 degrees, and ...

In early 1944, the Office of Strategic Services purchase 1,000 specialized pocketknives made by Schrade. Instead of regular blades and tools, these were lock picking knives, with one small blade, three different picks, and two rakes. Able to easily pass as a normal pocketknife on casual inspectio...

An examination of one of rarest of Bren accessories.

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense recently showcased a commercial truck mounted to fire a pair of Hellfire Missiles. The Taiwanese development is reminiscent of the commercial vans equipped with Hellfire-derived Brimstone missiles we've seen in Ukraine.

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EDIT: Please note that apparently the Priestel book I used as a major source for this video is partially incorrect, in that Pauly did create a traditional percussion system in France. The fire piston / diesel system was done slightly later after he moved to England, perhaps to avoid the Forsyth p...

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In this special episode, Jonathan is joined by Neil Aspinshaw, noted author of The Martini-Henry: For Queen and Empire, to explore the fascinating variants of the experimental .402" calibre Martini-Henry.

Why did the British Army shrink the calibre from .450" to .402"?
What problems were they tr...

SilencerCo announced the Maxim-9 pistol in late 2015. Having gone through some huge growth of the past few years, the company wanted to expand its capabilities and thought that the time was right for a modern integrally suppressed pistol. It was a unique new design of modern semiautomatic pistol ...

Troops from Ukraine's 28th Mechanized Brigade have shared photos of a unmanned ground vehicle (drone) with a shoulder-fired Igla-1 MANPADS mounted on it.

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Joseph-Célestin Dumonthier was one of the most notable and prolific gunsmiths in France specializing in combination guns. He made a variety of knife-guns and gun-knives large and small, as well as things like cane guns and occasionally even just regular guns. He initially worked in Houdan (about ...

Part 1 - In this video, the "flintlock smoothbore" carbine is examined and tested

Here's just Bloke and Les of @PegasusTests 's stages at Hätilä 2025. Unadulterated by our comments and blabla.

One of the classic "pick one" debates of World War Two is the German MP-40 versus the Soviet PPSh-41. During the war, both sides often opined that the other's SMG was better, so which really was? The MP-40 is more compact, with a smaller magazine but also a lower rate of fire. The PPSh is larger,...

The scouting concept exploded into the American culture after 1907, with a multitude of local, regional, and national organizations setting up in the years before World War One. Among these was the American Boy Scouts, founded by William Randolph Hearst. In 1913 they adopted the Remington 4-S as ...

When surplus rifles were cheap, they were the easiest rifles to "customize", "optimize", and "personalize"... but years later when we realize the true value within them, these "pioneers" are now branded as "BUBBA".

Bubba destroys historical rifles that we could have otherwise enjoyed today... b...

Meet the Beardmore-Farquhar, a British light machine gun design that promised to be lighter, cheaper, and more efficient than the famous Lewis Gun… but never made it into service.

In this week’s episode, Curatorial Assistant Joe takes us through its unusual gas-spring system, the trials it face...

The story of the Tec-9 begins with a Swedish company called Interdynamic AB and their designer Göran Lars Magnus Kjellgren designing a cheap and simple submachine gun for military use. It found no interested clients, and so the company decided to market it in the United States as a semiautomatic ...