Guns of Ukraine war picture thread

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Oh, golly. Soooooo glad FN included a bayonet with those donated F2000s. Because, like, those Russian bayonet charges are a muthafukah.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1536077129397506056

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxfCz-vkcvs

 

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In Ukraine, there is very little if any helicopter evac of casualties. So instead, volunteer medics - most of whom were emergency room nurses and doctors before the war - are on standby in SUVs to respond to nearby casualties. Thusly, they are driving straight into where battle is occurring,...but unlike in a helo,...they get zero opportunity see the scene before arriving or ability to choose any direction to escape if fired upon. These medics, most of whom are women, sometimes get intercepted by the enemy on their way in and have to shoot their way out or through. Sometimes they arrive at the casualty location only to get pinned down and trapped there with the unit. So all medics, like Yaryna here, come armed like their patients. Usually in pairs. Yaryna's assistant medic/nurse, Oleksandra, is holding the camera. Their AKs are on the hood of the Mitsubishi.

 

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https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1536529706387906560

 

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https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1536681437239431168

A modified direct-fire RPG with 82mm mortar attached, hiding behind a,...hey,...this bush smells kinda,...funky.

Not sure who these guys are. No insignia seen or description in the photo. But the 2 guys in the middle carry the first HK416s I've seen in country, which I consider significant.

What rifle you're carrying in Ukraine often says a lot about who you are. If you have a NATO weapon, you are likely a foreign volunteer. If you have 5.45 AK, you're likely an Army regular or reservist. If you have a 7.62 AK, you're likely a citizen who's been handed a war reserve stock rifle at the last minute when the invasion happened, or it's your own private weapon you had before the invasion. Either way,...having a 7.62 Kalashnikov USUALLY means you're nobody special. Except, these two guys have quality individual coms,...something as rare as hen's teeth in Ukraine. They kinda look like special boys trying hard to just look like nobody special. Hmmmmm.

So have the Stinger missiles we sent to Ukraine had an effect? Well, the Russian pilots are flying REALLY low, trying to not get blasted out of the sky. How low? Well, when you're knocking out your own rocket pods by impacting the tops of spruce trees, I'd say that's pretty fuggin' low.

 

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You guys who were buying cheap Chinese AKs in the 90s will recognize this. Its a Chinese Type 56-1, blued, with flat-back magazines. This one is part of a cache seized by the U.S. Navy on the high seas en route to Yemen and the Houthis, courtesy of Iran. It and the others on board were delivered to the CIA, who stockpiles such party favors for distribution to deserving friends when the need arises. And thus,....

Do modern rifles REALLY need to pass mud testing. I mean, just stay out of the mud, right? Unless you're living in mud, day in, day out.
https://twitter.com/CanadianUkrain1/status/1536930263648829446

 

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This guy is a little too excited about the Beretta-made MG42/59

 

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Another FN F2000, but this one is different. All others seen so far have been black. This one is dull sage green, injection molded in that color from the factory.

 

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Footage of a former U.S. Marine, Issac, fighting with fellow volunteers in Severodonetsk, armed with their CZ Bren2s. Issac has a red dot on his.
https://twitter.com/Marine_Ukraine/status/1537604221108903940

Look after your feet, soldier. After all, with the stench of rotting Russians everywhere, stinky feet are no big deal. Just look after your rifle first! Here we see this unit has both an AK74, a UAR-15 and a UAR-10

 

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Here we see members of the Italian Carabinieri (federal police) bodyguard detachment for Italian Premier Mario Draghi, as he and the French and German leaders all visit Ukraine President Zelenskyy in Kyiv yesterday. Notice not only the HK416s they carry, but at least one of them came packing a breacher kit.

Russian Spetsnatz wearing a captured US PVS-14 NVG. And his PKM is suppressed as well as outfitted with a folding stock. I don't blame him,...Russian NVGs are crap.

Another Beretta-made MG42/59, in the hands of a Ukrainian Marine, dismounting from a British "Mastiff" MRAP.

 

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Once upon a time, armies spent a lot of time singing. It was a way to build a sense of team and brotherhood, as well as keep the patriotism strong and reduce the boredom. One of the things modern warfare is missing from times gone by. But here, we have a few lovely Ukrainian lasses harking back to those times, as they load their mags to send the "orcs" to Hell.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1537894024626905094

Another FNC denying Russians a good time.

Chechen love nest. Notice the folding stock RPK and the suppressed 9x39 VSSM Vintorez on the floor.

 

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https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1538570430549831682/photo/1

Here are some more mobile medics, former med students pressed into service. I love their unit patch of Snoopy flying a syringe. And of course, these three all have 5.45 AK74 mags stuffed in their plate carriers for their AKSU-74s

Anja Osmon, from Fort Worth, 7 years U.S. Army medic, veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, crossed into Ukraine on her own from Poland March 20th. They gave her a Polish AK47 and assigned her to an English-speaking volunteer unit.

 

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https://twitter.com/CanadianUkrain1/status/1538625069836120069

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1538877207803744261

Group picture of another English-speaking unit of the Ukrainian "International Legion", consisting primarily of Yanks and Brits, outfitted with suppressed CZ Bren2s, M249s and an M240B and an Accuracy International Artic Warfare sniper weapon. Even the RPG7 is an American-made model by Airtronic.

I play for you the song of my people!

Spetznatz troopie and his heavily modified AK74/AK12? Zenitco bolt handle and folding stock, Aimpoint T2, some sort of digital thermal sight, quad-stack magazine by PUFGUN, free-float rail, railed gas tube and suppressor.

 

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https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1538938308453097475/photo/1

FN SCAR-L

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1539017492940587010

 

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When your buddy in the drone unit likes to pester you with fly-bys. You'd flip him 2 birds if you weren't holding your Fort 301 (.308 Galil copy) in your other hand.

55 years old Vasyl Shtefko from Zakarpattia is fighting without both legs. When he signed up as a military volunteer, he said nothing about this. He is unstoppable, like his Kalashnikov.

 

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Here's a new recruit with an FN 2000 and a Z15. How do I know he's a new recruit? Just look at those new boots. They're new right out of the box. He didn't even walk across any dirt yet.

SMOKIN'!!
https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1539699828137017346

 

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https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1539921241695571968

A couple of Russian Spetznatz troops, one of which has a genuine "Vityaz" 9mm AK.

 

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Panzerfaust 3 at the moment of firing.

Russian with his VS VAL 9x39

Another privately owned Remington Bushmaster ACR. This is the first one I've seen in plain black. The other 2 were desert tan.

2 more Brens

A couple of Russian Spetznatz dudes. One has a captured Ukrainian AR10, while the other has his suppressed 9x39 VS VAL, and a Krinkov over by the tree.

 

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https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1540754093592891392

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1540786328652193793/photo/1

A recent photo of a rifle/thermal scope belonging to a foreign combatant of Ukrainian Forces.
The fighter seems to be using a 7.62x51mm UKROP UAR-10 sniper rifle with an Archer TSA-7 thermal scope and a camo-wrapped factory suppressor.

 

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https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1541125395906527233/photo/1

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1541250899535863811

Ukrainian fighters near Mykolaiv. Unknown what unit they are, but indications are they are recently recruited (since the invasion) militia or reservists, judging from their armament. They all have 7.62 or 5.45 AKs,...EXCEPT for the guy 2nd from left,...who has the first FN/FAL I have seen in the field. Is it one that has been donated by some nation or by FN? Or perhaps it is privately owned weapon he brought with him to war? (Actually, the guy kneeling in front looks rather American, with his Yankees ball cap and OD green shemagh.)

https://twitter.com/Blue_Sauron/status/1541404511771803649