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Syrian rebel using an iPad to measure mortar angle

Old Tech, New Tech (Syria)

January 17, 2014 Ian McCollum 48

Is there a computer-using gunnie anywhere who has not dreamed of doing this? Yep, an old German StG-44 mounted on a set of servomotors to allow remote control movement. Complete with firing solenoid and a […]

Austrian Body Armor

January 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 28

I am blatantly swiping this set of photos from a neat (and fairly new) blog I stumbled across, entitled Soviet Gun Archives. There aren’t a whole lot of posts there yet, but they cover some […]

Shooting a Bren 100-Round Drum

December 27, 2013 Ian McCollum 13

A friend of mine went to a local machine gun shoot recently, and came back with some footage of a pair of Bren guns being fired with a 100-round drum magazine. These drums were designed […]

“I Found This Old Maxim Silencer…”

December 3, 2013 Ian McCollum 39

Since I posted my brief article on the original Maxim silencers, I’ve had more than a few people contact me saying that they have found one among the possessions of a deceased parent or grandparent. […]

Nydar Reflex Sight

September 25, 2013 Ian McCollum 42

The basic technology for the Army’s fancy high-tech M68 CCO (the Aimpoint) was first patented all the way back in 1900. The concept of the reflex sight, in brief, is that ambient light is used […]

Sunday Miscellanea

March 3, 2013 Ian McCollum 4

A couple things that came in through the week… First up, Mark Serbu (owner of Serbu Firearms) has a neat video comparing the ATI .22 cal StG44 copy to an original StG44: Also, Leszek pointed […]

“Rakov” DP-28 Magazine Loader

February 20, 2013 Ian McCollum 13

If you think about it for a minute, it suddenly seems odd that there aren’t any military surplus loading tools out there for DP28/DPM pan magazines. At least, that was my reaction when our friend […]

Hythe Gun Camera

February 8, 2013 Ian McCollum 15

Training aircraft gunners has always been a task requiring some creativity, as it requires a lot more than just a paper target for an infantryman to blast away at. In the very early years of […]

My Gun Database Software

August 24, 2012 Ian McCollum 0

Here at ForgottenWeapons, we have a pretty sizable reference collection that we use to study weapons designs. If pressed, we can rattle off its contents pretty well from memory, but it is important to have […]