The Bundeswehr, Germany’s armed forces, aims to equip all soldiers with high-performing “Multitarn” camouflage uniforms by ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** The East German Makarov, also ...

The core differences between the East German “National People’s Army” (NVA) and the Nazi German Wehrmacht that came before it were doctrinal in nature. Despite having a handful of outward similarities ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The various Warsaw Pact countries produced similar equipment without violating trademark. Throughout the Cold War it was typically said that the army of the Deutsche ...

BERLIN (CNN) -- As Germany celebrates the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, some Germans have started to look back fondly to the days of the former communist-ruled East Germany. The ...

FOR a long time it was fashionable to write of the impending catastrophe in East Germany, of chronic industrial stagnation, incipient economic collapse, even of famine. But, in fact, East German ...

This article, "The East German Makarov: A Cold War Classic," appeared originally in the August 2015 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and ...