Fokker D.VIII Fighter: The Deadly Flying Razor

In the summer of 1918, a new fighter ascended in the German Air Combat Forces, or Luftstreitkräfte, boasting a level of performance that would outpace any of Anthony Fokkers’ famous designs. The Fokker E.V parasol monoplane, eventually known as the Fokker D.VIII, demonstrated tremendous combat...

By Tom Laemlein •

POTD: The S&W Model 422 – Smith’s Run at the Plinker Crown

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Smith & Wesson trying to crash a party Ruger had been hosting for years. This is the Model 422, S&W’s budget .22 plinker, and these two are first-year guns from 1987. By the mid-1980s the affordable rimfire pistol market belong...

By Sam.S •

Silencer Saturday #442: An ATF Numbers Update

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the new Victra 20-gauge shotgun suppressor . This week we are looking at the latest set of processing times and transfer data from the ATF , posted on July 1. We ar...

By Daniel Y •

Black Arrow & Black Spear- History of Anti-Materiel Rifles From Serbia

Last year, when I was working on my book about Zastava AKs , me and fellow TFB writer Lynndon Schooler visited Zastava factory in Kragujevac, Serbia. Since then, Lynndon has published several comprehensive articles about new Zastava weapons, but there is one more firearm we saw that certainly des...

By Vladimir Onokoy •
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