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U.S. ordnance is now arriving at the front.
https://twitter.com/GalileoArms/status/1523418874053808128
https://twitter.com/GalileoArms/status/1523418874053808128
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It seems the Italians donated a bunch of Beretta-built licensed copies of the MG42/59s,...NOT MG3s as I and many others have been misidentifying. Ian McCollum over on Forgotten Weapons did a video on these recently. They were the commercial version of the converted MG42 in 7.62NATO, but with a rate-reducing heavy bolt and buffer that are NOT compatible with either the original MG42 or later MG3. While the modern current issue MG3 does run slower (950rpm) than the the original MG42 (1200rpm), the MG42/59 runs even slower, at about 800-900rpm. This one is from 1974 and if you look closely you can see the P in a circle, which is the Beretta proof mark.
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We've seen a lot of these full-length lower handguards/heat shields on customized Ukrainian AKs, both 5.45 and 7.62 variants. British and American advisors in the recent years that have visited Ukraine's special forces school seem to have imparted their love of painting and customizing their rifles, which the "Ukies" have been emulating. The Ukrainians never had any of these side-folding stock AK101-style rifles in inventory, so this is undoubtedly a captured Russian rifle that has been liberated and updated for use back against the "Orcs".
As the Ukrainians need all the help and materiel they can get, a lot of non-standard gear for the donated NATO weaponry is also showing up. For instance, this group of Belorussian volunteers, who have been issued FN SCAR-Ls, somehow acquired MFT (Mission First Tactical) magazines and Vector Optics red dots. Whether the volunteers ordered and paid for these themselves or whether they were donated and just showed up is unclear. The Vector line is a budget type of red dot, considered by those in the know as mostly for us recreational shooters and not a rugged soldier-proof item. So it would make sense if the Belorussians paid for something like that out of pocket. But,...for makers of weapon stuff,...nothing gets free advertising like seeing your product used on camera against the evil enemy,...so it is entirely possible commercial gun accessory makers could be sending free stuff over there just hoping someone like me might post pictures of it everywhere. Who knows?
As the Ukrainians need all the help and materiel they can get, a lot of non-standard gear for the donated NATO weaponry is also showing up. For instance, this group of Belorussian volunteers, who have been issued FN SCAR-Ls, somehow acquired MFT (Mission First Tactical) magazines and Vector Optics red dots. Whether the volunteers ordered and paid for these themselves or whether they were donated and just showed up is unclear. The Vector line is a budget type of red dot, considered by those in the know as mostly for us recreational shooters and not a rugged soldier-proof item. So it would make sense if the Belorussians paid for something like that out of pocket. But,...for makers of weapon stuff,...nothing gets free advertising like seeing your product used on camera against the evil enemy,...so it is entirely possible commercial gun accessory makers could be sending free stuff over there just hoping someone like me might post pictures of it everywhere. Who knows?
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AS VAL in 9x39 and an AK12. Their previous owners were "administratively retired".
How robust are steel AK mags? Well, this fully loaded one helped stop a bullet. It slowed it down enough that the soft body armor underneath was able to do the rest.
Yep,...we Americans (and Brits) taught the Ukies that painting guns is fun. We created a monster.
How robust are steel AK mags? Well, this fully loaded one helped stop a bullet. It slowed it down enough that the soft body armor underneath was able to do the rest.
Yep,...we Americans (and Brits) taught the Ukies that painting guns is fun. We created a monster.
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This image is from about 6 weeks ago, before the EOTech sights began to arrive, and the PKM gunners were sticking any optic they could scrounge up on their PKMs.
A Dutch volunteer with an American M240L, oddly, without an optic.
Another DP,...this one belonging to a dude paired with an NLAW operator. This one is actually an RP46, which usually is paired with the belt-feed conversion. However, it still works with pan magazines. The pistol grip and buffer extension on the rear of the receiver gives it away. The Chinese made exactly the same weapon, but never gave it a belt-feed capability, which is called the DPM. But it's rather unlikely what this is. The RP46 served for 15 years before being replaced by the PK in 1962, which likely explains why this one looks so well used, while many recently seen DP28s look like they were packed away in cosmoline for decades and never issued, because they probably were.
A Dutch volunteer with an American M240L, oddly, without an optic.
Another DP,...this one belonging to a dude paired with an NLAW operator. This one is actually an RP46, which usually is paired with the belt-feed conversion. However, it still works with pan magazines. The pistol grip and buffer extension on the rear of the receiver gives it away. The Chinese made exactly the same weapon, but never gave it a belt-feed capability, which is called the DPM. But it's rather unlikely what this is. The RP46 served for 15 years before being replaced by the PK in 1962, which likely explains why this one looks so well used, while many recently seen DP28s look like they were packed away in cosmoline for decades and never issued, because they probably were.
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Here is an American volunteer vet of Mongol ethnicity. Notice his FN/FNC and just barely in the frame at right, notice the muzzle of an M-14.
More foreign volunteers with CZ Bren2s. The guy who is not obscured is "Isaac", a former U.S. Marine.
More foreign volunteers with CZ Bren2s. The guy who is not obscured is "Isaac", a former U.S. Marine.
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Poland donates some of their latest new GROT rifles to Ukraine. Very similar to the Remington ACR.
https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1524527692879736832
MP5SD in Mariupol
https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1524527692879736832
MP5SD in Mariupol
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Another donated Czech VZ58 with another foreign volunteer,...and a puppy. Who can resist puppies?
Something all soldiers in every army share;...boredom during down time, and clowning for the camera. "That's right, we bad!"
Sniper training with AR10 type rifles.
https://twitter.com/GalileoArms/status/1524685013568172034
Something all soldiers in every army share;...boredom during down time, and clowning for the camera. "That's right, we bad!"
Sniper training with AR10 type rifles.
https://twitter.com/GalileoArms/status/1524685013568172034
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Man, I love these pics. Thanks again OP!
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Here's a couple Russian Spetznatz troopers. Notice the suppressor and EOTech-type sight. (Can't tell if it is an actual EOTech or a Russian copy.) Notice also they using a CAN-AM atv. Was this stolen in Ukraine and put to use, or did Canada ever sell them to Russia? Unclear.
More Belorussian volunteers with FN SCARs and AKs.
Another old Maxim at checkpoint.
More Belorussian volunteers with FN SCARs and AKs.
Another old Maxim at checkpoint.
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Another Russian Spetznatz trooper, but this one has an AKSU-74 (Krinkov) with a suppressor and a quad-stack magazine.
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Another Ukrainian with a U.S. supplied M4.
Europe's soccer hooligans have been attracted to Ukraine to fight. Here you see some of them getting ready to rock some AKs.
https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1525039372726312960
Khrystyna is a champion of Youth Olympic Games & winner of Biathlon World Championships: her plans to take part in competition in
were ruined by war. "I change my biathlon rifle to a machine gun but no matter what weapon I have,I stand to the end! We’ll win!”
Europe's soccer hooligans have been attracted to Ukraine to fight. Here you see some of them getting ready to rock some AKs.
https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1525039372726312960
Khrystyna is a champion of Youth Olympic Games & winner of Biathlon World Championships: her plans to take part in competition in
were ruined by war. "I change my biathlon rifle to a machine gun but no matter what weapon I have,I stand to the end! We’ll win!”
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Look at these poor dumb bastards all armed with Mosin-Nagants. Not an AK in sight! These are reservists from Donbas. Might as well give them a prison shank and tell them to take that hill.
https://twitter.com/DragonLadyU2/status/1525066204980854785
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1525102818557935616
https://twitter.com/DragonLadyU2/status/1525066204980854785
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1525102818557935616
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A U.S.-supplied Tucson-made Vltor M32
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SIG Virtus and a nifty PKM fielded by 2 FOG (Forward Observation Group) members.
Another Polish RGP-40 6-shot 40mm grenade chucker. These and other western arms are showing up all over now.
Another Polish RGP-40 6-shot 40mm grenade chucker. These and other western arms are showing up all over now.
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RECON, with an FN SCAR-L and a hopped up e-bike.
https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1525371785000194049
Here we see a Ukrainian sniper with an "Alligator" 14.5mm anti-materiel rifle.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1525446213289533440/photo/1
https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1525371785000194049
Here we see a Ukrainian sniper with an "Alligator" 14.5mm anti-materiel rifle.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1525446213289533440/photo/1
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https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1525547385576890370
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Some museum pieces rounded up from Luhansk separatists near Kharkiv. A couple of MP40s, a Thompson, a Pps43, a Vz23, a Mauser, an SKS, a S&W revolver, a PPSh41, an SVT40, a couple shotguns and various AKs, and of course another old Maxim.
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No. No, they can't. I'd bet it's 3+:1 on a torso target. In addition to reaquiring the point of aim, you have to cycle the gun. A bolt gun shooter is not going to do that faster than a semi-auto shooter. PLUS, it's recoil vs 556. Not happening.
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