Guns of Ukraine war picture thread

[NBC_LT]

Right on the money Suck My Glock! One of my biggest regrets was not keeping the Starlight night camo from Desert Storm and Desert Falcon - had it issued twice and gave it back...

Seriously - this thread is really interesting to see how land warfare and individual weaponry is evolving - can't believe I'll have my 30 year Operation Restore Hope & Desert Falcon anniversaries this year!

 

[Suck My Glock]

https://twitter.com/Marine_Ukraine/status/1650984031758974981

Taking a tip from CMH awardee John Basilone and the 1919A6 Browning he inspired, Ukraine is taking a bunch of their numerous M1910 7.62x54R Maxims and removing the water jackets and converting them to air-cooled lighter versions to crudely approximate a GPMG.
https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1651325701163823104

Not only is there a mix of Russian and NATO rifles in Ukraine, but a similar mix of hand grenades as well. Here we see (from left to right) a German DM-51 with removable fragmentation sleeve, a Dutch NR20C1, a U.S. M67, a Russian RGO, a Russian RGD-5, and an old Russian F1. And these are just a sample of the most common ones. All sorts of stuff has been donated.

Driving a couple of Barrett MRADs to the front, along with their operators.

You bring down a Mig and everybody wants to get their picture taken.

 

[Suck My Glock]

A very uncommon Uintah bolt-action AR15 being employed in Ukraine. I have seen the .308 variant before. But this is the first time seeing the 5.56 model being used. In fact, it is the first 5.56 precision bolt-action being used at all that I have seen, since .308 would seem to be the minimum light caliber for use on the open plains. Likely a private purchase before the war or a donation from an American supporter.

Another DiamondBack semi-auto AR15 privately purchased that has been pressed into service. (Yes, I had to blow up the photo very large to be able to read the logo on the lower, but it is there.)

This happy lad from the 92nd Mechanized Brigade is pleased to have himself an HK416 with original mags. I have only seen one other HK416 in country, and it seemed it might have been a foreign advisor holding it, maybe,...it was unclear. But this fellow is definitely a local. Germany has not donated them. But plenty of other countries could have. Norway and France now issue the HK416, among others. Poland bought some before developing their GROT, and might have disposed of theirs with Ukraine. Portugal, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Estonia are all also supporters of Ukraine who have sent various weapons and ammo who also have HK416s in inventory. Who knows where this one came from? But in this mud season, it will likely get torture tested very soon.

https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1652398804631429121

 

[Suck My Glock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmnAfFSoJ8c

Yes, this abomination is real. A star light viewer not meant to be coupled with an optic, yet coupled with an optic anyway. As I have said before; Ukrainians are blood brothers to American rednecks.

A Ukrainian sniper employing an Italian Victrix Scorpio V .338Lapua rifle.

A Sako TRG22 outfitted with a TRG folding stock.

I have to make a correction. I have at least twice reported and identified some bolt-action AR rifles in theater as being made by Uintah Precision of Utah. I did so believing that no one else in the world made such a product. I have in fact myself been lusting to get my hands on a Uintah .308 upper since before the whole Ukraine war, and eventually will. But I just discovered that Zbroyar, the Ukrainian company that makes the Z-10 rifle copied after the AR-10, got their start back 2007 by first making the Z008, which is a bolt-action AR rifle. And in fact, they have been popular with Ukrainian sport riflemen ever since. But because they were all hand-fitted and made to order, they never became known much outside of Ukraine, and it seems Uintah Precision simply ripped off the idea for the American market here. Thus, it seems far more likely that these bolt-action AR rifles seen in country are not American made Uintah rifles, but in fact domestically produced Zbroyar products.

 

[Suck My Glock]

A pair of Polish WKW "Wilk" .50BMG bullpup bolt-action rifles.

https://www.tiktok.com/@insurgentwave2.0/video/7229074339055029550

This Ukrainian carries a rare CZ Scorpion Evo 3 A1 submachine gun, chambered in 9x19mm. It's likely a part of a recent military supply by the Czech Republic.

 

[Suck My Glock]

A set of slavs slumbering on Sunday, sitting securely in their secret sanctuary, satisfied they are safe from stalking snipers sending supersonic slugs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcNNQSMcIlQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pohjoaXiO_k

PKM with thermal vision near Vuhledar.

 

[xerts1191]

A clone project perhaps

 

[Suck My Glock]

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A clone project perhaps

Uh,...try again.

 

[xerts1191]

I give up, it was the monstrosity you posted with the scope and other doo dads mounted on it, you know somebody out there will want to clone it.

That thing up above ^^^^

 

[Suck My Glock]

This Ukrainian has a Walther P22 in his chest rig. Does he have a little suppressor for it stowed elsewhere?

https://twitter.com/LeonoraGou8319/status/1656526588165406722

Somebody needs to learn some trigger discipline and about thermal diffusion. But both the PKM and the M240 are both so reliable even when abused like this,...some dudes just hose the foes until the ammo is gone without regard for trying to preserve the barrel. And damn it man,...SOMEBODY has to shag all that ammo you're throwing downrange.
https://twitter.com/ManojKu40226010/status/1651170552546197506

More Uzis arriving, being issued to more vehicle crewmen. Previous batches were identified as former Dutch weapons, while the 2 pictured here are reportedly German MP2A1s.

A Ukrainian FORT301 copy of the .308 Galil, known as the "Galatz".

 

[Ballistic Therapy]

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[Suck My Glock]

More Bravo Co. rifles. Notice that the machinegunner on the right has replaced the PKM's regular stock with a Zenitco folding stock. Or, perhaps more likely, it was captured from VDV (Russian airborne) forces, who have issued PKMs and PKPs with the Zenetico stock. And they also have the well-regarded Spanish "Matador" anti-tank weapon.

Another Daniel Defense rifle in Ukraine, but this one has a chocolate brown colored finish, rather than FDE, Coyote Tan or black. On DD's website, they call this color option Mil-Spec+.

Things you find after the spring thaw in Ukraine,....

A Russian sniper with his newly issued Lobaev LAR-10; a Russian-made AR-10 knock-off meant to counter the Ukrainian Zbroyar Z-10 knock-off of the AR-10.

 

[Mike-4]

OP - thanks again for all these posts! Love the pics and impressed with your knowledge on all the various weapons.

 

[Suck My Glock]

A Ukrainian sniper scanning the target area with his Z-10 rifle.

FN donated quite a few SCAR-Ls in 5.56 to Ukraine, and we have seen many of them. But they also provided a lesser number of SCAR-Hs in .308, which have not been so commonly seen. Here we see a Ukrainian soldier near Orikhiv with his.

Blowing your invaders to bits is fun and all, but sometimes you want to suck all the oxygen out of their hidey hole and set them on fire. With a lack of White Phosphorous grenades like the West has, Ukraine has improvised a napalm grenade. I'm curious how well this works. The detonator of a regular grenade is used as the bursting charge to rupture the used water bottle and throw the flaming gel everywhere. Hasta lasagna, don't get any on ya.

2 Polish GROT rifles on each side. But the American volunteer in the center has a Desert Tech MDRX 5.56 bullpup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec96Dhgw04Y

 

[Suck My Glock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApFT-pLcAXQ

Another Savage 10BA Stealth with thermal optic.

A mounted recon scout on his CFMoto quad ATV with his HK416.

Some "unique" weapon art.

Mmmmmmm,...Barretts.

These lads are a couple of newly outfitted Ukrainians. The "Flectarn" camo uniform BDUs recently donated by Germany are a dead giveaway. And the FN SCAR-H rifles are also recently supplied. SCAR-Ls have been seen a lot, but very few SCAR-H examples, until recent weeks.

 

[Suck My Glock]

A battle-scarred SCAR-L

A suppressed Belgian FAL

An M110 SASS with what appears to be a Pulsar Thermion 2 LRF.

A medic with the Georgian volunteer group of the International Battalion, with 2 recently liberated AK-12s.

 

[Suck My Glock]

Polish GROT with an ACOG somewhere in Ukraine.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1667606170557640704/photo/1



Sorry that there just hasn't been much to contribute to this thread lately. In preparation for the offensive that launched 2 days ago, Ukraine tightened up on OPSEC a lot, and there just hasn't been as much getting posted by their side for a few weeks. Now that the push has busted open, and as both sides try to capitalize on propaganda opportunities whenever and wherever possible, I expect images of individual weapons in the field will soon resume. However, for OPSEC reasons, there is likely to be a delay of days or weeks so that the opposing side can't use those images for useful intel. But I continue monitoring the images coming from the war and will happily post new relevant stuff as it appears.

 

[blasternaz]

Thanks for all the pics and intel. Stay safe!!

 

[blasternaz]

Interesting....

"U.S. officials had also previously expressed concerns that aggressive security assistance from the United States to Ukraine “might also have an impact on 105 mm ammunition availability for MPF systems,” as a recent Congressional Research Service report put it.

The Pentagon has already forked over at least 450,000 105 mm rounds to the Ukrainian military since the start of Russia’s invasion, per the U.S. State Department.

But ramped-up production and supply chain work has relieved much of that concern, officials said.

“Ammo to Ukraine has not been a problem,” Dean said."

 

[xerts1191]

Gun porn scale ++++++