Some years ago I wrote on the Tokagypt, Hungary’s postwar version of the WWII Soviet TT-33 originally for an Egyptian order, but later as the Firebird notorious within European law enforcement as “the terrorist’s delight”. In passing I mentioned the Tokagypt’s forgotten brother, the Walam.
Below is a look at the Walam, and information about postwar PPs / PPKs in general including odd meetups of a WWII firearm and modern trademark infringement.
The M4 Sherman was the main American tank type of WWII. After the war, it saw additional combat worldwide – first as a tank in its original WWII form, then in following decades through various upgrades, and in rebuilt form for non-tank uses.
One of the more remarkable of the latter was the Kilshon, an Israeli system to destroy the radars controlling and guiding enemy surface-to-air missiles (SAMs).
(US Army M4 Sherman tank in action during WWII.)
(The Israeli Kilshon ARM launch vehicle, which used a WWII Sherman as the lower portion.)
Sadly the military history of Lebanon will, at least for the near future, be dominated by the horrible 1970s – 1980s civil war. The country did have military history prior to that, including WWII-era warplanes in its early air force.
(Lebanese air force Harvard, the RAF’s name for WWII lend-leased T-6 Texan trainers.)
(Lebanese air force SM.79 bomber. The country was the last in the world to fly this WWII Italian warplane.)
Since starting wwiiafterwwii, I have wanted to do something on this topic but was unsure how to approach it. I am interested in how WWII weapons performed in battle against Cold War replacements. But also, it is fascinating to consider how they ended up where they did after WWII……how did a Garand built to fight Imperial Japan end up in the Somali desert in the 1970s, or how did a Waffen-SS sturmgewehr end up in 21st century Damascus?
(An ex-Wehrmacht NbW 42 Nebelwerfer with Interarms markings in the 1960s.)
Besides French service, the MAS-36 saw significant use abroad after World War Two.
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