Forgotten Weapons

These mittens would be used to handle machine gun barrels while changing from an overheated barrel for a new one during prolonged firing....

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/historyporn@lemmy.world/t/846857

With no markings or provenance at all, the origins of this revolver are a mystery. Its features all point to the 1880s or 1890s, and someone clearly spent a lot of time working on it – but we don’t know who. What makes it interesting is the very unusual operating mechanism. It is similar to a “zig-zag” system like the...

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....

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....

You might be thinking how could this bullpup pan-fed automatic pistol possibly be worse. It is also a blow forward design. Meaning the barrel physically moves forward to operate the gun each shot. This significantly increases recoil, and in theory decreases accuracy....

The President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, visited Ukraine together with the President of Slovakia, Zuzana Čaputová on April 28, 2023. Both met with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv. On that occasion, President Pavel presented President Zelenskyy with a hand-engraved CZ 75 pistol from the Order of the...

Housing made of transparent plastic. Removed gas system, housing, handle, lock carrier, etc. for illustrative purposes....

Back in 2007/08 a company called Monolith Arms was promoting a pump-action 12 gauge shotgun they designed. The shotgun was notable because it fed from a horizontally mounted magazine inspired by the FN P90.  They shotgun was promised to be on sale in 2007, when they did not ship it in 2007 they promised it in 2008, but...

Traumatic pistols are a class of less-lethal guns typically they fire rubber balls....

This Carl Gustaf M/45 also known as the Swedish K submachine gun was found in 2008 in Sweden by a group during a chainsaw training exercise....

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d0c966ae-4e2b-4b37-a71d-8647c5329abb.jpeg...

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2024/01/16/hot-gat-fudd-crap-khyber-pass-ill-bid-last/

Video of it in use [1:00] (no audio): https://youtu.be/YoOaJclkSZg...

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This Belarusian 30mm automatic grenade launcher from BSVT looks like a prospective Star Wars prop....

Seven years ago a video went viral of a prototype Russian robot, the 'FODOR', dual weilding Glock pistols. For those of us not paying attention at home this technology is notably absent from the war in Ukraine. This is a subtle nod to the fact that the idea of humanoid robots fighting wars is stupid....

Characterised by a large bulbous pistol grip and its unusually positioned cylinder Shaw’s pistol looks nothing like its contemporaries....

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11946648...

The project must have been a local gunsmith put together without any serial production. It must have been created as an attempt to say, “Why not?”...

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...