Guns of Ukraine war picture thread

[Suck My Glock]

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1684587484439617536

Another bipod-mounted DShK .50

When your ELCAN Spectre sight is worth 4 times your rifle,...

This is the personally owned Daniel Defense Delta 5 Pro of Roman Sukhomlyn, one of Ukraine's premier competitive civilian shooters before the war. Roman spent a lot of time mentoring other shooters, young and old, acting as a good shepherd for the sport. His civilian job was working as a manager at Personal Defense, an indoor range and gun shop in Odessa. If you were a sport shooter in the Odessa region before 2022, you knew who he was. His other personally owned Daniel Defense rifle he took to war was an M4A1 RIII (also pictured below). Roman joined his territorial defense force unit after the invasion. It's unknown exactly how many Russians he personally perforated, but despite being nearly constantly in the field for 14 months, no Russian counter-sniper could get him. Unfortunately, a random mortar did.

The shooting sport community in Odessa has already memorialized him at an event held recently, naming the range facility in his honor, as well as the yearly championship trophy match,...once the war is over and matches resume, that is.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1685035468696571904

More Dutch donated HK 416s

More Polish GROT rifles

Not many standard and unmodified AKs in Ukrainian service anymore. Certainly there are some,...but how many is unclear. As time goes on, more and more are getting upgraded like this one, with extended op handle, better safety lever, adjustable stock, red dot and magnifier.

 

[Suck My Glock]

A trio of Ruger Precision Rifles in the field.

https://twitter.com/historicfirearm/status/1685269520716283905

Chey Tac M200 'Intervention' sniper rifles chambered in .408 Chey Tac (10.36×77mm). While the rifles were donated, they came with only a small initial supply of ammo, which is difficult to find. Frequently, this keeps them from being used and why these examples are in such fine shape. There's plenty of .338 Lapua, .300WinMag ammo and other larger-than-.30 caliber cartridges that various NATO militaries have adopted in some amount that are able to be supplied. But .408 Chey Tac (like .416 Barrett) is one of those proprietary civilian calibers that just isn't in readily stockpiled amounts by any government that can be shipped off and supplied. Someone in private charity needs to identify the need for the caliber, then raise the funds, then contact Chey-Tac and order the ammo, then manage to ship it out the units in Ukraine. It has happened a couple of times, but that's it. Meanwhile, UKROP, the ammo manufacturer in Ukraine, has too much to worry about than to tool up for some new odd caliber to supply maybe 50 rifles across the country. So these just continue to sit around looking cool,...but not killing Russians.

 

[paulgt2164]

Lol, how much would it suck to be those guys and get such an awesome looking gun - then find out ammo is hard to find, even in the US where the rifles are made.

Makes you wonder why even bother shipping/donating.

 

[XJThrottle]

Lol, how much would it suck to be those guys and get such an awesome looking gun - then find out ammo is hard to find, even in the US where the rifles are made.

Makes you wonder why even bother shipping/donating.

Grandstanding by Chey Tac. "We helped too"...

 

[paulgt2164]

"Here you go Volodymyr, your new schniper rifle to killz all de ruzzian scum, it iz very fancy and cost Americans 12 thousand dollars"

*Much excitement*

"and de four bullits it came with, all we haz."

*whomp whomp whoooooomp*

 

[Suck My Glock]

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1688178244107763717

FN SCAR-L with mounted FN grenade launcher and a surplus U.S. M9 pistol.

https://twitter.com/UnseenOps/status/1688921208933498882

https://twitter.com/henry_Pringles/status/1689649908180283394

A suppressed Brugger & Thomet APR338 with thermal scope near the banks of the Dnieper.

Israeli volunteers in Lyman with FN SCAR-Ls and Minimi

 

[xerts1191]

Good stuff SMG

 

[Suck My Glock]

In America, your grandma knits you a sweater because she loves you. In Ukraine, babushka builds you a guillie suit so you can take revenge on the demon spawn who killed grandpa.

You have to look really close to make it out, but this is yet another FDE Remington ACR.

https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1691546017823436801

 

[smithers599]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RussiaUkraineWar2022/comments/15y3wv4/destroying_an_enemy_dji_mavic_with_a_rifled/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=10&utm_content=1&rdt=40221

 

[Suck My Glock]

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1694019475689869624/photo/1

Ukrainian Naval Special Ops boys with FN SCARs and grenade launcher.

This 45 year old Afghan volunteer lost his family to the Russians back in the 80s, when he was only 8 years old. His personal jihad is to get revenge on the Russians for that. So he came to Ukraine. He has his AK74 and the PKM behind him, near Chernihiv.

Captured AK12 and AS-VAL

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1695333649195942141

 

[Suck My Glock]

Spain has decided to dump their surplus CETME-Ls on Ukraine. They appear to have been issued to Ukraine's Border Guards. I hope they all check to verify their magazines fit. Check out Ian McCollum's videos on Forgotten Weapons to learn about how the Cetme-Ls are not known for being a quality item.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1695769947316580361

 

[Suck My Glock]

Bren 2s with suppressors, dude on right has a FORT 12 pistol in his chest rig. Dude on right has the less common new camo pattern I have decided to call "Digital Rhodesian".

With Crimea separated from the rest of Ukraine by swamps and open water, and with as much river and ocean waterfront Ukraine has, they have always needed a naval commando force and frogmen. The Navy Seals aren't too keen on inviting outsiders into their training rotations to share shop secrets, although the British Special Boat Squadrons, Germany's Kommando Spezialkräfte Marine Kampfschwimmerz and Israel's Shayetet-13 are some exceptions to that rule. These Ukrainian frogmen have been spending time in Germany being tutored by the Kampfschwimmers and are rumored to be getting further tutoring in country out of the Odessa main port, primarily, conducting anti-infiltration and anti-sabotage security patrols and drills, and simultaneously honing their skills to do exactly that themselves at Sevastopol and other Crimean targets. The Holy Grail being somehow getting at the pylons holding up the Kerch Straight Bridge and blowing those. Rumor has it that the entire reason Russia got paranoid with the idea of an amphibious invasion of the Crimean coast and spent all that time and effort digging trenches on the beaches and deploying troops up and down that coast is because of all the midnight raids these frogmen have been executing. They are all supposedly small events that have escaped the notice of the press. But Russia seems to be taking them VERY seriously. Here we see them with some basic M4 carbines and Draeger rebreathers.

More Bren 2s with riverine raiders

Lots of probing attacks and constantly harassing the swamp-stationed Russians along the Dnipro River. Nothing mows the grass quite like a .50

Another Ruger Precision Rifle covering the plains of Zaporizhzhia.

Russian remotely piloted ground robot, armed with a 7.62x54R belt-fed PKT vehicle gun undergoing trials. No reports yet of these being deployed to Ukraine, but no doubt that is coming.

 

[Suck My Glock]

Ever seen the transit case a brand new Mk19 40mm grenade launcher comes in?

More FN SCAR-Ls

A Ukrainian airborne troopie cleaning his HK416 in the field.

Hey ma, look what I found!

 

[Suck My Glock]

More Spanish surplus Cetme-L rifles with Ukrainian border guards seen in a rear training area.

Ok,...not a gun, but ingenious none the less, and I find it interesting. The Ukrainians are calling these modified anti-tank mines "Enterprise" mines, because they resemble the saucer section of the starship Enterprise, and they fly,...or at least towards their target when dropped by drone. And the Russians have littered the countryside with hundreds of thousands of these, which the Ukrainians can literally just pick up off the ground and throw at the Russians. Easily retrofitted in the field without need of sending these back to a depot for conversion, the longer section of PVC pipe with an empty water bottle on it is the stabilizing drogue that ensures it falls onto the impact fuse on the opposite side. The other shorter piece of PVC has a little computer fan attached that spins as the mine falls, creating the electrical current to fire the detonator upon closing the circuit on impact. Unlike the smaller grenade-sized munitions dropped by smaller drones, these monsters are equivalent to somewhere between an 81mm and 120mm mortar in explosive payload, with potential to collapse some poorly constructed bunkers and dugouts.

https://twitter.com/front_ukrainian/status/1698349320569786783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1698349320569786783%7Ctwgr%5E2e316e36060f56543a9810ccd0cffa5d0004f38f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2F169aonc%2F%3Fresponsive%3Dtrueis_nightmode%3Dfalse

AR10 types aren't the only modern recent production 7.62NATO battle rifles in Ukraine. Along with the CZ Bren2 in 5.56, CZ has also supplied a smaller number of Bren2 BRs. (I think BR stands for "Battle Rifle", but not certain.) This is one of them.

 

[Suck My Glock]

A privately owned IWI semi-auto rifle in Ukraine.

Barrett M99 in the corn field,....

The Russians have lain so many anti-tank mines along likely routes a vehicle might go, that traveling by horse is often safer, because you can take paths that are unlikely for any vehicle and have a reduced likelihood of getting shwacked. A few mobile medics have resorted to commandeering abandoned horses left behind after farmers flee the combat and use them to respond to calls for help. (It is also a tactic to deny the Russians fresh food, because they have often slain and butchered and eaten every animal they get their hands on because resupply is so bad.) So when your unit calls for the cavalry,...that just might be exactly what you get. The nickname for these medics are "cowboys", not only because they ride in and save the day, but because it takes balls to go alone into a combat zone where Russians would love to obliterate you.

 

[Suck My Glock]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1luw3zePis

https://twitter.com/jmscaronte/status/1700980926724120672

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1701363175529071051

Belorusian KGB apprehended saboteur cells that were planning to attack the railways in Stowbtsy (Minsk Region) and Talachyn (Vitebsk Region). The saboteurs were allegedly operating as a part of Ukrainian Forces. Railway sabotage in Belarus was key in early 2022 to stalling the trains full of Russian troops and gear positioned there that never was able to get into the fight. The trains were loaded with the fuel the pre-positioned convoys needed to attack. But the trains were stalled due to the sabotage and the fuel never got up to the line. These agents were apprehended with SIG 320s fitted with bare suppressors with no markings. No word on what markings the blocks of TNT did or didn't have. Plausible deniability only goes so far. Regardless of whether those captured turn out to be Ukrainian, Belorussian or Polish,...the pistols most likely originated in South Carolina.

https://twitter.com/historicfirearm/status/1701747725279047799

 

[Suck My Glock]

https://twitter.com/historicfirearm/status/1702123332592718281

An American volunteer with a suppressed Springfield Armory Saint Victor sporting a Vortex Crossfire II.

A Taiwanese volunteer with his CZ Bren 2.

Nothing attracts black pussy like a SASS M110

 

[Suck My Glock]

Yep,...all that trigger time at Big Sandy learning how to knock RC aircraft out of the sky turns out to be an essential skill in today's use of kamikaze drone warfare. Just ask this poor Rooskie rag doll that's now shredded all over the corn field.
https://twitter.com/cossackgundi/status/1702537991032344744

ELCAN Hi-Mag mounted to a SNIPEX T-Rex 14.5x114mm

American volunteer with M240 at the range.

Former Marine American volunteer with Canadian donated ATV sporting a "Sabre" robotic weapons station on the back. Typically, these are outfitted with a 7.62x54R PKT belt-fed and operated using an X-box video game controller. This allows the scout on the ATV to cruise along investigating his territory until he draws fire,...then dismounts and seeks cover, yet hoses down the source of fire with the RWS still sticking up high and able to exploit the angle.

An MDT chassis rifle

 

[Suck My Glock]

Here we see an early Aghanistan-era Polish GROT rifle, from the first full production batch in 2017, which were issued to Polish SF units rotating to Afghanistan. After that initial first production run, all GROT rifles produced afterward were in basic black. Most of the desert tan GROTs that returned from there were donated to Ukraine last year. It seems the rifle here may have been battle damaged and had its lower receiver replaced.

https://twitter.com/historicfirearm/status/1705557000233333008

Yes, tigerstripe cammies in Ukraine are a thing. There is an awful lot of waterfront swampy bog terrain along the Dnipro and northern Crimea. Marine and SF raiders are continuously operating in that terrain, which is rather similar to the Everglades or the grassy reeds of the Vietnamese waterways along the Mekong.

HK MG5 first seen in Ukraine at the range with a Greek volunteer.
https://twitter.com/EvstPalaiologos/status/1706856923453137345

 

[trailboss60]

These politicians are idiots.

https://www.azfamily.com/video/2023/09/27/phoenix-ditches-plan-send-unclaimed-guns-ukraine/