Military Weapons from the Past

Military Weapons from the Past: Americas First Rolling Armored “Shotgun”

Posted on 6 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

A weird little Marine Corps tank blasted North Vietnamese troops Designed and built in a farm tractor factory and armed with six 106-millimeter recoilless rifles, the M-50A1 Ontos was rejected by the Army and only purchased in small numbers by the Marine Corps. Years later in Vietnam, the USMC trained infantry riflemen to drive these…

Military Weapons from the Past: The MAT-49

Posted on 6 March 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Although it does not mention it here, this weapon was used quite frequently by American MACVSOG and LRRP Units in Vietnam. John L. Plasters’ excellent book, Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG, talks about it. Plaster also wrote one of the best books IMO on Long Range Shooting and Sniping…

Military Weapons from the Past: The DP Machine Gun aka “Stalin’s Phonograph”

Posted on 24 February 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Since 1928, the battlefields of the world have seen an oddball Soviet-era weapon that proves the truth of the old saying, “Looks aren’t everything.” Its nickname was once “Stalin’s phonograph” — and the staccato tune it plays is the sound of automatic fire. Used by the Russians to gun down both the Finns and the Nazis,…

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