Born in the chaos of WWII, this German rifle was more than a weapon—it was Adolf Hitler’s secret blueprint for modern combat. Discover the unbelievable technology it introduced, including curved ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The StG-44 was a revolutionary weapon that inspired small arms development for decades afterward. During World War II, the beleaguered German Army fielded a ...

A statue of the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle featured an embarrassing mistake: it accidentally included a diagram of a German World War II assault rifle. The mistake, which was quickly ...

"The AK47, or Avtomat Kalashnikova in Russian, has been the world's most used automatic rifle since it was first introduced ...

World War II saw the birth of groundbreaking gun technologies shaping modern warfare. In this episode of Secret Weapons of World War Two, we spotlight these innovations. Innovations like the M1 ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: That the AK-47 beat out the AK-46 is less important than the AK-47’s legacy as the most ubiquitous gun pattern ever created. AK-46 or 47—it doesn’t matter. Both ...