The M6 rifle/shotgun was originally developed during early 1950s by the Ithaca Gun Company for the US Air Force as an aircrew survival weapon. The idea was based on the Marble Game Getter that was manufactured between 1908 and 1934. It was adopted by the US Air Force...

The 408 Cheyenne Tactical, is a counter sniper rifle cartridge, that was developed by Dr. John D. Taylor and William Wordman and was designed specifically for the military market in the hope that it would be both a cost effective and ballistically superior round to...

This is part of a series of experimental spotter-tracer rounds developed by Winchester during the late 1950’s. This might have been on contract or an internal trial, but there is no evidence to support either theory. Bullet is of machined brass with a machined...

Frankford Arsenal started the development of a new shoulder-fired 90mm recoilless rifle in 1957, the PAT (Platoon Anti-Tank, which was to use a spotting pistol incorporated into the forward grip. Initial testing was done with a scaled down .50 Cal spotter-tracer in a...

The special committee that was set up in February of 1869 by the Royal Navy to re-examine the role and future of machine guns for Land and Naval Service had to consider the role of the Martini Henry cartridge and re-barrelling of all existing Gatlings to accommodate...

The 40 – 3800 was part of an internal Winchester project called “Armor Machine Gun System” dating from 1968 to develop an improved cartridge based on the .50cal Browning. The name of this cartridge denotes the calibre and velocity, and the overall length of the round...

    This is an unprimed empty of the Jayanden Design case. In 1941 Sir Dennis Burney, a senior executive with Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. (ICI) approached the Ministry of Supply with ideas for improving the efficiency and ballistics of the .303...

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