Guns from 1960 to 1969
The Cold War brewed all manner of warfare following World War 2, as typified by the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia.
1963
The Hungarian AKM-63 was a modernized version of the fabled Soviet Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle series - in much the same ...
1967
With the AKM-63 firmly entrenched as the standard-issue Hungarian assault rifle, attention was given to developing a like-min...
1964
The German Anschutz Model 64 MP-R was a bolt-action rifle appearing in 1964 and popularized through its use in vermin game hu...
1963
With Eugene Stoner's AR-15 rifle design firmly entrenched as the M16 under production by Colt, his Armalite firm turned to th...
1961
The Skorpion submachine gun is originally of Czechoslovakian origin and was designed in the late 1950s and formally introduce...
1968
The US military attempted - through several notable endeavors - to provide a capable squad-level repeating grenade launcher d...
1969
The M203 40mm grenade launcher is a single-shot system that was designed to be attached under the barrel of an assault rifle ...
1966
Despite its caliber, the Colt Commando is classified as a submachine gun and was developed from the successful AR-15. The AR-...
1963
The Dragunov SVD sniper rifle is an automatic rifle based on the Kalashnikov rifle series. The weapon system was the standard...
1963
The British L7 GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun - though sometimes called 'Gimpy' or 'Jimpy') series is based on the hugely ...
1968
The FIM-43 "Redeye" was a man-portable anti-aircraft missile launcher requiring only a single crewmember to operate it. Desig...
1965
The General Electric GAU-17/A "minigun" represents the crew-served version of the Vietnam-era General Electric M134 helicopte...
1965
The US Army General Electric M134 minigun six-barrel 7.62mm gatling gun was a derivative of the original General Electric M61...
1961
In 1949, Heckler & Koch GmbH was formed at Oberndorf am Neckar in West Germany to become a small arms weapons designer and ma...
1962
The Heckler & Koch HK32KA1 carbine was designed for the military market that revolved around the firing of the Soviet 7.62x39...
1969
The Heckler & Koch HK G11 Caseless rifle design was in every way a revolutionary weapon departing from several traditional de...
1966
One of the most popular submachine guns ever produced, the Heckler & Koch HK MP5 ("Maschinenpistole 5") became a common sight...
1964
After World War 2, the Japanese were a conquered people with the United States acting as majority overseers. As such, their d...
1967
The AGS-17 "Plamya" (or "Flame") is a Soviet-produced automatic grenade launcher similar in scope to the American Mk 19 serie...
1963
The F1 submachine gun replaced the World War 2-era Owen submachine gun series then in service with the Australian Army. By th...
1960
The M18 Claymore anti-personnel mine was specifically designed to kill or maim enemy ground troops approaching a position fro...
1961
Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union served as the potential enemy to Europe and the US military, in large part, was cha...
1963
The M72 LAW was the standard shoulder-fired anti-armor weapon for the United States military and its allies throughout the Co...
1961
The M79 was a standard single-shot, squad-support weapon that made its initial appearance with American troops during the Vie...
1967
The Chinese Type 67 is a direct production copy of the Soviet PK series of successful squad automatic weapons developed in th...
1960
While the dagger proved critical to assassinations and close-in fighting throughout ancient history, it still served a purpos...
1965
The original British Ordnance ML 3-inch Mortar of World War 2 proved its worth and then some throughout the global conflict. ...
1965
The PK General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) is a highly respected weapon that was added to the Soviet Army arsenal to replace t...
1966
Long-time gun maker Remington introduced their bolt-action "Model 700" rifle series in 1962 to the American public and police...
1963
Despite its introduction in 1963, the Remington Model 1100 remains one of the most popular game shotguns around and has seen ...
1962
The Remington Model 700 (M700) rifle series appears in civilian, police and military guises. Production by Remington Arms beg...
1968
The German Army MG series was developed when the Federal Republic of Germany was allowed to reinvest in small arms following ...
1960
In need of a modern automatic service rifle, the South African government trialed the American AR-10 rifle, the West German G...
1969
The M21 was developed from the standard M14 rifle, itself a further development of the highly successful World War 2-era M1 G...
1961
The RPG-7 was the Soviet-produced follow-up in the RPG family series of man-portable, anti-tank rocket launchers unveiled in ...
1961
The RPK , Ruchnoi Pulemyot Kalashnikova, entered service in 1961 as a powerful firearm, developed from the PK series of weapo...
1968
The SA-7 (NATO designation of "Grail" or Soviet designation of "Strela-2") is a MANPAD system - a portable shoulder launched ...
1967
Design of the Mk 19 system began in 1966 by the Naval Ordnance Center out of Louisville with the required evaluations followi...
1969
The Steyr MPi 69 was an UZI-influenced submachine gun of Austrian origin intended for military and security use. It was chamb...
1963
The M63A1 Stoner machine gun was the last production small arms Stoner weapon made. The system was designed as a light machin...
1963
Southerner Jere H. Tarpley of Greensboro, North Carolina developed his aptly-named, breech-loading "Tarpley Carbine" of .52 ...
1967
The Chinese Type 51 was nothing more than a locally-produced Chinese copy of the famed Soviet Tokarev TT-33 semi-automatic pi...
1968
The Chinese took to local-license production of the Soviet SKS self-loading rifle (SLR) in the 1950s. The rifle proved reliab...
1960
After World War 2, the Soviet Union maintained something of a presence in Finland. While not outright occupying the nation, t...
1964
The Model 1200 was a capable pump-action, full-size shotgun developed for a variety of markets including civilian, sporting a...
1968
The XM174 was an experimental 40mm automatic grenade launcher born from the fighting during the Vietnam War. The design emerg...
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