Forgotten Weapons

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In 1879, Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly devised a plan to create bulletproof armour and wear it during shootouts with the police. He and other members of the Kelly gang—Joe Byrne, Steve Hart, and brother Dan Kelly—had their own armour suits and helmets crafted from plough mouldboards, either donated by...

Häyhä was born in 1905, joined the Civil Guard at the age of 17, and did his mandatory military service from 1925 to 1927. He was first issued an American-made New England Westinghouse M91 Mosin as a Guardsman. After being discharged form the Army in 1927, he returned to active Civil Guard membership while living and working...

In the late 1970s, H&K partnered with Hensoldt to create the ZP/AP (Ziel/Aiming; Projektor/Projector) and then ZPP/APP (Ziel/Aiming; Punkt/Point; Projektor/Projector). This was essentially a calibrated flashlight with an aiming point and pressure switch. It projected a beam of light that was specifically 2m wide at 50m distance,...

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

This test was run by a company named MDT Sporting Goods. They recorded their test and it'll be linked at the end of the post....

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...

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....

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....

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From a great article on the hunga munga:...

The official SOE catalog referred to this as a “short length, silent, murder weapon”. The sleeve gun was a variant of the better-known Welrod pistol; it was a simple suppressor tube with a single .32 ACP caliber round loaded into the breech before concealing up the user’s sleeve. A hole at the rear of the gun allowed a...

This gun had a 6 round capacity of .25 ACP to be shot across three trigger pulls. It is the predecessor to the S333 Thunderstruck....

The Valmara series of mines (Valmara, Valmara 59, and Valmara 69) are Italian produced anti-personnel ("APERS") landmines. The are what are known as bounding mines, which is to say that when they are tripped, the main charge of the mine is projected upwards before exploding. The airburst of the mine is designed to allow the...

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....

The gap between the chamber and the barrel prevents most revolvers from being silenced....

Lion Fish are an invasive species in the waters off of Florida that have no predators and out compete local fish....

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Engineers this is how the end users will use your product....