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Type 89 Knee Mortar at James D Julia

September 23, 2015 Ian McCollum 41
The Type 89 grenade discharger, commonly known as the “knee mortar” was a Japanese light infantry weapon introduced in 1929 which blurs the lines between grenade launcher and mortar. Like a mortar, it fires propelled […]
Artillery

RIA: Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon Reproduction

August 31, 2015 Ian McCollum 30
The Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon was developed in the 1870s as a competitor to the other manually-operated machine guns of the era, guns like the Gatling, Gardner, and Nordenfelt to name a few. What made the […]
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Artillery

T124E2 76mm Anti-Tank Gun

March 20, 2015 Ian McCollum 36
The T124E2 was the last US antitank gun, and was discontinued after only about 100 had been made – before it was put into service. It was a high velocity 76mm piece, and was replaced […]
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Artillery

US M3 37mm Antitank Gun (Video)

January 5, 2015 Ian McCollum 45
The M3 was the first real anti-tank gun adopted by the US military, and it was not formally adopted until 1940 – and was thoroughly obsolete in Europe by 1942. The initial design was based […]
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Artillery

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
Artillery

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 – […]
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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) […]
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Artillery

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 […]
RG-6 40mm grenade launcher
Artillery

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 […]
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Artillery

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, […]

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