Forgotten Weapons

Unlike traditional bows that use the tension of a string this design is based on pneumatics....

You might look at this and wonder which of the three triggers makes it shoot. The answer is both of them. One isn't a trigger, but is instead a magazine release. The others are for semi and automatic fire....

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....

IED attacks in Iraq peaked in 2007....

Link to the video on them: https://youtu.be/psrZXa2WeQE?si=1MqolkrlDQa7dtvK

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“Since a regulation size football weighs 14 ounces, it was considered feasible to make a shaped charge grenade within this weight limitation. In addition, most US troops are familiar with throwing footballs,” according to the Army’s test report for the weapon....

Armour presented to King James I by Tokugawa Hidetada. Possibly originally for Takeda Katsuyori and modified by Iwai Yozaemon for presentation in about 1610....

Designed by Gerry Fox in the early 1970s, this carbine saw production sequentially as the Fox Carbine, the TAC-1, and the XF-7 Wasp, as it went through several different manufacturers. It is an open bolt, semiauto carbine sold in both 9mm Parabellum and .45 ACP – and you could get caliber conversion kits consisting of a bolt...

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/HistoryArtifacts/t/952584

The M-28 or M-29 Davy Crockett Weapon System was a tactical nuclear recoilless smoothbore gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile, armed with the W54 nuclear warhead, that was deployed by the United States during the Cold War. It was the first project assigned to the United States Army Weapon Command in Rock Island,...

The PSS-2, as the name implies is the next generation of the PSS design which was adopted in the 1980s. The original gun boasted the ability to be shot silently without a suppressor due to its special piston based 7.62x42 SP4 ammo....

ArcFlash Labs has come out with a new coil gun design that takes the best elements of their underpowered EMG-01 and their overly bulky GR-1 Anvil and melded them into a much handier EMG-02....

The Perrin was an 1859 revolver design originating in France, which was initially an open-frame, double-action-only system. It went through some significant improvements in 1865, including a single action mechanism and a fully enclosed frame for greater strength....

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/HistoryArtifacts/t/896778

This 7mm Belgian needle fire breech loading pistol would have been used for target shooting in one's parlor, presumably on rainy days....

This less lethal launcher from UMX, a sub brand of the German company Umarex, has a built in range finder tied to a laser rangefinder that regulates an electronically controlled valve to ensure a projectile is launched pneumatically to hit a target at no greater than 30 joules of impact force....

The Cookson flintlock rifle, a lever-action breech-loading repeater, is one of many similar designs to make an appearance on the world stage beginning in the 17th century. The revolutionary mechanism at the heart of the Cookson repeater dates from 1680 and was originally known in Europe as the Lorenzoni System... Long arms...

This rare first edition of Margaret Mitchell’s "Gone with the Wind" was used to conceal a .32-caliber pistol....

“Baby Face” Nelson is one of the most notorious gangsters in FBI history. He was a callous killer with a violent temper who participated in a countless number of robberies and was responsible for the deaths of three FBI agents—more than anyone in history—as well as the deaths of numerous other law enforcement officers....

This 12-shot .40 caliber repeater was designed by Epenetus A. Bennett and Frederick P. Haviland......

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

For anyone who wondered what made a minigun 'mini'....