I don’t know how many readers have an interest in military bureaucracy. Probably not many.
This is a look at how WWII-legacy weapons were cataloged in the Foreign Materiel Catalog, the FOMCAT, a now-forgotten US Army publication of the Cold War era.
I don’t know how many readers have an interest in military bureaucracy. Probably not many.
This is a look at how WWII-legacy weapons were cataloged in the Foreign Materiel Catalog, the FOMCAT, a now-forgotten US Army publication of the Cold War era.
Perhaps the most “out of place” thing in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War is a machine gun not only of the second world war but also the first.
(Soviet PM M1910 in action during the WWII battle of Kursk.)
(Ukrainian army soldiers training with paired PM M1910s during 2024.)