IronMan Backpack | MASSIVE 500 Round Ammunition Backpack

The first position that I held in Ranger Battalion was light/heavy machine gunner.  It was our job to become efficient with just about every light or heavy machine gun in our arsenal, including various grenade launchers. The majority of the time, we would carry our ammo in a small backpack and only feed the gun […]

ZB-37 Machinegun: Shootable history

There are times when being a gun writer really pays off, one of those times is when your friend calls and asks if you want to go with him to the range to shoot a piece of living history in the form of a captured German ZB-37 machine gun. The ZB-37 was originally produced in […]

Watch: ISIS Remote Controlled Rifle Found by Kurdish SOF

A EuroNews report cites that a remote controlled machine gun has been recovered by Kurdish Special Forces, although the weapon system attached appears to be a Dragunov rifle and not a machine gun. Daesh [ISIS/ISIL] has developed a remote-controlled sniper rifle that cost the lives of many soldiers fighting the savage terror group. Kurdish Special Force […]

Fallout, Ukraine (Pt. 6): The Deadly Munitions on Ukraine’s Battlefields

Note: This is part of a series. You can read parts one, two, three, four, and five here. The Soviet standard man-portable arsenal is employed by Ukrainian and pro-Russian separatist forces across the board sans the FM 100-2-3 organization of forces. This includes all of those mass-produced machine guns such as the AKM, AK-74, BG-15 or GP-25, AKSU-74, SVD, RPK, […]