Artillery - Forgotten Weapons

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 50

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 […]

Vintage Saturday: Bigger is Better

May 3, 2014 Ian McCollum 39

The German WWI light minenwerfer worked so well that it was scaled up to a medium-sized version. And then a heavy version. And then the very heavy 38cm version.

Bofors 37mm AT Gun (Video)

April 28, 2014 Ian McCollum 40

The Swedish Bofors company developed a sophisticated and very high-quality light anti-tank gun in the early 1930s, and found significant commercial success with it. A variety of countries either purchased the guns outright from Bofors […]

Reader Questions: German Artillery, Italian Shotgun, Milsurp Parts

April 23, 2014 Ian McCollum 20

Unusual German Field Gun Action From Sam: I saw this artillery piece in file footage of the Norwegian campaign of World War 2 and it piqued my interest due to its method of operation.However, I […]

German 75mm Pak-40 AT Gun (Video)

March 31, 2014 Ian McCollum 63

While we normally stick to small arms here, this beast of a gun was just way too impressive for me to not pay attention to. I was at a cannon and machine gun shoot just […]

Minenwerfer

March 13, 2014 Ian McCollum 44

I’m on the road today, and don’t have a proper post ready – sorry! I’ve been hanging out with some folks into artillery, so I will distract you from the lack of content with a […]

Need a Gunsmithing Project?

May 14, 2013 Ian McCollum 19

As you may have noticed, Defense Distributed has been in the news quite a bit in the last few days since the State Department decided that their posting of single-shot pistol plans violates ITAR regulations. […]

Book Review: A Gun For All Nations

May 9, 2013 Ian McCollum 3

I ran across a mention of this book while trying to find some information on this 37mm Hotchkiss machine gun – and this book was the only reference I could find any mention of it […]

Dolf Goldsmith on $5 Finnish Mortars

April 8, 2013 Ian McCollum 4

We have another piece today from our interview with Dolf Goldsmith, this time on the subject of $5 Finnish mortars used for fun and profit. Well, actually just for fun. To clarify one of Dolf’s […]