Fedor Tokarev, one of the most successful Soviet small-arms designers of the pre-WWII era, began developing the first Soviet submachine...

The Red Army was officially formed in January of 1918. During its first decade, it was armed with legacy guns...

The story of the Kalashnikov assault rifle began in 1942, during the hardest part of World War II, when the...

Service handguns were among the first indigenous small-arms developments in the Soviet Union. In the mid-1920s, the Red Army was...

The Russian Federation emerged as an independent state in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It inherited most...

The PL-14 pistol was first announced to the general public during the 2015 Russian Arms Expo, which was held in...

The AK-12 is the newest creation of Kalashnikov Concern (formerly Izhmash). It is intended to replace the older AK-74M and...

Thanks to the longstanding Soviet tradition of keeping large stocks of military surplus weapons and equipment just in case World...

The first military “assault rifle” of communist China was of Soviet origin. Adopted by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in...

The history of Russian sniper rifles began during the early 1930s, when, following new Soviet doctrine, the Red Army initiated...

The Soviet Army and NKVD (internal affairs) officers began to use suppressed weapons during World War II. Those weapons included...

I was born in the Soviet Union in 1973, a year before the adoption of the AK-74. I cannot remember when...