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• Argentinian PAM 2 submachine-gun

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Fábrica Militar de Armas Portátiles 'Domingo Matheu', Rosario, Argentina

  The Argentinian PAM2 submachine-gun was closely modelled on the American M3A1 of Second World War vintage. The main differences were that it was chambered for 9mm Parabellum ammunition (rather .45 ACP) and featured a grip-safety behind the magazine...

• Argentinian FAL rifle

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre, Herstal, Belgium

  This rifle is a variant of the Belgian FAL (see FIR 10312) which was widely used in Western armies during the second half of the 20th century. It was produced under license in Argentina. Argentine FALs also retained the ability to fire fully...

• Argentinian FAL Para rifle

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Fabrica de Armas Portatiles Domingo F Matheu, Rosario, Argentina

  This rifle is a variant of the Belgian FAL (see FIR 10312) which was widely used in Western armies during the second half of the 20th century. It was produced under license in Argentina. It is the 'Para' version of the FAL, which features a folding butt...

• Sten Mk 2 type submachine-gun [Jewish underground]

  (weapons and ammunition)

  This copy of a British Mk 2 Sten machine-carbine was made by a Jewish underground group in the course of the struggle to establish a Jewish state in Palestine during the late 1940s. The Sten gun's simple design and construction made it an ideal weapon...

• Soviet SKS carbine

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Soviet State

  The SKS self-loading carbine was the creation of Soviet firearms designer S G Simonov. It was a gas-operated weapon, intended to exploit the introduction of the new Soviet M43 7.62mm cartridge. This was an 'intermediate' cartridge - less powerful than...

• Suomi M31 submachine-gun

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Oy Tikkakoski Ab, Sakara, Finland

  The Suomi (i.e.'Finland') M31 sub-machine gun was the creation of Finnish firearms designer Aimo Lahti. It was adopted for service by the Finnish Army in 1931. In common with other early sub-machineguns, the Suomi was a large and heavy weapon, made by...

• FAL rifle [Israeli late issue]

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: (assembler) Israeli Military Industries, Ramat Hasharon, Israel 1961

  The FAL (Fusil Automatique Legère) was a product of Fabrique Nationale of Belgium, being designed by a team led by Dieudonné Saive. The FAL was the product of a development process dating back to the 1930s. It was a gas-operated rifle which used a...

• US Rifle Cal .30 M1 [Garand]

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Springfield Armory, Springfield, MA, USA

  The M1 rifle was the standard US service rifle of the Second World War and the Korean War. It was a gas-operated weapon designed by John Garand of the Springfield Armory. Garand was responsible for the design of a series of self-loading rifles, which...

• AK74

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Bulgarian State

  The AK74 rifle is a development of the celebrated AK47 (see FIR 6417). The introduction of the M16 rifle (see FIR 10735), chambered for a high-velocity, small-calibre cartidge, into American service, prompted the USSR to develop an equivalent weapon...

• East German MPiKM assault rifle

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Soviet State & East German State

  The MPiKM was the East German variant of the Soviet AKM assault rifle (see FIR 6346). It differed mainly in its employment of a distinctive dimpled plastic butt. In this it is typical of the infantry weapons of most armies of the Warsaw Pact -...