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VZ91/38 carbine: Very similar to the M91/59, it is an M38-style carbine produced by cutting down Model 1891 infantry, dragoon, and Cossack rifles. Few of these carbines exist, and the reason for their creation remains unclear.
The Model 91/98/23 carbine (Karabinek wz. 1891/1898/1923) often shortened to kbk wz. 91/98/23, and its variants wz. 91/98/25 and wz. 91/98/26, were a Polish modification of the Mosin–Nagant M1891 rifle to carbine form. The Mosin rifle was shortened and converted to use the 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge. The carbine was introduced as an interim ...
The Type 38 rifle (三八式歩兵銃, sanhachi-shiki hoheijū) is a bolt-action service rifle that was used by the Empire of Japan predominantly during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Second World War. [9] The design was adopted by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1905 (the 38th year of the Meiji period, hence "Type 38").
Antique firearms can be divided into two basic types: muzzle-loading and cartridge firing. Muzzleloading antique firearms are not generally owned with the intent of firing them (although original muzzleloaders can be safely fired, after having them thoroughly inspected), but instead are usually owned as display pieces or for their historic value.
This is a list of weapons used by the Spanish Republican side of the Spanish Civil War.The majority of Republican military equipment was obtained through the Soviet Union who supported the Spanish Republicans through shipments of Soviet arms and arms from other countries in the possession of the Soviet Union from past Russian conflicts.
Miles M.38 Messenger, a 1942 British four-seat liaison aircraft; Messier 38, an open star cluster in the constellation Auriga; Model 1938 Carbine, a version of the Mosin-Nagant rifle; HMS Atherstone (M38) a British minesweeper; MAS-38, a French WWII submachine gun; M38 DMR, a designated marksman rifle used by the United States Marine Corps ...
A carbine (/ ˈ k ɑːr b iː n / or / ˈ k ɑːr b aɪ n /), [1] from French carabine, [2] is a long arm firearm but with a shorter barrel than a rifle or musket. [3] Many carbines are shortened versions of full-length rifles, shooting the same ammunition, while others fire lower-powered ammunition, typically ranging from pistol/PDW to intermediate rifle cartridges.
The PE scope (Russian: Винтовочный оптический прицел образца 1931 г. [1] or ПЕ, often called Прицел Емельянова, or Yemelyanov's sight [2] or Прицел Единый or Standard sight) is a family of Soviet telescopic sights, used from 1930s onwards on Mosin-Nagant sniper rifles, as well as SVT and AVS rifles. [2]