Artillery - Forgotten Weapons

Bethlehem Steel 37mm Cannon – Looking for Data

November 18, 2014 Ian McCollum 22

I recently got an email from a young man named Paul who is working on restoring a Bethlehem Steel 37mm cannon as an Eagle Scout project. The gun is sitting outside an American Legion post, […]

US troops demonstrating use of an M1916 37mm gun

Vintage Saturday: Fire Support

November 1, 2014 Ian McCollum 39

One of the photos that didn’t make the cut for the 2015 Forgotten Weapons Calendar: US troops demonstrating use of an M1916 37mm gun. Note how the ammo is supplied on a cloth belt – […]

Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun (Thai Model 1902)

July 28, 2014 Ian McCollum 22

We’re taking a look at another artillery piece today, a 50mm mountain gun made for Siam (now Thailand) by the German Krupp company. It is a relatively simple (and thus relatively inexpensive at the time) […]

Vintage Saturday: Shaped Charge

July 19, 2014 Ian McCollum 22

This contraption is a Hungarian M1944 (1944 Mintá = 44M) double AT Projector (dupla páncéltörövetö) aka the Buzogányvető (= the Mace). Only 700 units were made, and they served as HE/AT weapona. The warheads […]

Russian RG-6 Grenade Launcher and German Repair Depot Footage

July 11, 2014 Ian McCollum 11

Something new and something old today… From long-time contributor Hrachya, we have a Russian manual for the RG-6 grenade launcher. This is a pretty recent design, having gone into production in the 1990s. It fires […]

37mm Gun, Bethlehem, Semi-Automatic (Video)

July 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 11

The 37mm gun was found in many guises during World War One – that caliber was the smallest allowed to use exploding projectiles by the 1899 Hague accords. Every nation in the world, it seems, […]

M6 Gun Motor Carriage 37mm (Video)

June 2, 2014 Ian McCollum 17

The M6 Gun Motor Carriage was the first American tank destroyer of WWII – a 37mm antitank gun (basically identical to the M3 gun) mounted on the back of a Dodge 3/4 ton weapons carrier. […]

L’Arbalete la Sauterelle Type A D’Imphy

May 13, 2014 Ian McCollum 25

This post started as just a quickie, because I happened to find a vintage photo of a couple French WWI soldiers using a crossbow/ballista type device to throw grenades. I realized, looking at the photo, […]

Granatenwerfer 16

May 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 49

Developed from a weapon originally designed by a priest, of all people, in the Austro-Hungarian army, the Granatenwerfer 16 was a German WWI grenade thrower which bridged the gap between hand-thrown grenades and the light […]