Machinegun

The US Army Contracting Command issued a special notice regarding the procurement of commercially available off-the-shelf Sub Compact Weapons (SCW) in 9x19mm. Ten weapons are in the running.

Finally, the civilian version of the famous SAIGA-9 "Vityaz" is available on the market. The Russian submachine gun – in semi-auto only – is available in two barrel lengths and with fixed or folding stock. It’s chambered in 9x19 caliber (9 Luger).

We had been hearing about it for a few months and finally at the Milipol, in Paris, Beretta showed a preview of its new 9mm PMX machine gun that will replace the glorious PM12 whose production began back in 1961.

The C6A1 FLEX will replace all the decades-old C6s (the Canadian version of the FB MAG 58) still in use. The Canadian government will purchase 1148 weapons.

The international exhibition “Army 2016” took place between September 6th and 11th, 2016, in a Moscow suburb Kubinka. “Kalashnikov” concern, leading Russian manufacturer of small arms for military, law enforcement and civilian markets showcased several new military small arms.

Automatic or self-loading firearms systems that use high pressure gas to cycle the action after each shot are quite old. However, their maturity period was noticeably longer than the period of other successful automatic gun actions using recoil impulse to cycle the gun

The third installment of the series of articles by Russian expert Maxim Popenker explores another successful operating principle for autoloading firearms

In the second installment of his latest series of articles, Russian expert Maxim Popenker explores the principles behind delayed blowback operation

In what is once again the first of a series of articles, Russian expert Maxim Popenker shines some light around the most common gun automatics – starting with the simplest of all

IWA 2016 / New from Czech Small Arms: a semi-automatic .22 Long Rifle variant of the legendary Vz.61 Škorpion is on its way    

IWA 2016 / New from Tanfoglio at the EnforceTac expo is an innovative product line specifically dedicated to MIL/LE customers

Following the global success of the AF1 “Strike One”, Arsenal Firearms proudly presents the AF1-R Strike AUTO, a selective fire, 1200 Rpm+ capable, lowest bore axis automatic pistol

In this second article, Russian expert Maxim Popenker talks belt-feeding systems for automatic weapons

In the first of two articles, Maxim Popenker offers us a treatise on feeding systems conceived for full-automatic firearms − starting with high-capacity magazines