Weapons & Equipment

'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy. ...

This book gathers together for the first time all the wheeled armoured vehicles in the world with their various modifications, modernisations along...

With the way the battlefield has evolved over the last ten years, the soldiers equipment has had to evolve accordingly. Although the media often sh...

Maximizing firepower has always been a primary goal of firearms designers, as experience of warfare has shown that this provides a decisive advanta...

Patented in 1898 and produced from 1900, Georg Lugers iconic semi-automatic pistol became synonymous with Germanys armed forces throughout both wor...

Technologically sophisticated and powerful, the crossbow has long enjoyed a popular reputation for villainous superiority because it could be used ...

The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) provides the Army s integral repair and recovery capability. Its soldiers are deploye...

War is a duel written large. How did we get from clubs and spears to machine guns and drone missiles? What led to the human race firing projectiles...

This book provides an in-depth analysis and guide to the laws relating to firearms and offensive weapons in Ireland. Being the first book dealing w...

An iconic medieval missile weapon, the deadly longbow made possible the English victories at Crecy and Poitiers at the height of the Hundred Years ...

Over the last 30 years, Special Forces have become a key component of the worlds armed forces, often employing unconventional tactics as part of ai...

The Bradley Fighting Vehicle was developed in the 1970s to counter the new Infantry Fighting Vehicles of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allie...

German submarine technologies count among the leaders in the world. The Germans were not the first to have introduced submarines into their navy, b...