Artillery
Cannon Shooting Compilation: 20mm to 76mm
The end of the year means I am going to take a moment for a bit of a retrospective, this time on the cannons that have appeared on Forgotten Weapons over the years. From 20mm […]
Articles by Ian McCollum
Grenade Launcher
XM-148: Colt’s Vietnam Grenade Launcher
While the Special Purpose Infantry Weapon (SPIW) program failed to produce any successful rifles, it did become clear that the area-effect aspect of its requirements did have merit. This was spun off as its […]
Artillery
3.7cm PAK – Germany’s Basic WWII Antitank Gun
Germany developed its first 37mm (or as German designations put it, 3.7cm) antitank gun in the last months of World War One; a very simple design built using barrels from obsolete Hotchkiss revolving cannons. In […]
Light MGs
Belgian Model 1915/27 Improved Chauchat
The Belgian Army was the second to adopt the Chauchat automatic rifle, after the French. Almost all of Belgium was under German occupation during World War One, leaving Belgium significantly dependent on French aid for […]
Book review
Book Review: The Martini Henry, For Queen and Empire
One of the perennial challenges facing authors of firearms reference books is balancing the very technical nit-pickery with the broad historical view of a gun and its context in world events. The emphasis is usually […]
Artillery
All the Guns on an M4 Sherman Tank (with Nicholas Moran, the Chieftain)
Try out World of Tanks with a special bonus tank using this link! Today Nicholas Moran (the Chieftain) and I are at DriveTanks.com courtesy of Wargaming.net, to show you around a World War Two Sherman […]
Semiauto pistol
Bulgarian M1911 Luger
Bulgaria bought its first Lugers in 1903; 1000 Old Model guns in 7.65mm. It bought another 1300 New Model Lugers in 1908 (again in 7.65mm), but both of these orders were intended for private purchase […]
Single Shot Rifles
Terry’s Breechloading Carbine: Used by Hussars and Confederates
This capping breechloader was patented in the UK by William Terry in 1856, and adopted (in limited numbers) by the British military in 1860. Approved for cavalry use, it was issued to the 18th Hussars, […]
Miniature
Tippman’s Half-Scale .22 Rimfire Browning 1917 Machine Gun
In 1983, Dennis Tippman formed a company to manufacture half-scale functional replicas of Browning machine guns – the 1919 and 1917 specifically. He built these as both fully automatic and semiautomatic (the semiauto design being […]
Semiauto Rifles
Valkyrie Arms Semiauto M3A1 Grease Gun
Valkyrie Arms was formed in 1993 to produce semiautomatic copies of classic military machine guns, and in 2004 they introduced a semiauto M3A1 “Grease Gun”. The M3 and M3A1 are particularly rare guns as registered […]