Guns Guns Guns

My search of tank archive materials, unsurprisingly, has led me to accumulate a sizeable amount of firearms related materials are well. Since I hate to see good documents go to waste, I've been somewhat blurring the scope of "tank archives" recently, as well as translating documents for the military surplus thread at the Something Awful forums.

Over only 8 months, this blog has grown from a time waster to win arguments on the internet to a pretty serious resource with thousands of readers per day. Since I don't have nearly as many sources pertaining to firearms or an internet forum full of huge flame wars to generate traffic loyal audience, the other blog might not grow quite as much or update as often, but I hope it will be just as interesting.

Without further ado, Soviet Gun Archives!

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! As some of you may already know, I post of the World of Tanks forums a lot. Mysteriously, a large amount of my content seems to disappear for some reason, despite all the effort I put in. So, in order for it to be left on the internet forever, I am going to put it up here. Despite my World of Tanks affiliation, this is not a blog about World of Tanks, so you will not find many posts, if any at all, related to that game.

The Wargaming Livejournal, litl-bro, and Yuri Pasholok, post a large amount of historical documents, many of which contain very interesting information, but the vast majority of tank enthusiasts simply don't know enough Russian to be able to enjoy them! I will translate excerpts of documents I find interesting and post them here. If something in those links strikes your fancy, you can always request something in a comment. Documents from other sources may find their way to this blog as well.

The Russian World of Tanks website has a history section that has many overviews of tanks, battles, and doctrines. I will periodically translate them and post them here.