The TKB-059 provided "near minigun" performance but was also to be suitable for a soldier to handle. It uses the 7.62×39mm M43 round but the ammo supply was limited as the weapon is magazine-fed... In addition, cartridge ejection is downwards and positioned behind the magazine area. Each barrel of the weapon fired independently...
William McCarty patented this turret revolver design in 1909... with the idea of making a high capacity revolver. His gun held 18 rounds of .22 rimfire ammunition – double the typical .22 revolver capacity. He did that by making a vertical turret system with a large ring to hold the 18 rounds, which in turn made the gun pretty...
Dueling pistols broadly lacked rifling but this English one had a unique hidden form of rifling called 'French Rifling'. The idea was during a duel the pistols would be inspected for rifling to ensure neither side was cheating. But French rifling wouldn't be seen, allowing one party an unfair advantage....
During the World War 1 the British started a propaganda campaign concentrating on the German use of the sawback bayonet as another "act of frightfulness by the bestial Hun" and claimed their use to be a war crime as they believed they would leave horrific wounds....
This Victorian defense would have been worn facing backwards so that its wearer could retaliate against an attacker who had snuck behind them with a garrote. It would have been fired by pulling the lever at the bottom with an attached string and toggle....
In the early 1960s, an influential but little-known (today) firearms designer by the name of Robert Hillberg came up with an idea for a cheap-but-effective armament for the masses. With encouragement from DARPA, the Winchester company took up manufacture and development of the design, under the name “Liberator”....
The halls of the fort saw the French defending German assaults firing off machineguns, grenades, and flamethrowers. Ultimately the French were forced to surrender after men became so parched they began to try and lick condensation off the walls....
In the early 1970s, Poland wanted to replace their 7.62x39mm Kalashnikov rifles. The Soviet Union was developing the 5.45mm AK-74, but the Poles wanted to make a more ambitious advance in small arms systems. They launched Project Lantan... The plan was to create a modular system similar in concept to the Stoner 63 – a single...
One of the very last, most common, and best looking of the Austrian manually operated pistols is the Bittner. Designed by Gustav Bittner in 1893 and going into production in 1896 (the known examples were proofed in 1897 and 1898)... Several hundred were made; possibly as many as 500. They were produced for the civilian market...
When the German attack into Russia stagnated in late 1942, some areas of the front returned to a trench-and-sniper sort of warfare that was reminiscent of World War One. The German military actually went so far as to design and issue a periscopic tech rifle mount, the “deckungszielgerät” (DZG). Stereotypically German in...
This is the Erika, developed by Franz Pfannl and chambered for the 4.25mm Liliput cartridge (which develops approximately 1/4 the energy of the .25 ACP)....
The Winans Steam Gun was a steam-powered centrifugal gun used during the American Civil War, which used centrifugal (rather than gunpowder) to propel projectiles....
As air is blasted forward in the blast chamber a vacuum is created. This causes cool air to be pulled through the radiator via the capillaries across the barrel. Resulting in the barrel being cooled from firing and preventing overheating....
The Spectre SMG, or as fans of GoldenEye 007 for the N64 might know it the legally distinct Phantom SMG, was made by an Italian company SITES from 1984 until 2001....
The SilencerCo Maxim 9 is an integrally suppressed 9mm handgun that operates on a proprietary delayed blowback system. They call it a delayed wing system, similar to a roller delayed system. (Part 90 is the wing)...
The Velo-Dog... was a pocket revolver originally created in France by René Galand... in the late 19th-century as a defense for cyclists against dog attacks. The name is a compound word composed of "velocipede" and "dog"....
This gauntlet dagger – sometimes also known as a ‘punching’ dagger – is designed to be worn on the bearer’s arm like a glove during close quarter combat....
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The Treeby chain gun was a .54 caliber percussion rifle that could fire 14 rounds in rapid succession. Designed in 1854, it was unlike anything else available at the time. Only two were ever made, with the hope of receiving a contract from the British Army......
This advert shows off a magazine fed revolver that fired triangular cartridges or 'trounds'....
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This is meant to be a thread for odds & ends that don't quite warrant having their own posts. Additional small bits of information of weapons, help with identifying weapons, and various talk.
