The PKP Pecheneg is Russia’s formidable general-purpose machine gun, designed to deliver sustained, accurate fire under the harshest battlefield conditions. Built as a modernized variant of the PKM, ...
Few weapons have defined the tempo of modern warfare quite like the machine gun. It isn’t a new concept by any means, with the notion of rapid fire volleys being something dating back to the Age of ...
The Browning M2 entered U.S. service in 1921 and remains operational today despite predating jets, radar, helicopters, and modern armored warfare. U.S. military attempts to replace the M2 repeatedly ...
During the late 1970s, international embargoes and an ongoing conflict forced South Africa to develop its own general-purpose machine gun from scratch. We explore how an initially troubled design ...
Germany produced some of the finest and most innovative small arms of the Second World War—from the MG-34 general purpose machine gun to the StG44, the world’s first assault rifle.