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Interesting new PKM variant? Or just a new barrel? I don't claim to be an expert on PKMs, but I don't recall ever seeing one with either a finned barrel or a muzzle brake. The muzzle brake could easily be a locally produced accessory added by the operator,...but barrels are another matter. Ukraine might be cranking out some somewhere. They used to manufacture their own PKM copy before the war. Or (more likely) the barrel and/or the entire set up is from another former COMBLOC country like Poland or Romania or Bulgaria. But I've scoured through hundreds of photos of PKMs from all over the place, and none of them look like this one. Maybe this is just an experimental trials model that never went into wide adoption, and now a donor country is gifting it? Who knows?
Here's a couple of Russian Spetznatz operatives somewhere in Donetsk. The green weapon is a SIG 540, made under license by Manhurin in France during the late 70s. France briefly issued this rifle before adopting the FAMAS to replace it. While France has donated lots of weapons, we have yet to see any SIG 540s in Ukrainian hands. So was this previously donated to Ukraine and liberated by this Russian? Or maybe it is a rare semi-auto civilian rifle taken off of some Ukrainian militiaman? Russian special forces also have stockpiles of foreign weapons for special purposes and deniability. Maybe this has been in their own inventory for decades? Who knows? It is impossible to tell. The pistol he is holding an MP433 Gratch 9mm. And other fellow has a 9x39 AS-VAL.
A spanking brand new Beretta ARX160 in service with the KORD (which is a national police special response unit).

Here's a couple of Russian Spetznatz operatives somewhere in Donetsk. The green weapon is a SIG 540, made under license by Manhurin in France during the late 70s. France briefly issued this rifle before adopting the FAMAS to replace it. While France has donated lots of weapons, we have yet to see any SIG 540s in Ukrainian hands. So was this previously donated to Ukraine and liberated by this Russian? Or maybe it is a rare semi-auto civilian rifle taken off of some Ukrainian militiaman? Russian special forces also have stockpiles of foreign weapons for special purposes and deniability. Maybe this has been in their own inventory for decades? Who knows? It is impossible to tell. The pistol he is holding an MP433 Gratch 9mm. And other fellow has a 9x39 AS-VAL.

A spanking brand new Beretta ARX160 in service with the KORD (which is a national police special response unit).

