TFB Review: Midwest Industries Accessories

Midwest Industries is most likely known for its various handguards, most notably its AR-15 and AK handguards. Today, with the massive amount of mission diversity that is necessitated by modern warfare, the ability to reliably mount a significant number of various accessories to a handguard is a g...

By Toby M •

Russia’s Machine Gun Belts: From Soviet Legacy to Future Warfare

As warfare evolves, the machine gun will always be needed. The technology surrounding it may change, but the basic requirement remains the same. One area where Russia has taken a noticeably different path from many Western countries is machine gun belts. Russian PK and PKM belts can be a headache...

By Lynndon Schooler •

FPSRussia Lost His Gun Rights Over Marijuana. Trump Should Give Them Back

Kyle Myers, better known as FPSRussia, permanently lost his gun rights after a nonviolent marijuana felony. With DOJ reopening federal firearm-rights restoration and President Trump pardoning Patrick “Tate” Adamiak and other gun owners, Myers should be next.

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson •

Russian 6mm Program: The Search for a New Ballistic Solution

Kalashnikov Concern and Tula Cartridge Plant (TPZ) continue work on a new assault rifle cartridge. This has sparked new public interest after the publication of a Russian patent RU 2809501 C1. The Tula Cartridge Plant developed the new assault rifle ammunition in collaboration with the Kalashniko...

By Lynndon Schooler •

Sd.Kfz. 2 Kettenkrad: Germany’s Halftrack Motorcycle

The argument can be made that the Germans make the world’s best engineers. By way of evidence I would submit the StG44 assault rifle, the Me 262 jet fighter, and the Panther tank. While, in each case, the exigencies of around-the-clock bombing certainly took a toll on these revolutionary weapon...

By Will Dabbs, MD •

Russian Quad PKT Zubr C-UAS System

As the War in Ukraine shifts once again, Russia has moved to a defensive approach to the growing threat posed by unmanned aerial systems (UAS), particularly as drone attacks have increasingly reached targets inside Russian territory. This expanding threat has created a clear need for systems that...

By Lynndon Schooler •

POTD: Lobaev Arms’ SKL ZOV - The Russian HK417?

Photo Of The Day, and we go to Russia to see what’s going on at Lobaev Arms. I could be wrong, but their approach to the AR-10 platform reads like applied study notes from the HK417. Rather than using the AR's direct impingement system, Lobaev engineered an improved gas piston des...

By Eric B •

M10 Booker: Not Your Daddy’s Light Tank

For more than a century, infantry units have fought under an unforgiving reality: When you’re humping a ruck through non-cooperative terrain and you run face-first into an entrenched bunker, fortified machine-gun nest or enemy light armor, your options for immediate heavy fire support are painf...

By Mason Berryman •
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