Guns & Gear

The Gustav gun needed a crew of 2,000 men to operate it. The German Schwerer Gustav rail gun was the largest artillery piece created during the Second World War and was the only Nazi wonder weapon to be used in combat against the Russians. The concept of the super gun …

The ‘PARM 2’ is an ‘off route’ directional mine that can hit enemy vehicles up to 100 metres away. Here’s how it works: a vid from British Armed Forces.

A sniper in the security service of Ukraine (SBU) claimed a groundbreaking world record by taking out a Russian soldier from a distance of 2.36 miles. The shot beats the previous record for a combat kill from a distance of 1.7 miles. The sniper used a Ukrainian-made sniper rifle known …

Gear Review by Susan Katz Keating I’ve never known a watch that could help you travel through time, but the chrono-wizards at AVI-8 have figured out how to build such devices, with their timepieces that honor the history of military aviation. I learned of this when the wizards sent me …

Russia has successfully tested its ability to deliver massive nuclear strikes by land, sea, and air, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. “A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile was test-launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome towards the Kura proving ground in Kamchatka,” the Kremlin said in a statement. Russian state TV showed Defense …

A thriving black market arms bazaar has emerged in Afghanistan, where the Taliban control the sale of American weapons that were abandoned inside the country two years ago, according to reports. An M-4 rifle in good condition is a status symbol with a $2,400 price tag, while a Pakistan-made AK-47 …

The Wagner group continues to run training centers in Russia, despite the deaths of the organization’s founders Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin in an August plane crash. One school, Octagon, trains operators to use kamikaze drones. A correspondent from RFE/RL signed up for the course. Here is his report. His name …

A ‘silent’ short-range mortar system, the 2B25 Spigot, has been spotted being used by Russian forces in Ukraine. Unlike other mortars, the weapon is said to be only as loud as a suppressed 7.62x39mm round being fired from a Kalashnikov rifle. And, according to a promotional video, the 2B25 was …

by Friedrich Seiltgen The Heckler & Koch MP-5 Sub-Machinegun is a legend. Its development began in 1964. It began service with the West German Bundespolizei in 1966, and H&K never looked back. Throughout the years it gained a reputation as a quality built, reliable weapon and was selected for service by …

ANALYSIS by John “Wolf” Wagner If others also begin to ground the aircraft, we may be looking at a much more serious problem with our platform. Now that investigators have found a debris field for the Marine Corps F-35B that was ‘lost’ Sunday after the pilot ejected, the questions are …