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Subscribe to Armax: The Journal of Contemporary Arms today.


Armax is the peak international publication promoting the scholarship of contemporary arms.

By subscribing to Armax you directly support academically rigorous research examining contemporary arms, promote the field of arms and munitions scholarship, and provide opportunities for early-career researchers.

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Armax is committed to

Supporting & developing the study of contemporary arms.

The journal aims to:

  • Efficiently and promptly publish academically rigorous scholarship pertaining to contemporary arms;

  • Serve as a touchstone for the contemporary arms research community, actively developing and promoting the field;

  • Demonstrate the value of an academic approach to arms studies whilst engaging the broader technical, curatorial, and collector communities; and

  • Provide opportunities for early-career researchers to make meaningful contributions to the literature.

Scholarship

Armax is the peak international publication promoting the scholarship of contemporary arms. As a core discipline within the field of arms and armour studies, the study of contemporary arms engages with a broad range of academic areas including history (particularly contemporary, military, science, and technology history), war and conflict studies; ballistics; design and technology studies; museum studies; and forensic science.

Armax is a multidisciplinary journal publishing research from scholars around the world. In addition to full-length research articles and shorter research notes, Armax publishes book reviews, conference reports, obituaries, and other material relevant to the contemporary arms studies community. Armax is published by Helios House Press on behalf of the Cody Firearms Museum, with two issues annually. All research submissions are double-blind peer reviewed.

Interested authors should review the information on this website in the first instance.

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