ELLICOTT CITY, Md. – His service in uniform began with a lie.Nearly 90 years later that service was honored with the ...
Often overlooked, the French "Charleville" infantry musket was one of the most significant longarms of the 18th and 19th ...
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Why the French military kept this sniper rifle for so long

In 1986 the French Army adopted the FR-F2 as its standard sniper rifle - a retrofit of the earlier FR-F1 fitted with new 7.62 mm NATO barrels, flexible bipods, and thermal sleeves rather than a newly ...
During World War I, France - though a major producer of rifles and machine guns - had to import large numbers of handguns from abroad. Among these were 5,000 Colt Government Model 1911 pistols ...