Tactical Atlas Firearm Blog

America to field First RPG-inspired MK 777 Rocket Propelled Grenade Launcher

Despite its iconic silhouette (especially when shouldered by some Reagan-era rag-tag guerilla), rugged low cost design and pervasive use in just about every conflict since ‘Nam by both enemies and allies, the RPG-7 inexplicably never really caught fire among America’s military, aside from maybe

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Russian Website shows New Chinese ZH-05 Assault Rifle / Grenade Launcher

A handful of pictures (possibly released, possibly leaked) of what appears to be prototypes for some new Chinese combination assault rifles popped up on a couple of Eastern Bloc websites recently and are now finding their way into US circuits. Bearing a striking resemblance to the XM-29 OICW, it

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Futuristic XM25 to see Action in Afghanistan

A staple of modern warfare is the “trench.”  Get behind a wall, hunker down in a hole—conceal yourself from the enemy and you’ve got a good chance of making it through a firefight.  Well, a new gun slated to see action in Afghanistan promises to change all that.  The gun in question is the XM25

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