At the age of 20, this woman parachuted into France nine days before the Allied advance and helped sabotage German war efforts. Her code name was Agent Blanche, she was one of 3,000 secret warrior women of Britain’s Special Operations Executive. […]
Category: Historical
The Stoner 63 Weapon System
The term ‘weapon system’ is often overused and misapplied these days, but in the case of the famous Stoner 63, it is totally applicable. Soon after leaving ArmaLite, Eugene Stoner devised a concept for a weapons platform built around a common receiver and interchangeable components that could be configured as a rifle, carbine and several […]
Heckler & Koch HK11E
The HK11E 7.62x51mm Light Machine Gun introduced a 3-round burst firing mode, a long receiver and a “drum” type sight. The operator could switch to and from a magazine or belt-feed with slight modification. G8 and G8A1 The German Army, German Navy and the Federal Police use a variant of the HK11 designated the […]