Anti-Tank Rifles
AK50: How Hard Could it Be? Brandon Herrera’s 10-Year Project
Scaling the AK up to .50 BMG…how hard could it be? Today we find out, with a detailed looks at all threee iterations of Brandon Herrera’s AK-50 project.
Anti-Tank Rifles
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.50 BMG and the Geneva Convention
Adorable Penguin Brutality shirt available from Varusteleka: https://www.varusteleka.com/en/product/forgotten-weapons-penguin-brutality-t-shirt/81986?option=81709 I’m sure you’ve heard the one about how targeting an enemy soldier with a .50 BMG is a war crime, but targeting his belt buckle is okay […]
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wz.35: Poland’s Remarkably Misunderstood Antitank Rifle
Polish wz. 35 ATR by Leszek Erenfeicht In 1929 Maj. Tadeusz Felsztyn [TADEUSH FELSHTEEN], Scientific Director of the Central Shooting School in Torun (a chief firearms research and instruction institution in Poland between 1919 and […]
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RT20: Croatia’s Insane Kludged 20mm Anti-Material Rifle
During its Homeland War, Croatia manufactured a wide variety of ad-hoc firearms including a number of anti-material rifles. The RT-20 was the largest of these, and its development began with the discovery of a stash […]
Anti-Tank Rifles
MACS M2: Croatian Anti-Material .50 Cal
Among the many firearms designed and built in Croatia under the duress of the Homeland War was the MACS M2, a single-shot anti-material rifle chambered for .50 BMG. Designed by an engineer named Jankovic, these […]
Anti-Tank Rifles
The Manda: Croatia’s Minimalist .50 BMG
The Manda is a rifle that was designed for the Croatian Special Police at the beginning of the Homeland War in 1991. At that point, the Special Police (basically the SWAT teams) were basically the […]
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Hamas Claims to Make Sniper Rifles in Gaza – Are They Really?
Hamas – or rather its specific military wing the Al Qassam Brigade – posted a video on Twitter / X yesterday purporting to show the manufacture of .50 caliber sniper rifles in Gaza. I was […]
Anti-Tank Rifles
PTRS 41: The Soviet Semiauto Antitank Rifle (aka an SKS on Steroids)
Prior to World War Two, the Soviet Union had a rather lackluster interest in antitank rifles – a series of guns were developed, but slowly and without all that much success. The Barbarossa invasion gave […]
Anti-Tank Rifles
GM6 Lynx .50 BMG Bullpup at the Range
Today we have the Gepárd M6 Lynx out at the range to try out! My impression is that mechanically, the gun is very well constructed. Everything operated cleanly and smoothly, and there were no malfunctions […]
Anti-Tank Rifles
GM6 Lynx: The Hungarian Long-Recoil .50-Caliber Bullpup
The Gepárd M6 is the result of nearly 3 decades of development. The Hungarian military first requested a .50-caliber anti-material rifle circa 1987, and the M1 design submitted was a single-shot rifle chambered for the […]