Guns of Ukraine war picture thread

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Re: Guns of Ukraine war picture thread

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Boriqua wrote: February 1st, 2023, 9:57 am Hey Suck My Glock
I still dont think we should be sending billions of dollars to Ukraine but the thread with all its pictures and commentary is awesome!
You're welcome.

I know we don't all agree on what involvement the U.S. should or shouldn't have in this. But I do know we all find it interesting. (Well, most of us anyway.) So I've tried to just stick to showing the pics I find and keep my own opinions out of it. I may not always succeed, but I try.


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The Free Chechens fighting for Ukraine against Russia are pretty well funded and get impressive donations, so their gear tends to be good stuff. Here we see a recent delivery of shiny new SIG 516s, Magpul mags and Romeo4T red dot sights.
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Captured by a member of the International Legion, a VKS .50 caliber suppressed straight-pull bullpup sniper weapon. Chambered in the straight-wall 12.7x55 cartridge. (Basically a stretched rimless .500 S&W Magnum shooting 750 grain pills rather than 350.) Even in Ukraine, these are rare as hen's teeth. They were only issued to the FSB (the new KGB), so they typically are used in occupied territory by teams tasked with suppressing partisan guerillas, not the front lines. This one was liberated in Kherson a couple months ago.
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An uncommon Uintah bolt-action AR10. These are uncommon here in the states; even more so in the rest of the world. This is the only one I've seen in the wild, in a bunker in Bakhmut. Uintah sells complete uppers as well as full rifles, so it wouldn't be difficult for someone here in the states to buy a complete upper and just ship it as a donation.
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Another Desert Tech .338Lapua bullpup being sighted in for deployment to the field.
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We see here a Polish volunteer member of the International Brigade, with another Canadian Diamaco C7A1 with 3.4x ELCAN optic.
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And another C7A1
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I have to make a correction here and call out an error I made and have been continuously making;...there is a Czech belt-fed SAW called the PZD556, which I was unaware of until this evening, and which apparently was heavily inspired by the FN Minimi. I have been misidentifying them seen in Ukraine as U.S. donated M249s. Just like how the Polish Grot rifle and the Remington?Bushmaster ACR can be mistaken for each other if you aren't familiar,...I made that mistake with the PZD556.

The PZD556, made by DSS, is very new and has not yet been adopted by any nation as of yet. DSS itself is very new, and consists of former CZ employees who broke off to make this design and market it. No word on why CZ didn't do this themselves in-house. I'm sure there's a very cool story about it all, but there is ZERO press on this company or their product. Normally The Firearms Blog has at least a small bit of news on stuff like this,...but nuthin'. Zip. Nada. They have a website, but that's it. https://dss-cz.com/manufacturing/

I imagine that early on in the war, when the Czechs first sent their initial batch of weaponry to Ukraine, DSS likely stepped up and offered to supply their product at a discount. (The earliest photo of one I have seen is from April.) From a purely business point of view, this would accomplish two things;...1 - test their product in the world's largest current live fire exercise to see how it performs, and 2 - get their product out there to be seen by the world - effective advertising.

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An American member of the volunteer International Brigade is holding an AR10 type rifle. You can tell from the angle at the rear of the lower receiver that is an "Armalite-type" as opposed to the "DPMS-type". The locally made Zbroyar Z10 is of the "Armalite-type", but they were all produced in Flat Dark Earth, none of them plain black like this. Most AR10 designs utilize the "DPMS-type" lower. Only a select few manufacturers have chosen the Armalite style. So best guess is that this is likely another Diamondback product, sold on the civilian market prior to the war. Buuuut,...since this is an American (his flag patch is partially covered by his sling),...it is very unlikely it was purchased by him. Was the original purchaser KIA and his rifle simply handed off to someone else, ending up in the hands of this American volunteer? Who knows. I wonder what tale it could tell.
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Very early in the war, these Bravo Company rifles were donated to Ukraine. At the time, it wasn't clear whether they were simply sent by Bravo Company on their own dime, or what. Previous pictures never allowed a really good look at them, other than clearly enough to observe the Bravo logo on the stocks. But in this photo, we can clearly see an auto sear pin hole that appears to be factory original. That would seem to indicate Bravo Company was given a special emergency permission and expedited permit to export select-fire rifles to Ukraine. Somebody at Foggy Bottom gave them an express ticket.
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Here's a couple of marksmen setting up in a position. Notice the holstered sidearm is a Stechkin in a custom-made kydex holster.
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Look closely and you'll see dude on the right has a SEALs trident on his fannypack. Is he actually American? Is he actually a former SEAL? No way to know. But their gear suggest they are well connected. Not only do those ELCAN Spectre optics cost more than the rifles, the IR laser modules are also not cheap. While donor nations have certainly dropped some expensive toys on the boys, these are not among them. Somehow someone secured those outside regular channels.
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Same SEAL, same fannypack, but now dressed very much in a way that seems to suggest he's actually for real. Perhaps more shortly after arrival in country? Just what he had stuffed in his luggage, plus his recently acquired Malyuk and magazines.
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Same SEAL, but many months later (photo taken a few weeks ago). If you look closely, despite the face blocking, it is evident he has grown his beard out. Now outfitted with one of those select-fire Bravo Co. rifles and 3rd Gen Glock.
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This American volunteer has been issued a GROT with a 6x power ACOG and a FORT-12 9mmMak tucked in his plate carrier.
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Here's the personal armament of American vet known online as Nucking_Futs_Yuri, who after 10 years in the U.S. Army moved to Ukraine in 2012. (He posts a lot of pictures and video from the front and is a good source for images coming out of there to the West.) He writes - My RL Tarkov loadout. M14 on sage EBR stock as a battle rifle. Not a sniper or a DMR, a straight battle rifle. Elcan SpecterDR, Atlas bipod, which I can swap with my grippod on an as needed basis. And the Stechkin with wooden holster/stock assembly.
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Ukrainian snowball
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Captured from the Russians back in late October in Kherson, this is the ultra-rare Baryshev B-40 ARGB, which is a semi-auto delayed blowback grenade launcher that fires the same VOG-17 30mm grenades as the belt-fed AGS-30. Baryshev, though not as well known or as successful as Kalashnikov, was one of Russia's other leading weapon designers since 1962. This weapon has been seen in development over the years, but it was always a top-fed magazine arrangement, similar to the Bren LMG. This is the first one ever seen using an under-side magazine arrangement. Unknown how many of these may have been produced. This was ultimately sent back to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's R&D to be reverse engineered and seen if it can be reproduced economically.
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Raytheon AN/PAS-13 Thermal Weapon Sights. These were first fielded by the U.S. circa 1998. But by 2010, they were outdated and replaced by newer TWS units. These were mothballed and kept in reserve. Now they are lighting up Russians. Volunteer on the right is Israeli. (His patch is obscured by the buffer tube.)
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The Dnieper River is the obstacle the Ukrainians need to cross in order to press the offensive against the Russians. Eventually, they will make an attempt at crossing it and securing a beachhead from which to anchor their invasion of the Russian-held side. So there is an ongoing cat & mouse game where Ukrainian riverine raiders are constantly probing, attacking and investigating the Russian-held shores, looking for weaknesses and keeping the Russians wondering where and when the big push will actually occur. Here we see a hot extraction from one such mission, with a Ukie Marine using a minigun to suppress the enemy bank they have just vacated.
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For a moment, I thought Karl Kasarda from In Range was downrange in Ukraine. But it is apparently just a brother from another mother.
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Dogs of war are actually pretty friendly as long as there's plenty of dead Russians for them to nibble on.
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Here's some ammo porn for you. 7.62x51NATO ammo donated to Ukraine by Estonia, 2011 production dates. Each crate is 1000 rounds. Each pallet has 36 crates. Each row of pallets is 2 deep x 3 high. So extrapolating from that, this photo shows 2.16 million rounds.
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And here you can see why that actually won't last very long.
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3 Americans in Ukraine on Super Bowl Sunday, getting ready to send it long.
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Another example of how Ukrainians are adapting western weapon enhancement trends to the AK system. Users are hip to set up their rifles with optic systems like this EOTech and magnifier. To facilitate that, this guy has installed a FAB Defense railed dust cover, adjustable folding stock and railed handguard on which he has placed an IR laser to take advantage of the night vision goggles.
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Another national police MP5 pressed into wartime service.
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Carl Gustav says hello
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Another suppressed Savage 110 with thermal imaging
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Another Beretta ARX200 .308 rifle
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Another Savage precision rifle
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SIG 516 Patrol Rifle, with the sear pin clearly visible, indicating this one is part of the SBU contract, outfitted with a Trijicon Credo 1-6x and a Trijicon RMR.
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More SIG 516s with various optics. Note the Glock on the backpack.
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Ok,...here's a new one. A Norinco QBZ bullpup. Unable to tell from this photo if it is the genuine 6.8 caliber or the export 5.56 version. Although they are unavailable here in the states, China did export a 5.56 semi-auto civilian version to other markets around the world. Canada, for instance, is one place you see these. Therefor, my guess is this is a civilian-purchased 5.56 semi-auto that has been pressed into service.
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Well, yes, as it turns out, the Norinco QBZ-97 .223 export model rifle is indeed on sale today in Ukraine for 38,000 Hryvnia, which is $1038. I doubt anyone would lay out good money right now when stuff can be just picked up off the ground near the front for free. But whatever. Perhaps this guy bought his a couple years ago. Who knows?

https://reibert.info/lots-amp/norinco-t ... em.901075/

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Well this picture has more mystery than you would expect. The AR on the left is a semi-auto Diamondback, the pistol is a Fort 17 in 9mmMak, but the AR10 is the mystery. It is obviously an Armalite-type lower with the "slant-back" where the rear of the upper and lower mate. These are less common here in the U.S. where DPMS-style AR10 lowers rule the market. But the locally make Zbroyar Z-10 is of this type, so at first I thought it was one of those. But the lines and features are wrong. So I thought it might also be a Diamondback product, since they too have made the slant-back receivers. But in comparing the unique mag button protective ridges, and how the mag button has an elevated shelf, it did not match Diamondback's lowers. So I started comparing to every make of slant-back AR10 receiver anybody has ever made. I checked against Armalite, Eagle Arms, Mega, Matrix, LMT, LWRC, Noveske, Knight's, Ruger, and even looked at Tactical Machining's 80% lowers. Each are just ever so slightly different, but none of them match this. And with no apparent markings (at least on the side facing the camera), this seems to be a true ghost gun. Russia began making AR15 and AR10 sport rifles a few years ago, and I suppose this could be one of those. It's a mystery!

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A Ruger Precision Rifle with a Night Force variable.
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And here's some drone footage observing a lone soldier in a trench facing an IFV by himself. The vehicle keeps blasting away at him with its cannon and RPGs, and the dude just keeps calmly lobbing 30mm grenades at him. Nobody fights like those that are fighting for their home.


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So remember when KelTec donated a bunch of guns to Ukraine,...it seems they recently ponied up a batch of KSGs to send for urban house-to-house work.
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