Tag: Assault Rifle of the Week

At various times, “foreign” rifles have been made outside their country of origin for a variety of reasons. Our focus: ...

German ordnance engineers have a long and productive history of exploiting the leading edge of technology and not looking back ...

China’s first foray into the field of arms design was the Type 63 rifle. More than a million were made ...

Mikhail Kalashnikov’s AR design was a rising star in the mid ’40s — but he was only one man in ...

Few battle rifles now in use have initially proved so unsatisfactory when first fielded as the L-85 British Infantry Weapon.

Some of the best designs in ordnance history have been relegated to the “answers to questions nobody asked” category simply ...

The FAMAS F1 is a uniquely French bull pup rifle that may have been the first of its design.

The Kalashnikov series of weapons represent the most-produced weapon design in history: Let's review the seminal design from which they ...

The Steyr AUG StG 77 is a tried and true combat rifle that's proved itself as Austrian's number one syndicated ...

The German StG.44 was the iconic weapon that propelled the assault rifle genre onto the world’s battlefields.

In the ’90s the VEKTOR division of Denel began development of an indigenous South African bullpup rifle: The Vektor CR21.

The (1916) Fedorov Avtomat is first in a series of weekly cameos featuring assault rifle designs from yesterday’s wars to ...