Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

Over years, Glock customers used model numbers as the identifier: the size, the caliber, the generation, and believe that it is going to remain in the catalog. The assumption has been diluted as the firm sheds commercial versions and swings towards a leaner “baseline" set. Corporate housekeeping is not...

Big strategic weapons projects are undertakings that often pass without incident, until they fail. The RS-28 Sarmat was billed as an intended Russian follow-up to the R-36M2 Voevoda: a high-throw-weight follow-on to the R-36M2, designed to maintain a certain type of nuclear deterrence that smaller solid-fuel missiles cannot match. Rather,...

Modern 9mm pistols never became dominant due to one breakthrough. The conquest was by a pile of engineering choices some within the cartridge, some within the pistol, and a great many within the interfaces between the two. What is then provided is a technical examination of the design decisions which...