Machine Guns - Forgotten Weapons

MP9 and TP9: A Complete History From Steyr to B&T

October 21, 2024 Ian McCollum 9

Steyr introduced their TMP (Tactical Machine Pistol) and its semiauto SPP counterpart in 1989, but it was never a very popular item. After the company was purchased, the new ownership decided to scrap the TMP […]

RP-46: The Rarely Seen Belt-Fed Degtyarev

October 16, 2024 Ian McCollum 36

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Estonia’s Domestic Arms Production: Arsenal Tallinn SMG

October 11, 2024 Ian McCollum 10

At the end of Estonia’s war of independence in 1920, the new nation’s government began working on military infrastructure. One thing it would need was a repair depot to maintain military equipment, everything from barracks […]

Degtyarev Upgrades: DP27 vs DPM

October 9, 2024 Ian McCollum 2

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The FAL in Cuba: Left Arm of the Communist World?

October 7, 2024 Ian McCollum 42

In 1958, Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista ordered some 35,000 FAL rifles from FN, including both regular infantry rifles have heavy-barreled FALO light machine guns. Before any of them could arrive, however, Batista fled the country […]

Mini-Ero: The Croatian Hybrid Small Uzi

October 5, 2024 Ian McCollum 16

After producing the Ero, a nearly exact copy of the Israeli Uzi, the Croatia firm Arma started making some design changes. With the Mini-Ero, they picked a size in between that of the Mini-Uzi and […]

Samostril Netsch: Bizarre Prototype Czech Automatic Rifle

October 2, 2024 Ian McCollum 0

When Czechoslovakia began looking for new small arms in the early 1920s, one of the things they were interested in was a “samostřil” – something akin to the automatic rifle in English. A select-fire weapon […]

Steyr-Solothurn S2-200: the Austrian MG30 and Hungarian 31M

September 23, 2024 Ian McCollum 9

The S2-200 was developed by Louis Stange at the Rheinmetall company in Germany in the late 1920s. Because Germany was not allowed to be doing this sort of arms development at the time, Rheinmetall bought […]

HK21 or Portuguese m/968: The H&K G3 Grows into a Light Machine Gun

September 4, 2024 Ian McCollum 27

When Heckler & Koch produced the iconic G3 rifle, it was intended to be a parts of a complete small arms package. The G3 was the infantry rifle, and it was paired with the MP% […]

History of SAW Use in the US Army

July 26, 2024 Ian McCollum 37

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