One of the most important military arms ever invented is the Model 1886 Lebel rifle, the first military rifle designed to use smokeless powder ammunition. This was only made possible by the French ...

With an adjustable firing rate of thirty to six hundred rounds per minute, the Puteaux fired the 8mm Lebel round, the same used in the Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun (Mle 1900). The feed system consisted ...

The 5.7x28 mm FN centerfire pistol and revolver cartridge has been accepted by the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI). Its standard specifications were published in ...

Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne (MAS) for Mle 1918. Firing tests had also shown that the Mle 1918 RSC was more accurate than both the Lebel rifle and the Mle 1917 RSC. The Mle 1918 RSC's ...

LEWISTON - David J. Lebel, 57, of Lewiston, unexpectedly passed away on Aug. 20, 2024. David was born on Oct. 23, 1966, ... LEWISTON – David J. Lebel, 57, of ...

Ukraine's strike on a Russian missile storage facility in Russia's western Tver region destroyed enough ammunition to impact Russian attacks for months, an Estonian commander said. The Institute ...

Details of the ammunition transfers are reported by Reuters for the first time. Following the publication of this report, India's foreign ministry described it as "speculative and misleading".

Former Israeli prime minister calls for UN secretary general to step down after response to Iran's attack ...

A RUSSIAN ammunition depot exploded in a huge mushroom fireball after a massive Ukrainian kamikaze strike. Dramatic footage showed the scale of the blasts in one of the biggest strikes of the war ...

A Ukrainian drone attack launched overnight destroyed an ammunition depot in the western Russian region of Tver, a source from Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) told CNN on Wednesday, causing a ...