Army equipment

the_ww2_memoirs Pictures above is a stellar example of the weapons and gear commonly used by Soviet soldiers serving on the Eastern Front at around 1943. You can see SVT-40s, PPSH-41s, PPD-40, PPS-43, DP 7.62mm machine gun, and DT 7.62mm. The SVT-40 began to phase out the somewhat obsolete Mosin Nagant but just like the M1 Thompson and M3 Grease Gun, that never really happened. It was definently preferred over the bolt action and sometimed faulty Mosin Nagant because you didn't have to find…

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U.S. Army combat equipment, the Vietnam War M1967 combat equipment. #VietnamWarMemories

The British Army has shelled out millions to equip the infantry's SA80 A3 assault rifles with the SmartShooter SMASH Smart Weapon Sight Fire Control System, which is a special sight that allows a soldier to automatically lock onto UAVs in flight.

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“@TrentTelenko Something I noticed from the beginning is that the russians transport their artillery ammo in individual boxes for a single shot, which have to be unloaded by hand in an inefficient way, instead USARMY uses pallets to unload the rounds from the trucks.”

After more than five years, the service is rushing hundreds of recoilless rifles to troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Last year, an MHN reader from the United Kingdom by the name of Allie Redmond forwarded us this infographic she composed about the 250-year evolution of the uniform of the British soldier. Well, Allie’s back...