There is very little known about the 8x87 (or 7,92x88) Spanish Anti-tank rifle. Spain also followed trends from Poland and Germany to produce a more economical means of defeating tank armour as well as light artillery pieces on infantry level. Developments in tank...

During the mid to late 1860’s, various military powers in Europe were in process of changing their outdated percussion cap rifles to the newly developed self-contained metallic breech loading cartridge. Much of the work and research was done by the Mauser brothers,...

During October 1885 when Portugal ordered the Guedes Rifle from Steyr in Austria, the order also included 9,000 Kropatschek rifles, which would have indicated that they already saw the error of their ways by trying to introduce a single-shot rifle when the rest of the...

This is also a relatively large project, new specimens will be added soon - During the late 1870’s and into the 1880’s there were giant technological strides made in the development of small arms ammunition. It was without a doubt that one of the front-runners in this...

The French began experimenting with semi-automatic rifles as far back as the 1890’s with the testing of the Meunier rifle and by 1900 they were considering the replacement of their bolt action rifles with semi-automatic rifles, but budget constraints and bureaucracy...

The Brixia Modello 35 was a light infantry mortar to provide indirect fire support against enemy positions at platoon level and was based on a 45mm light fragmentation projectile weighing 16.4 ounces (465 grams) and able to reach target areas out to about 580 yards...