JERUSALEM — The Israeli Foreign Ministry Wednesday denied a report Israel sent Soviet-made rifles to the Nicaraguan rebels but acknowledged that it had “no idea” whether private Israeli arms ...

Firearms experts pointed out some of the features in the grainy photo, suggesting that the rifle is actually a Soviet cousin of the AK, the SKS. It was designed in the 1940s by another famous ...

This article first appeared on The Daily Signal. Kalashnikov assault rifles are among the most iconic symbols of the Soviet military. Weapons such as the AK-47, the AKM, the AK-74 and the AK-103 ...

Despite Western misunderstanding, the Soviet 14.5 mm PTRD-41 (single shot) and PTRS-41 (semi-automatic) rifles proved to be effective throughout the war when used against the side/rear armor of ...

Millions of Soviet rifles were made during the war, and it remained the main small arm of the largest mobilized army in history with some 17.4 million being manufactured from 1941 to 1945.

Libya has 50,000 active ready troops, over 2,000 Soviet tanks and 9.5 metric tons of mustard gas available at its disposal, and more according to the latest reports from Organization for the ...

Often the rifles are variants of the AK-47, the world’s most abundant firearm, an affordable and simple-to-use assault rifle of Soviet lineage that allows a few people to kill scores and menace ...

This program came from the careful study of Soviet sniper tactics, while the predominate amount of Finnish sniper rifles were captured Soviet M/91-30 and SVT-40 types equipped with Russian optics.