Cold War Shadows: The VSS Vintorez and AS Val Silent Weapons

The VSS Vintorez emerged during the late Cold War as part of a highly specialized Soviet effort to develop a quiet, compact rifle capable of delivering accurate fire without revealing the shooter’s position. Designed in the 1980s at the Central Research Institute of Precision Engineering (T...

By Lynndon Schooler

A Student's Vision of The New Generation of Russian Light Machine Gun

A recent post by Kalashnikov.ru  shed light on the work of a young engineering student on a proposed light machine gun design. It was an interesting design recently submitted at the M. T. Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University (ISTU), where the annual exchange between academic traini...

By Lynndon Schooler

52nd Collaborative EW Symposium Welcomes UK for First Trilateral Event

NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER WEAPONS DIVISION, POINT MUGU, Calif. Welcome to the Invisible War Invisible wars demand visible action. In this arena, coalition electronic warfare, interoperability and spectrum superiority will decide victories in future near-peer conflicts. Whoever owns the electromagn...

By Eric G

Paradox of the German Tiger II Tank

The Tiger II tank, officially designated as Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B and introduced in 1944, was Germany’s most advanced heavy tank of World War II. Known as the Königstiger (King Tiger) by the Germans and often referred to as the Royal Tiger by Allied forces, it was designed to dominate...

By Eugene Nielsen

POTD: Suppressed ZF5-P (MP5K) Meets M90 Camouflage

Today’s Photo of the Day features a suppressed ZF5-P (MP5K) by Zenith Firearms, finished in Swedish M90 “Scandi Cam”, blending a classic submachine gun profile with modern components and a distinctly Nordic visual twist. Compact by design, the MP5K format remains relevant thanks...

By Eric B
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