Documenting Military Hardware from various conflicts and militaries around the World, many of the pics and footage you see here aren't mine, they are from open sources.
A supply of British 2 inch mortar rounds, "Toffee Apples", stashed in a reserve trench.
Posted 3rd May 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
German officer inspecting a captured Hotchkiss machine gun from a French Schneider CA-1 tank that has been adapted to anti-aircraft use. WW1
Archives of the Syrian War: An insurgent sniper aims his Customized FN FAL DMR build to target SAA troops in Idlib front, 2022
Posted 2nd May 2026r/FNFAL
Montenegro troops wearing civilian winter clothing while aiming their Mosin-Nagant rifles, 1914 WW1
Posted 2nd May 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
Belgian soldier with his Mauser M1889 Bike in France WW1
Czech adoption of the Schwarloze machine gun, they had a number of modifications including rechambering the gun to 7.92×57mm Mauser, a lighter bolt, shorter recoil spring and extension of the barrel by 100 mm. They were dubbed Vz.07/24 when in service in the 1920s and 1930s
Posted 1st May 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
The auto loader of the AMX-30 AuF1 Self Propelled Artillery
Posted 1st May 2026r/tanks
Posted 1st May 2026r/TankPorn
M61 "Vulcan" 20mm rotary cannon mounted on the back of a Toyota pickup truck, used by pro Yemeni national government tribal fighters during a parade in 2025
Posted 30th Apr 2026r/shittytechnicals
Posted 30th Apr 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
Swiss cold war tank, the Panzer 61
Posted 30th Apr 2026r/tanks
Swiss army soldiers firing their STG 57 battle rifles during training, 1970s
M113M APC with BRDM-2 turret in Yemen, 2010s
Posted 29th Apr 2026r/shittytechnicals
Posted 29th Apr 2026r/TankPorn
One of the more locally rare firearms in Yemen.The French made MAS 1949-56 rifle This rifle comes in 7.5x54mm French caliber, which is also locally rare or possibly nonexistent now in Yemen. This piece was photographed in 2024
Posted 29th Apr 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
Volvo BV202 used by Royal Marines during the campaign in the South Atlantic. 1980s
British Policeman with an HK 33 5.56mm assault rifle and a huge weapon light, 1986 period.
A bunch of west German Kanonenjagdpanzer tank destroyers during the cold war
Posted 29th Apr 2026r/tanks
West German soldier with a PzF 44 anti tank weapon
AMX-13 with SS.11. ATGM system
Posted 28th Apr 2026r/TankPorn
French Army OPFOR using AA-52 GPMG during NATO training in Italy, 1999.
Posted 28th Apr 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
Assaulter of the Italian Navy GOI special team “Torre” at the firing range in 1973, early days of Italy’s new counterterrorism unit modeled after Pagoda Team. He has a Beretta M12 SMG.
A masked IRA (Irish Republican Army) militant with an AR-180 during the "Troubles"
First combat use of FN MAG GPMG - Belgian Commando in Congo, 1964.
Swedish Army Pbv 302 APC in Bosnia, 1995 period.
Posted 27th Apr 2026r/tanks
Posted 27th Apr 2026r/TankPorn
Swedish FFV 890C 5.56mm Carbine based on Galil from the 1980s.
Posted 27th Apr 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
Greek Navy Commandos with Colt Model 733 5.56mm carbines, 2025.
RM-51 130mm MLRS (on Steyr truck chassis) in Austrian Service, 2000 period.
Posted 27th Apr 2026r/shittytechnicals
Austrian Troops armed with MG 74 GPMG and Steyr AUG 1, early 2000s period.
Macedonian Police SOF member armed with a Bulgarian made AR-SF 7.62x39mm Carbine, 2000s.
Posted 26th Apr 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
Video of French Saint Chamond tanks on the Western Front during WW1
Posted 26th Apr 2026r/tanks
Posted 26th Apr 2026r/TankPorn
Testing stand for Vickers machine gun with synchronising gear as fitted to aeroplane.
Posted 25th Apr 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
Traverse and elevation of the starboard gun battery on the 1918 Mark VIII "Liberty" tank
Posted 25th Apr 2026r/tanks
Posted 25th Apr 2026r/TankPorn
Austro-Hungarian soldiers prepare a 12cm Pneumatic Luftminenwerfer (trench mortar) M.16. A notable advantage with a pneumatic mortar was that it had no firing signature, unlike conventional mortars with smoke and muzzle flash. WW1
British Amphibous Mark IX Tank , 1918.
Posted 24th Apr 2026r/tanks
M1903 Springfield with Warner & Swasey Model 1913 telescopic sight serving as the first official US sniper rifle during the First World War
Posted 24th Apr 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
The process of converting Old Lee Enfield rifles to 7.62x54R in Iraq. because .303 British are too expensive and rare, Iraqi gunsmiths started the practice of swapping the original barrel with a PKM/PKT barrel so it can take the common 7.62x54R rounds
French soldier demonstrating a mobile gun-shield, February 10, 1916. WW1
Posted 23rd Apr 2026r/shittytechnicals
Italian munitions worker inserting the fuse of an Excelsior-Thévenot P2 "ballerina" hand-grenade in a factory in Milan, 1917.
Posted 23rd Apr 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
US Army Ordnance Department personnel pose with experimental body armor tested against pistol, rifle and machine gun fire at Fort de Peigney in France in 1918
Posted 22nd Apr 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
Two German waffen SS soldiers. One carries a Mauser C96 M712 Schnellfeuer pistol, 1942
Austro-Hungarian Kraftfahrtruppen's anti-aircraft system which consists of a single Schwarzlose machine-gun that is mounted on the rear seating compartment of a touring car during WW1.
Posted 21st Apr 2026r/shittytechnicals
Austro-Hungarian anti-aircraft gunners manning a Schwarzlose machine gun on a tripod attached to a tree stump in the Vento region of Italy. WW1
Posted 21st Apr 2026r/ForgottenWeapons
Belgian soldiers posing with FM 15/27 LMG. Which is the the Belgian version of the French Chauchat. It's chambered in 7.65x54mm Mauser cartridge and had a redesigned box type magazine.
One of the more desperate last ditch weapons of WW2, the Bambo spears, at later stages in 1945, the Imperial Japanese government had conscripted civilians and back line units train in using premitive improvised bambo spears in preparation for an allied invasion of Japan due to severe ammo shortage
Showing 50 posts out of a possible 50.