Artillery - Forgotten Weapons

Light, Mobile, and Deadly: the French Mle 1937 25mm Puteaux AT Gun

March 20, 2020 Ian McCollum 30

After World War One, the French military set up a program to modernize all of its weaponry, and that included a replacement for the Mle 1916 light infantry cannon. An anti-tank gun had not been […]

106mm M40 Recoilless Rifle, History and Firing

February 29, 2020 Ian McCollum 48

The M40 was the final and largest iteration of the recoilless rifle in American military service. Designed to fix the shortcomings of the 105mm M27 that preceded it, the M40 was light and powerful, and […]

Soviet 122mm D30 Cannon

January 4, 2020 Ian McCollum 31

The D30 is a Soviet 122mm multi-role gun introduced in the 1960s and still in use around the world today. It has a somewhat unusual 3-leg mount that is slower to set up than a […]

Chatting About Cannons & Tanks with Glenn Fleming

January 2, 2020 Ian McCollum 42

When I arrived at DriveTanks.com down in Texas, I was happily surprised to find my old acquaintance Glenn Fleming working there as lead gunsmith. Glenn and I first met on the set of a certain […]

Cannon Shooting Compilation: 20mm to 76mm

December 12, 2019 Ian McCollum 11

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 […]

3.7cm PAK – Germany’s Basic WWII Antitank Gun

December 10, 2019 Ian McCollum 12

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 […]

All the Guns on an M4 Sherman Tank (with Nicholas Moran, the Chieftain)

December 7, 2019 Ian McCollum 37

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 […]

Quick Look at a 37mm Maxim “Pompom” Automatic Cannon

September 21, 2019 Ian McCollum 25

This Vickers, Sons & Maxim 37mm MkIII “Pompom” is on display at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. The MkIII pattern is quite scarce, with less than one hundred ever made. It is built around […]

US Navy Driggs Mk IX 37mm Quickfire Cannon

April 23, 2019 Ian McCollum 21

This Driggs cannon and its accessories are lot #1117 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction. Developed between 1883 and 1889 by Lt. William Driggs and Commander (later Admiral) Seaton Schroeder, the Driggs cannon was an improvement […]

Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon from San Juan Hill

April 9, 2019 Ian McCollum 34

This Hotchkiss and its accessories are lot #1116 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction: Benjamin Hotchkiss was an American artillery designer who moved to Paris in 1867 in hopes of building a business for his improvements […]