The Bizon Kalashnikov Concern’s Submachine Gun
Completed Bizon build. The collapse of the Soviet Union plunged the new Russian state into chaos, plagued by organized crime ...
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Keeping Its Place in Russian Battle Space The AS Val 9×39 Special Purpose Assault Rifle
The VSS Vintorez and AS Val display at the Tula State Museum of Weapons. In the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union ...
Russia’s Threadcutter, the VSS Vintorez A Call to Defeat Body Armor [OR–Russia’s Threadcutter Answers the Kremlin’s Call to Defeat Body Armor]
Modern armed conflicts are of a fundamental different character than cataclysmic wars of the last century. Fortunately, full-scale military operations ...
A Journey Through Russian Special Forces’ History and Future Grozny’s Russian University of Spetsnaz
Diagram and legend of the training facility. Tucked away in the opening plains where the Caucasus Mountains finally meet the ...
The 9x39mm SR-3 Vikhr: Russian Compact Assault Rifle Easily Handles Subsonic Ammunition
In the mid-1980s, the Soviet Ministry of Defense noted an increased need for body-armor-defeating weaponry paired with a diminished sound ...
Suppressor History, Testing and Designs Insights from an Advanced Suppressor Seminar
There has been a resounding boom in popularity of suppressors in recent years. They have become less the stuff of ...
The PKP of the Caucasus: Providing Russian Soldiers Increased Sustained Fire
By Lynndon Schooler The beginning For a brief 200-year period, the Pecheneg Khanate sprawled from Southern Trans-Carpathia across the Dnieper ...
The Rise of the Vityaz
ABOVE: On the range with the Vityaz-SN and a Zenitco suppressor. A High Performance SMG Despite Growing Pains In 1993, ...
PP-2000KBP’s: Answer for Russian Special Forces’ Fight Against Terrorism
By Lynndon Schooler With the Bolshevik victory in 1922 bringing the cold and bloody Russian Civil War to a close, ...
AK-12—Meeting the Russian Warfighter’s Needs
Pathway to the Kalashnikov’s Future Development By Lynndon Schooler Vladimir Zlobin, the former director of the AK-12 project, can be ...
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