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Assume gunpowder is invented, studied, improved-upon and refined in prehistory, what would be the large-scale implications of such a discovery on culture, religion, warfare, superstition, traditions, etc? How would this affect the rise and fall of certain empires or peoplegroups in this...

This thread is mostly a repository for all my Alt weapons and vehicles I made and are dispersed on both the Alternate Weapons of War and the Alternate History Combat Aircraft threads, as well as miscellaneous art and ideas that don't really fit current threads. Have fun and enjoy !

What if the USA did not ban importation of “military style assault weapons” between 1989 and 2004? We are primarily discussing how this ban affected civilian gun-owners.

While we generally associate revolvers with the mid-19th Century or later, there were attempts at revolving guns going back to the 1500s. The immediate predecessor of the famed Colt Paterson in the 1830s was the Collier Revolver invented about 15 to 20 years earlier: These weapons had an...

Two French guns ahead of their time: the Ribeyrolles-Sutter-Chauchat 1918 short rifle, and the Ribeyrolles 1918 automatic rifle. The French switched from 8mm caliber to 7.5mm in 1924 (and then to a 54mm case in '29). Let's suppose they modify both weapons to take a 7.5×35mm cartridge (call it...

Taking a POD of before 1900 but after 1750, what's the absolute earliest that a fully automatic machine gun based on the same or similar principles of the Maxim gun (or any other possible automatic loading mechanism) can be invented and soon after adopted by major militaries, mass produced, and...

I wonder why army (especially during WW1, inter-war and WW2) never converted automatic rifle (like the Chauchat, Browing, Huot or Fg-42) into semi-auto rifle and issued it as standart infantry rifle. Was it the cost ? The mechanic ? Or politic/ideology ? Asking help from more knowledgeable...

Suppose another culture found arquebus-equivalent before Europeans. Would the basic shape of that arquebus (crossbow-like trigger, armpit-stock, etc) still same as OTL?

Suppose another culture found arquebus-equivalent before Europeans. Would the basic shape of that arquebus (crossbow-like trigger, armpit-stock, etc) still same as OTL?

I quote Needham, that genius of Chinese history (but getting rid of that dastardly Wade-Giles). This is Needham's source: In the beginning of the Kangxi reign-period (+1673) Geng Jingzhong rebelled in Zhejiang, and Prince Giyesu led a government army south to overcome the uprising. Dai Zi as a...

What if the Winchester G30 was scaled down for a smaller, more powerful cartridge than the .30 Carbine, and this became the M1 carbine? What if a rifle was made based on this carbine, and this became America's next service rifle, to be refined and upgraded over the decades? 1938 The Army...