Weapon

The Sterling Submachine Gun
Designed by a motorcycle racer turned small-arms engineer, George Patchett, the submachine gun t...
The Luger
Patented in 1898 and produced from 1900, Georg Luger's iconic semi-automatic pistol became synonymou...
The MP5 Submachine Gun
Since the mid-1960s the Heckler & Koch MP5 has become the most widely used submachine gun in the wor...
The Bren Gun
Adopted in 1938 and remaining in British service until 1991, the popular and reliable Bren was an ic...
The Anti-Tank Rifle
The emergence of the tank in World War I led to the development of the first infantry weapons to def...
The Composite Bow
An ancient design, emerging from Central Asia in the second millennium BC, the composite bow was ado...
MG 34 and MG 42 Machine Guns
With the MG 34, the German Wehrmacht introduced an entirely new concept in automatic firepower - the...
Winchester Lever-Action Rifles
Winchester lever-action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West....
The M1903 Springfield Rifle
Developed to replace the Model 1892 Krag-Jørgensen rifle, the Model 1903 Springfield was a five-shot...
The M1 Carbine
In 1938 the US Chief of Infantry requested that the Ordnance Department develop a carbine to be used...
The AK-47: Kalashnikov-Series Assault Rifles
The Kalashnikov AK-47 is the most ubiquitous assault rifle in the world, with more AK-47s and its va...
The Longbow
An iconic medieval missile weapon, the deadly longbow made possible the English victories at Crecy a...
The Vickers-Maxim Machine Gun
The world's first self-powered machine gun, the Maxim gun became a potent symbol of Victorian coloni...
The Uzi Submachine Gun
The Uzi submachine gun is one of the most recognizable weapons in history. Its familiarity stems in...
The Rocket Propelled Grenade
The RPG-series of weapons is the most widely used family of lightweight antitank weapons in the worl...