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- Nadyozhnost’: How the Soviet Doctrine of Reliability Forged the Red Army’s Arsenal August 3, 2025The Western perception of Soviet and Russian weaponry has long been colored by a simplistic and often dismissive maxim: “crude but effective.” This phrase, while containing a kernel of truth, fundamentally misunderstands the sophisticated and deeply pragmatic philosophy that underpinned the design and production of the Soviet Union’s vast arsenal. The defining characteristics of Soviet ...
- Top 10 Soviet Small Arms Designs Misunderstood by the West August 2, 2025The enduring rivalry between Soviet and American small arms design is not a simple narrative of superior versus inferior technology. Rather, it represents two profoundly different answers to the fundamental question: “What wins wars?”.1 The American answer, shaped by a doctrine of technological supremacy and faith in the highly trained professional soldier, resulted in weapons ...
- An Analyst’s Report on Soviet Military Firearm Preservatives and Their Removal: PVK vs. Cosmoline August 1, 2025For any collector of 20th-century military surplus firearms, the experience is a familiar one: opening a wooden crate or unwrapping a paper-and-oilcloth bundle to reveal a piece of history, entombed in a thick, sticky, amber-to-dark-brown grease. This ubiquitous substance, the bane of many an enthusiast, is the primary barrier between acquiring a historical artifact and ...
- The History, Chemistry, and Strategic Imperative of Soviet Corrosive Ammunition July 30, 2025The decision by any military to adopt a particular ammunition technology is never made in a vacuum. It is the result of a complex interplay between historical experience, technological capability, strategic doctrine, and fundamental chemistry. The Soviet Union’s long-standing reliance on corrosive-primed ammunition is a quintessential example of this process. To comprehend this choice, one ...