It's not a pig, neither it's a dog or a wombat, Beltex is a Belgian breed of sheep. Known for being extremely muscular they're primarily bred for meat purpose

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This owl captured child's hobby horse and carries it around the town

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It sucks to be a male anglerfish. They're puny compared to female and incapable of surviving on their own. Immediately after hatching it latches to nearest female fusing with it for good. They lose most organs becoming a sperm banks

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This strange device was used to prevent masturbation in British mental hospitals patients during XIX century

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🔥🔥Sam the ancient wise lion from Nairobi National Park. He died in 2020 following injury from another lion. During his 15 year lifespan he definitely saw everything and more

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Very unusual and cute zebra foal born with spots instead of usual streaks

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🔥🔥Fewer than 25 of the elusive Borneo Bay Cats have ever been recorded, making it one of the rarest and least-studied cats in the world.

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🔥🔥This humble cactus Euphorbia resinifera produces the spiciest substance know to man. At 16 billion scoville units Resiniferatoxin is 500 times more potent that pure capsaicin

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It was dead yes but i pity this cat anyway

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In 1980's US Government spent 300 million dollars (1B today) on Sci Fi rifles. Only thing that entered service is the scope on the second prototype

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Very unconventional method of healing second and third degree burns from Brazil. A tilapia skin is rich in collagen and it isolates wounded tissue well. They change it every ten days

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Can't imagine the pain

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Some chinese man is selling toilet paper with Zelensky's face on the internet. supposedly for russians. and they complain because when the package arrives they find paper with putin inside

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Alarmingly well preserved head of Portuguese serial killer Diogo Alves from 19th century. Currently a tourist attraction at Faculty of Medicine at Lisbon University

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Forest Ray Colson was a 27 year old robber who terrorized supermarkets in San Gabriel California in early 1950's. Leather football helmet, goggles, gas mask, hood, and tight-fitting black clothes with boots earned him the nickname Man from Mars

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Question: Do you people enjoy these? I can't sense even a hint of shrimp or prawn in mine, only vinegar

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China build the biggest pigpen and slaughterhouse in the world. 26 stories tall and 800k square meters will be capable of processing 1.2 milion pigs every year

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🔥🔥 You're looking at the biggest freshwater invertebrate in the world. Giant Tasmanian Crayfish, during it's enormous 60 year lifespan it grows nearly meter long and 15 pounds heavy. Estimates put their numbers at 100k remaining

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Crossover nobody asked for, but everyone needed. F1 and DB. Poster from June 1990 Shonen Jump was drawn by Akira Toriyama himself

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Little known Australian M1 Abrams based AGDS proposed by famous engineer James Michael O'Dwyer. Over two hundred of Metal Storm stacked projectile 40 mm cannons that would clear the skies of anything in seconds

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Patron sleepy..... (* ^ ω ^)

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40mm grenade launcher adapter for 18 small-caliber rounds fired in one salvo

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Kalashnikov was living in 1946. Korobov on the other hand was living in 2046

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The FrankenSTEN. 9 mm upper receiver mounted on the M16 lower receiver. Select fire from 32 round side mounted STEN magazines

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You're eyes are not deceiving you. It's Lathi anti tank gun with suppressor made from from an oil drum filled with steel wool and rubber shavings, then dampened with a wet mattress– it was used by criminals to steal 500k dollars from vault in 1965

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Guess who celebrated his 80th birthday today? A little hint: DNQ, DNF and DSQ in one race. This fantastic achievement will never be bested

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Nic tak nie kłuje kobiety jak szczescie mezczyzny

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Bushmaster ACR converted to 9x39 mm ammunition using Val or Vintorez magazines

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All four major contenders in the ACR program. AAI, Colt, H&K and Steyr. Whole program ended as a failure costing around 300 milion dollars

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Pile of weaponry seized by London police shortly after WW2 (1946)

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SKS rechambered to 5.56 NATO. Iragi conversion making use of M249 machine gun barrel

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Taran unguided missile complex based on T-64A from 1968. 150 kilogram missile with 65 kilogram 0.3 kt nuclear warhead Work on this stopped in 1972

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Kamov Ka-34 was a concept heavy-lift turbo-prop-powered rotary-wing aircraft from Kamov Design Bureau. Two wing mounted coaxial rotors and four counter rotating turboprops underneath

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Ricardo Rodriguez is still to this day the youngest Ferrari driver after competing at the 1961 Italian Grand Prix aged 19 years and 208 days. Sadly he's also the youngest driver to die losing his life at age 20 in 1962 Mexican GP

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Tales Australia very own .277 NGSW rifle. A drum fed support weapon will follow up soon

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🔥 Earliest known primate and therefore human ancestor is believed to be Purgatorius, a tiny shrew like mammal dating as old as 66 milion years

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Real life Ubergewehr. Australian custom made drilling. 3 vertical barrels in 10 gauge and 2 .577 Nitro on the side

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Another novelty from ShotShow: Korean 9 mm compact pistol based on 1911 but using Glock magazines

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Soviet troopers with captured American guns. Thompson and what looks like AR-15 with 25 (?) round magazine

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Unique and one of the kind factory built Colt Custom Shop wood thumbhole stock pre ban AR-15 rifle.

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Mother of all Garands. A .60 caliber study model made for initial recruit training

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The M-497 'Black Beetle' jet-powered Train, which set the US rail speed record in 1966. Record of 183.68 mph (295.6 km/h) stands to this day

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Chimera Gun built by Iraqi swat team, it combines AK receiver, HI-Power pistol grip, PKM barrel, BB gun scope, custom buttstock and magazine, M16 style charging handle

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Muzzle brakes aren't meant to be complicated. These guys try anyway

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ADAR 2-15 is a Russian civilian firearm developed from the AR-15 in the mid 2010s. The barrels are manufactured by Molot Oruzhie. Pricetag: 126k rubles or 2 thousand dollars

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KUGS HD410. Swiss pepperbox designed for self defense at the sea It has 18(!!) .410 caliber barrels. instant readiness, high firepower, usability in tight, confined spaces, and ease of operation by a non-expert user. As per current ATF regulations, the HD410 cannot be imported in the USA.

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This Hydra is far from dead. Squad Support Weapon SSW-40. Unearthed on Eurosatory few months ago it's still in the active development

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SVT-40 hacked down into pistol form, with a PPSh barrel shroud welded on

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KB-ST GNOM a very crude foldable pistol made in Ukraine somewhere in late 90's Chambered for 9mm Makarov, feeds from 20 round magazine

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Colt 703 or M16A2 was an experimental AR-15 derived assault rifle with AK style long stroke piston. Only two exist in possession of Knight's Armaments Company

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Armstrong Whitworth Tail-First Fighter Project from 1940's

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Just a two weeks ago a Rolls Royce of .45 Auto pistols popped out on the RIA auction. Of the few extremely striking and rare Sokolosvky .45 Automaster. Final price was 23500 dollars

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The hunting variant of Galil rifle - IMI Hadar II semi-automatic rifle with .308 Winchester

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Curious 50 round conveyor belt magazine for Ruger 10/22

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Early mock-up of the OICW from the 1990's. Grenade launcher here was located to the left of the 5.56 barrel

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Browning HP modified for car fire with compensator and detachable buttstock. Sold as a Registered Class 3 weapon on auction for 120k dollars

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H&K 437 Sneaker. First revealed in 2017 integrally very similar to H&K 433 but chambered in .300 Blackout. in the fall of 2022, Hekler-Koch announced a contract with the police of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein for the supply of 400 HK437 assault rifles to replace 9mm HK MP5 submachine guns

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Colt AR-15 M5 SAWS. Placing recoil spring above receiver made the foldable stock possible

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Short lived Taurus 28 Gauge Revolver. It appeared first in SHOT show in LA in 2011. However it never made it to the production and no official statement was made by Taurus about it again.

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oni tyle wpierdola? XDDDD

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American single-shot pistol based on the Remington 40X, chambered in .223 Rem.

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The Caselman Air-Powered Machine Gun is an air gun designed to shoot .30 caliber slugs on full auto with approximately the same muzzle energy as a .32 ACP pistol. It was designed by Jeff Caselman in the 1980s as a way for any person to legally own a machine gun, one with enough power for self-defens

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Self defense weapon developed by MBAssociates (company responsible for Gyrojet) It's a single fire gun using a CO2 canister that launches a bag of pellets

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CIA report about AKM rifle from september 1965

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Cameleon revolver designed by ice rink technician Karel Michalek in czechoslovakia around 1989

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Me: Bullpup revolver doesn't exist, it can't hurt you. Bullpup revolver:

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Have you ever seen an AK chambered for .45 cal? No? Then here it is

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Skorpion for aspiring gangsters. Intratec Tec 22

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Soviet TOZ-106 bolt action 20 gauge shotgun

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Another mutant. Water cooled MG15

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Kel-Tec M43 is a really sexy rifle. Very cool mix of steel and wood

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(1942) Baltiets a soviet clone of Walter PP chambered in 7.62 TT. During the tests in harsh cold it surpassed standard issue TT in both accuracy and reliability. Production never happened due to blockade of Leningrad. Of 14 made only 3 survived

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One of museum's here in poland had this mysterious unidentified machine pistol

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Calico M100 Sporter with a 100 round drum

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Mauser IKW Triplex bullet based on 7.62 NATO. Tested on G3 rifle with tapered bore adaptor somewhere in the 1967

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M60 with an experimental 400 round backpack feeding system developed in 1968 by Limited War Laboratory. 17 were sent to nam for testing in 1969. While functional it prevented soldier from carrying his stands backpack thus is went nowhere

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Meet the romanian stechkin with the coolest name. Dracula md.98

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J.Browning Flapper Rifle. One of the his very first gas operated prototypes that laid for many guns success. Today the Flapper is where is always should have been back in Utah, on display in the Browning Firearms Museum at Ogden’s Union Station.

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Absolutely unique and unusual submachine gun developed by Shpitalniy in 1943. Photo from new book covering Tula weapons

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Insanely crude M1911 bootleg made in vietcong jungle workshop

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General EarleBus Wheeler watching a finnish soldier with AK rifle during his visit as a chief of staff in 1963. Unspecified numbers of rifles were purchased until domestic RK 62 production gain momentum

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załosna jestes dwuskrzelowa, nara

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McCrudden light machine rifle. Australian recoil operated 303 british prototype developed in late 1910's. Containing only 7 movable parts it was super foolproof to use, reportedly as operating a throttle

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VBR GP a 9 mm handgun hammered down to resemble a revolver by VBR Belgium

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Ewidentnie widac ze biznes szewski nie idzie z duchem czasu

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Experimental 12.7 mm sniper rifle SC-129 based on Adov's 6mm prototype. Very little information is available on it. It's possible however that it had some impact on ShAK-12 assault rifle system.

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Sichuan submachine gun is a chinese 7.62 mauser smg build during chinese civil war in workshops in Chongqing, then part of the Sichuan province.

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Experimental shortened Valmet from mid 1980's. Never entered serial production

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Lee Enfield SBR (Short barrel rifle)

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AJ-56 was a prototype polish submachine gun from 50's developed by Bolesław Jurek. Unusuall short recoil action and magazine interchangeable with PPS 43. It never entered serial production

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GD-OTS' RM277 automatic rifle variant, aiming to replace both M4 and M249. Chambered in .277 TVCM, a 6.8mm cartridge with a polymer case.

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OTs-69 was a mysterious .45 submachine gun with underbarrel grenade launcher. It first appeared in 2012 and then disappeared completely, little more is known about it

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Bandayevsky RB-12. Russian 12 gauge pump action shotgun from early 1990's. Marketed for self defense and law enforcement it was commercial failure, only 50 were made and are now sought after collectibles

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19th century whaling gun developed by Oliver Allen and produced by Christopher C. Brand. 28mm, percussion lock, made out of cast iron. Ment to fire a bomb lance a explosive spear in a wooden shaft

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This almost barrelless pistol was made from a sawn-off German rifle and a MG.42 machine gun handle by the Czechoslovak underground workers.

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Baby step towards Garand. A 1903 Springfield conversion into a self loading rifle. 1917

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PT-2001 was a Polish concept for deep modernization of aging T-72M1 tanks to NATO standard with new turret and 120 mm gun

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Holland & Holland double express Royal Deluxe 7x65R 24 rifle. Company advertises that 850 hours of work is put into every rifle, each tailored for shooter. It also came with ostrich skin holstered case. Pricetag was around 95k dollars and it isn't their most expensive product

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Another small collection of obscure soviet assault rifle prototype from late 40's. Shpagin, Kuzmishchev, Bulking and Kubynov

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wincyj gowniakow, mieszkanie wytrzyma

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Carbine Williams 4th and final prison rifle. Floating chamber short stroke piston. It worked but creator later did not allow anyone to fire it

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Four-barrel BG-009 tear gas pistol, 1992. Made on the basis of the SPP-1M underwater pistol.

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Not forgotten but definitely vintage. Remington 760, 30.06 pump action rifle, with 10 round magazine

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Karabinek wz. 2005 Jantar - Polish prototype assault rifle in a bullpup system , created by simply redesigning the wz. 96 Beryl.

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Taiwanese gangsters 12 gauge DIY handgun revolver

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MP61. Erma's unsuccessful attempt to get back to the top of submachine gun business

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Soviet VADS system. A 20 mm M-163 Vulcan Cannon mounted on BTR-152 APC. Location is possibly Egypt Yemen or Lebanon

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RA-15 carbine based on AR-15 platform and chambered for 5.45x39mm cartridge from Russian Arms Company

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SAAB LX swedish supersonic delta wing interceptor concept from 1940's. It's armament consisted of 12 guided missiles

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Russian MBT 2000: T-55M6. It combines the venerable T-55 hull with turret and armament from T-72B. It was presented in Omsk in 2001 but failed to entice any customers

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HK GR2C an assault carbine developed from HK 53 designed to be used by special forces around 1990's

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This absolute UNIT of a crocodile with tasty snack Judging by the teeth it's probably ancient too

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Dual Cycle Rifle (DCR for short) is a machine revolver-type assault rifle that used a unique gas operation with a Webley-Fosbery-type grooved cylinder enabling 3-round burst capabilities at a rate of 4,900 rounds per minute.

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MAX-41A a combination of 9 mm machine gun and shotgun built to resemble M41A Pulse rifle developed by Lage Manufacturing. However there no plans for commercial production

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January 2, 143th birthday of Vasily Alekseevich Degtyarev. In the photo below - his experimental light machine gun from 1943

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Wait a second. You... You work, you cook...and you like sports?...I love you!

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Savin's 64P an early assault rifle chambered in 7.63x54R. USSR 1942

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Innovative Arms Super Fun Gun or SFG is an american integrally suppressed submachine gun made by Innovative Arms. .22lr, open bolt, accepts mags from Ruger 10/22

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Conders Maschinengewehr prototypical light machine gun developed in Rochling'sche Eisen- und Stahlwerke GmbH by August Conders c.late 1930. Despite phenomenal rate of fire (2200-2400 rounds per minute) Wehrmacht wasn't impressed and MG 42 was chosen instead

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Colt's space age .22 prototype pistol. Sold at auction for 5.5 thousand dollars

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Mocno archiwalny obrazek przed inflacyjny. To były lepsze czasy

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Polish Lantan assault rifle prototype. Chambered for innovative 7x41 mm cartridge

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Ar-18 Shorty with a built in pistol foregrip, wooden forearm and flash suppressor cone

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BSA GPMG a 7.62 machine gun developed by Josef Vesely in 1952. Basically a belt fed conversion of Bren. In 1957 it competed in trials against M60, FN MAG, AA-52, Madsen-Saetter and SIG MP710 and lost due to high production costs

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Afanasyev's TKB-0136-3M a contender in Abakan project known for its ridiculous rate of fire (2000/m) meaning it could empty it's 30 round mag in 0.9 second

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Great grandfather to P90. A british self loading rifle patent from 1915

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Unusual bolt action carbine chambered for 9x23mm Largo, model JUPITER of the company Suinaga y Aramberri from Eibar, 1924

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Special Operations Weapon a fully automatic 12 gauge shotgun designed to be used by US Navy SEALs in the Vietnam War, by Carroll Childers, an engineer at the Naval Special Weapons Center.

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This spectacular crash of two Tyrrells at Eau Rouge in 1987 Belgian. Miraculously both Jonathan Palmer and Philip Streiff came out unharmed despite the latter car completely ripping in half

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Armi Jager AP75 a Italian semi automatic rifle chambered in 7.65mm Browning pistol cartridge

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Kobchenko experimental disc magazine for PPSh-41. It was rejected, it presented no advantage over standard drum

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T-26 (BPK) a twin turreted variant of T-26 tank armed with two 76.2 mm recoilless guns designed by L.V. Kurchevsky in 1934. This unusual armament was plagued with issues which would eventually cost it's creators life in 1937

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Yakovlev VVP-6 an extremely massive six rotor helicopter from 1960's. It's primary function was a rapid deployment of S75 missiles into orcish wilderness

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Ever heard about twin bren before? It's chinese, feeds from 2 30 round ak mags, 7.62x39 , sole surviving example currently resides in Tongzhou militia museum

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Japanese Type 14 Nambu that was rebored from rather weak 8x22 mm ammo to significantly more powerful 9x19 mm ammo. Weapon worthy of only the bestest samurais

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Starfish magazine. Ultimag 10R Pentagon Magazine Kit from FAB Defence

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California Rifles Featureless U15 stocks, designed to avoid California assault rifle ban. Clearly influenced by similar stock used on Benet Mercie and Type 11 lmgs

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Konstantinov SA-1 a 7.62x39mm assault rifle prototype developed in USSR in 1963. It used unusual inverted bullpup layout with pistol grip placed above receiver, it was deemed unvieldy and way too radical, later evolved into more conventional SA-001

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Berries and flowers, various types of dumdums and their expansion

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B&T VP9 is a manually repeating suppressed pistol, integrally almost identical to Welrod. A .45 ACP version feeding from 1911 mags is imported to USA as Station SIX-45

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supertest: TS-54 an murican double barrel

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Mk 1 Underwater Defense Gun produced in late 60's by AAI Corporation. It entered service in 1970 but it was bulky, heavy and signature controlled

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Kiedy hobby wejdzie za mocno

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Nikonov's AO-222. An assault rifle with extremely offset magazine to make reload easier

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