We explore how the Soviet Union sought to replace the aging Maxim by tasking Degtyarev in the late 1920s with creating a single, air-cooled machine gun capable of infantry, vehicle, and anti-aircraft ...

Military thinkers are not always the most forward of thinkers, and this was certainly the case with small arms in the nineteenth century. Initially, the U.S. Army was not sold... During the early ...

Key Point: During just one day in 1916 at the Battle of the Somme the British lost 21,000 men – many of them killed by Spandau machine guns, the German version of the ...