The Royal Air Force’s Avro Lancaster and Handley Page Halifax are considered by many aviation historians to be among the most capable heavy bombers of the Second World War. However, neither were the RAF’s first four-engine bomber. Overshadowed by the Lancaster’s success was the ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a 1911 built by people who were not in the gun business at all. Cabot Guns came out of Penn United Technologies in Cabot, Pennsylvania, a carbide tooling shop that grew out of a three bay garage and now turns out precision parts for aerospa...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have the pistol that gave us 10mm Auto, caught in its second prototype form. Tom Dornaus and Mike Dixon started kicking this idea around in 1979. They wanted more rounds and more punch than a 1911 or a 357 revolver could hand a cop, and they bro...
The names of firearms designers such as John Moses Browning, Mikhail Kalashnikov and Eugene Morrison Stoner are synonymous with iconic firearms. Stoner was a prolific firearms designer who was responsible for the AR-7 U.S. Air Force survival rifle, the AR-10 rifle, the SR-25, and, of course, the ...
National Harbor, MD — September 14, 2026 — Simplesense, Inc and Digital Force Technologies, LLC (DFT) today announced a $3.4M award to integrate DFT’s SeraphimOS™ sensor fusion platform into the Installation Resilience Operations Command & Control (IROC) prototype at an Air Fo...
Watchtower Defense has a new pistol in development, and TFB has the latest information and images. This is a 9mm double-stack 1911 pistol built at the company's facility in Tomball, Texas. The Vaelon is intended to be the flagship model in its handgun lineup.
Though it’s been about a century and a quarter since John Browning first graced us with the .45 ACP, it’s not tremendously difficult to see why it’s still with us. While some gravitate to the cartridge due to nostalgia or a connection with America’s military past, just as many people reco...
Kalashnikov Concern and Tula Cartridge Plant (TPZ) continue work on a new assault rifle cartridge. This has sparked new public interest after the publication of a Russian patent RU 2809501 C1. The Tula Cartridge Plant developed the new assault rifle ammunition in collaboration with the Kalashniko...
In general, Bosnian defense manufacturers are not very well known in the US. But there is one important exception – AC Unity, a company from the town of Goražde, known to US and international customers for its polymer magazines for AK, AR-15, and MP5s, which TFB reviewed several years ago.
The argument can be made that the Germans make the world’s best engineers. By way of evidence I would submit the StG44 assault rifle, the Me 262 jet fighter, and the Panther tank. While, in each case, the exigencies of around-the-clock bombing certainly took a toll on these revolutionary weapon...