Links in alphabetical order

  users.belgacom.net/jm.armes/PDW-menu.htm - about PDW’s in french

 kalashnikov.guns.ru - good page about all Kalashnikov stuff

 world.guns.ru - Maxim Popenker’s excellent page on small arms

 www.armada.ch - Armada International journal - one free article per issue, and lots of overview articles for free

 www.AR15.com - quite official home of the AR15 system fans

 www.crimsontrace.com - official homepage for those cool hand grip-internal lasers

 www.DefenseReview.com - You’ll often see something about small arms here,  including videos of PDWs in action.

 www.defensetech.org - pleasantly critical news portal about (mostly U.S.) military equipment innovation

www.eotech-inc.com - official homepage of the EUTech holographic weapon sights

 www.FNHerstal.com - official FN Herstal homepage

 www.G2mil.com - monthly journal, early on focused on equipment innovation, now focused on military-related politics, up to Grand Strategy level

 www.globalsecurity.org - great source for military information. Look what they’ve got at >Military > Systems !

 www.gunmanuals.ch - lots of interesting gun manuals for free !

 www.Heckler-Koch.de - the official homepage of Heckler & Koch

 www.HKpro.com - the best inofficial page about Heckler & Koch (and quite official home of the HK fans). Better than the official HK page IMHO.

www.shipunov.com - the official homepage of KBP. The link is directly to the small arms section

 www.mtuma.ch - Martin Tuma Engineering’s homepage

 www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/title1.html - Phil West’s “Scrapboard”; out-of-the-box thinking as principle

 www.securityarms.com - Photos and often even text about many small arms.

 www.strategie-und-technik.de - Strategie und Technik, a almost official monthly German military journal; AFAIK it’s their policy to never feature  content that’s critical about official German defense policy or the Bundeswehr. But their articles are nevertheless often interesting.

 www.tank-net.org - has “AFV” and “General Military” forums with high standards and many very knowledgeable participants

 www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/ - Anthony. G. William’s page; he’s definately an arms expert

 http://modernwarstudies.net/ - international forum on military stuff in general

PDW online articles

www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632, soldiertech_pdw,,00.html “SMALL PACKAGES, BIG BANG: Personal Defence Weapons”

www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632, soldiertech_hk,,00.html “SMALL PACKAGES, BIG BANG: Personal Defence Weapons (Part 2)”

www.knox.army.mil/center/ocoa/armormag/nd01/6pdw01.pdf “Do Armor Crewmen Need A More Effective Personal Defence Weapon?”

www.knox.army.mil/center/ocoa/armormag/mj02/3PDWs02.pdf “A New Personal Defence Weapon?”

www.special-operations-technology.com/print_article.cfm?docid=586 “Lethal Caliber”

www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/PDWs.htm “Where Next For PDW’s?”

findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IAV/is_3_95/ai_n16808789 “Small arms strategy: training and modernization”

www.soldat-und-technik.de/8-2003/heer.htm “Klein, aber große Wirkung” (in German)

The wide-spread use of carbines in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars made it look as if PDW’s were not necessary, but finally in 2007 the PDW debate was refreshed by an US Army announcement that it plans again to introduce a PDW.

brickmuppet.blogspot.com/2007/03/army-issues-pdw-requirement.html

www.defensetech.org/archives/003355.html#comments

Tho articles of Phil West with his thoughts on PDW and interview reports about ballistic tests of the P90:

www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/pdw.html

www.angelfire.com/art/enchanter/cmp.htm

Books

Maxim Popenker and Anthony G. Williams joined to write this book about Assault rifles - it gives a fine overview about the development of assault rifles, has some info on compact carbines and is an unusually good source on the Russian assault rifle history.

 about the AR-15 system

“Black Rifle II: The M16 into the 21st Century” by Christopher R. Bartocci (ISBN: 0889353484)

  excellent ballistics book!

 “Geschosse” by Beat P. Kneubuehl (ISBN: 3-7276-7145-9) - (in German)

Jane’s Infantry weapons annual reference books - they’re too expensive if new, but I was lucky on ebay.

www.personaldefenceweapons.com

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