Guns of Ukraine war picture thread

[Suck My Glock]

https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1586433948988887040

More Polish GROT rifles in Ukraine. This one about to be painted by an American MMA fighter and former Marine who goes by TUC Smash.
https://twitter.com/TucSmash/status/1586390754552709120

American volunteer with an early pre-Malyuk AK74 bullpup, near Mylove.

 

[Suck My Glock]

A Ukrainian wringing out a SIG 716 on the range in Lviv.

More Canadian Diemaco (Colt Canada) C7A1 rifles, one with an Elcan Spectre

Slightly unrelated, but sort of not,...did you know the Polish army still has horse cavalry? They patrol the border with Belarus. Quiet and all terrain.

Once someone challenges the NFA of 1934 under BRUEN in the near future, the arguments before the SCOTUS in MILLER v. US will be revisited once more, wherein short-barrelled shotguns, rifles and suppressors were argued as not suitable to the militia because they were "not common" in use in warfare, and therefor not protected by the 2nd Amendment. The war in Ukraine has shown this has changed dramatically.

 

[xerts1911]

Stuff looks like it’s right out of the box ^^^^
Guys on the horses, looks like a photo shop job on that particular background?
Send in the Calvary I say

 

[Suck My Glock]

Daniel Defense rifles and Glocks

This is Ingvar, who appeared on here on page 16 back in May. This pic is from mid-September near Kharkiv. He's still rocking his privately-owned 7.62 AK, which you can see in more detail in this pic than last time. He hasn't bothered to upgrade it, although his gear has upgraded.

Combat pussy

 

[Suck My Glock]

Wagner contractors

This is Tseng, from Taiwan. He is one of many in Taiwan who believe China is watching closely how badly things are going for Russia, and that the outcome in Ukraine will affect China's decision on whether to attempt invading Taiwan. So Tseng went to Ukraine to fight the hordes, hoping a good performance on the field might spare his own country from having to go through this as well. Tseng gave the full measure for that belief and was killed last week.

https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1589265727026266113

With Belarus seemingly maybe finally siding with Russia and potentially jumping into the war, Poland is preparing for having to fight Belarus. As a result, although they discontinued the draft in 2009, Poland offers a 1 day military familiarization camp for anyone to come and get checked out on how to operate basic infantry weapons, and it is very popular these days. Here we see Polish citizens being taught how to operate a GROT rifle.

A couple of Ukrainians on the range playing with their Barretts

Another Savage 110 precision rifle

 

[CharleneRJackson]

And just in case you are contemplating heading to Ukraine to volunteer and kill a commie for Mommy,...here is video of some crash course live fire training just before the invasion, where instructors fire near their students to get them accustomed to being shot at. This is common training regimen in the region, we are told.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQQcGw87ABw&t

“This is common training regimen in the region, we are told.”

Yeah, it is, and having seen the marksmanship skills of some of those former Warsaw Pact soldiers its a lot more dangerous than you think-it ain’t like Carlos Hathcock is shooting near those students. Eastern European armies are FAR more accepting of training casualties than we are. While in the US Army I spent a year in a former Soviet republic helping to prepare it for transition to NATO. They were kinda poor at the time and still developing their economy which meant they didn’t have a lot to spend on their military. Specifically they had “airborne” units but no planes (like C-130’s) to jump from and not even an airborne school, however all the officers were expected to “earn” jump wings (enlisted not so much). Basically they labeled these units as airborne in preparation for the day when they’d get enough funding to actually become paratrooper units and to build esprit (plus “airborne” sounded cool). So these guys were using old piece of sh!t French and Soviet parachutes (if a US Army rigger had packed chutes this raggedy and given them to troops they would’ve been charged with criminal negligence and dereliction of duty) and doing five jumps from an old AN-2 “Colt” Soviet era biplane to obtain their their jump wings. The planes weren’t certified, the chutes were never inspected, they had no riggers, and no SOP’s-what could go wrong? When you’d visit their unit go at any given time at least 25% of the officers were limping or on crutches. If they broke their leg on say their 3rd jump, they gimped around till it healed and did two more. One dude broke his leg TWICE in five jumps (amazingly nobody died). Were they tougher than your average US soldier? Oh yeah-definitely . Were they smarter than the average US soldier? Not as much.

That is really great way to give training.

 

[xerts1191]

:shock:

 

[Suck My Glock]

Mauser C-96 siezed by Russian occupation authorities in Kherson

Russian with a Steyr AUG-ZA3 cal 9x19mm, Melitopol August 2022. This gun was probably in civilian ownership before seizure.

Makarov PB cal 9x18mm, the integrally suppressed PM. This pistol is on the edge of rare and scarce to see, and it will generally only be seen with Special Forces such as here.

Civilian shotgun that was not only seized for a photo op, but judging by the shells in his vest the Russian soldier is using it operationally. He also has a Ukrainian Malyuk AK.

AK-105 captured by a Ukrainian. The AK-100 series rifles are rare to see in active military service in the 2020's. Generally, they were acquired by Internal Ministry forces, special forces and exported. Russia has deployed both SF and Internal forces to Ukraine.

No doubt you have seen some of the videos out there of drones dropping munitions on top of troops in trenches and foxholes. But here is another weapon - a psychological weapon - that Ukrainians are dropping on Russians. These dildos get dropped on their heads, with notes attached informing the Russian position they are about to get phuked, and invites them to surrender rather than die.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1589633780209549315/photo/1

 

[Suck My Glock]

Using drones to drop munitions on the heads of Russians and on tanks and trucks has so impressed the Taiwanese who are worried about invasion by China have begun an assembly line of specifically manufactured bomber drones. Interestingly, rather that battery-powered, these have a small gas motor generator that then powers the electric props. Notice the 8-pack bomb racks.
https://twitter.com/dronesdeguerra/status/1590088579631702016

Here's some footage of close combat in thick cover against Russians in foxholes and trenches.
https://youtu.be/guB4no7aeeY?t=182

 

[Suck My Glock]

https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1591700396208275462

Here's a Donetsk separatist Russian lackey with a captured FNC taken from a Ukrainian soldier.

American volunteer on the left has his Polish GROT, while the Ukrainian in center has an M249 and his buddy has a liberated AK12. Granny babushka has her cane to whack vatniks in the pee pee.

The Russians bugged out of Kherson so quickly and in such a disorganized clusterphuk, several thousand got left behind and are hiding anywhere they can. They've ditched their uniforms and are fugitives in a foreign land. But because all the fighting age males were kidnapped and shipped off to Russia, they stand out if they show their faces and aren't wearing a Ukrainian uniform, and are being rounded up rather quickly. Most are not shooting it out, but some are. To keep casualties to a minimum, every available dog handler team has been sent to the region to go house to house, farm to farm, basement to basement. In this photo, the SIG Virtus and Surfire suppressor give this guy away as part of FOG (Forward Observation Group), analogous to U.S. Ranger Pathfinders.

https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1592615916818563072

 

[Suck My Glock]

M4 carbines with ACOGs and EOTechs

https://twitter.com/AbraxasSpa/status/1593975761081454592

2 American volunteers outside of Bakhmut, armed with customized 5.45 AK74s. Among the many nationalities volunteering in Ukraine, Americans tend to have the most money to spend on their gear. And often, through contacts at home, they end up being conduits through which donated gear is collected and sent to their units improve their personal gear for all.

And this is why Russia retreated from Kherson when they did. This is the same muddy season that plagued the Germans in WW2 and prevented them from assaulting deeper into Russia, and prevented them from effectively retreating either. The snow is falling, but things are not yet frozen. The snow melts and everything turns to muck, making travel on anything but pavement by anything but horseback a fugging nightmare. The Russians need time to lick their wounds and bring up reinforcements and are looking to the weather to provide them that operational pause. Ukraine's challenge is to use drones and artillery to deny them that respite. But by January, everything will be frozen solid and the tanks can roll once more.

 

[Suck My Glock]

NATO supplies of stuff are so good now that even the COMBLOC weaponry gets outfitted with NATO accessories. The Russians and their allies almost NEVER put optics on their GPMGs, and even most of NATO didn't until relatively recently. But here is a sign of the influence of the training doctrine the west has been providing.

Another example of NATO influence on training. Here we see a Ukrainian impersonating a western SF operator; elbow tucked low, off hand far forward, driving the muzzle. Costa would be proud. Only the Makarov in the holster and the Ukraine emblem give him away.

FN SCAR-L, Daniel Defense AR15, suppressed Savage 10 BA

CZ Bren2

 

[aroyobob]

Didn't see this one, traditional outfits with PPsh and Mauser

 

[xerts1191]

Girls with guns thread

 

[Suck My Glock]

We already know the Russian weapon systems like the AK and PKM run just fine in frozen conditions. But I wonder how well Stoner's AR systems will fare this winter in Ukraine?
https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1595494995674423296

The Ukrainians are upgrading their basic AK74s whenever they can. More and more often examples like this are being seen. This a member of the 227th Territorial Defense Battalion, specifically created to defend Kharkiv, undergoing training. His issued rifle has a full-length railed aluminum heat shield forearm, originally popular only on civilian-owned AKs, but the government has been putting them on more and more rifles. Same with optics. At the beginning of the war, few AK rifles in service had any. Now there quite a few outfitted with either red dots or magnified scopes. Jumping in and out of vehicles is easier with folding stocks, so many like the one here are being retrofitted to rifles that formerly had fixed stocks.

Thermal sight is a Ukrainian-made Archer TSA-7, mounted on Zbroyar-10 (AR10 copies).

More and more Remington ACRs are showing up in Ukraine. Apparently, as part of its recovery from the dead, the new reborn Remington cut a deal with Ukraine and has started supplying ACRs to some of the Territorial Defense Force units. This picture is from last week on the west bank of the Dnieper in Kherson. Likewise, Poland bought some of these from the old Remington back before Poland withdrew from Afghanistan and issued them to their recon/intel SF unit known as the SWW, back before Poland adopted and issued the GROT. Poland has already donated GROTs to Ukraine, and probably also their Remington ACRs now that the GROT has been adopted and issued across all Polish armed services.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1596185486837497856/photo/1

American volunteer attached to the Marines, with his suppressed Malyuk. The guy behind him has a suppressed Z-10.

Another Marine, this time with another Beretta MG42/59

Russian sniper, suppressed Dragunov

Ukrainian sniper in Kherson, keeping watch across the Dnieper River with his M14.

 

[XJThrottle]

We already know the Russian weapon systems like the AK and PKM run just fine in frozen conditions. But I wonder how well Stoner's AR systems will fare this winter in Ukraine?

Garand Thumb did a comparison on his channel a while back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbjpIP5ShH0&t=1951s

 

[underw0rld]

Use a PFPE Fluorinated Oil and they are rated to -90. I know for a fact the M249 would not run with the suggested LSP when it got colder than 35 back in the day

 

[Suck My Glock]

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1596568707886899200/photo/1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQai4oYXsA

These are Russian defectors fighting for Ukraine. Their name for themselves is "Legion", hence the L-shaped gang sign. They are all outfitted with donated FN-2000 bullpups.

 

[Mike-4]

FN 2000s?! Wow! First time I've seen them photographed in an actual conflict. Thanks for all your postings!

 

[Suck My Glock]

So,...if you catch a round directly in a grenade on your chest gear,...does it go boom?

The answer is;...sometimes. Depends on the grenade and how hard it was hit and with what. If the round punches through to the detonator,...goodnight Francis. But as these pictures show, sometimes your ornaments stop those angry hornets from stinging you.

Here's an old Soviet F1 grenade that took a 7.62x39 round centered to the main body. Did it not go off because the projectile didn't impact the detonator, or because it was typical soviet quality control and was a dud to begin with? Who knows?

Here's a later Russian RGD5, hit by a 5.45x39 projectile, probably after first ricochetting off of something else first.

And here's an Israeli-produced copy of the American M67, with a steel core from a 7.62x54R that has already shed most of itself after already perforating through something else before hitting the grenade.

A Ukrainian riverine raider with his Polish 40mm 6-shooter.

A Russian sniper with a KSVK 6S8-1 bullpup rifle chambered in 12.7x108 back in September, near Horlivka.

Congrats comrade, you've been drafted into the glorious Russian Army.
But I'm a man of God.
Get in the phucking truck.