Weapons

In the absence of a land front in Europe, the German leadership decided to defeat the Soviet Union during a brief campaign in the summer and autumn of 1941. To achieve this goal, the most combat-ready part of the German armed forces was deployed on the border with the USSR Wehrmacht Operation Barbarossa involved the deployment of three of the four army group headquarters (North, Center and South) (75 per cent), eight (61.5 per cent) of the 13 field army headquarters, 34 (73.9 per cent) of the 46 army headquarters and 11 (91...

Probably there is no more "foreign" topic in specialized military publications than the topic of special forces. If you wish, you can find so much interesting and so much invented by journalists in open sources that it is breathtaking. The topic periodically arises and also quickly disappears depending on the next victory or defeat of a special forces unit of any army in the world. Or when it is simply necessary to convince readers of the approaching horror that awaits them just tomorrow. The horror at the far end of Europe Now, such horror is somehow necessary at the far end of Europe...

Ar-15 is history and modernity. The original Ar-15 rifle was developed for the US Army in the second half of the 1950s by Armalite, a division of Fairchild Republic Aviation Corporation, and in 1959 it was acquired by Colt. More details about the appearance of this rifle and its transformation into an M16 rifle can be found in the corresponding article. The first civilian versions of the Ar-15 rifle were released by Colt in 1963. The rifles were similar to the M16 rifle, except for the marking...

Discreet Weapon Carrying (DWP) reduces crime At the national level: 1.5 million uses in self-defense. Every year, no less than 1.5 million citizens defend themselves with a firearm outside their homes. Discreet weapons laws are driving crime rates down across the country. A national study in 1996 determined that violent crime collapsed after states allowed the legal carrying of firearms. The results of the study showed: Does the carrying of weapons lead to chaos? No. Consider the case of Florida...

In this field, the balance sheet of armaments policy from 1919 to 1935 is extremely limited and, throughout this period, the number of personnel and operations absorbed the largest share of reduced budgets. The construction of the Maginot Line (1929-1936) is undoubtedly the most important program of the period under consideration. With an initially planned amount of 2.9 billion francs, its real cost was 5.5 billion francs in total (Jacomet). But it is important to put their cost into perspective...