Guns of Ukraine war picture thread

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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).

 

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Shotgun Sasha, shooter of speeding slavic sky spy sookuhs!

Bored Boris and his Benelli await with baited breath to blast buzzing Bolshevik bombing birds, blyat!

Two Accuracy International rifles; an AXMC in .338Lapua and an old school Arctic Warfare in 7.62NATO with a Rattler thermal optic.

A civilian semi-auto Radical Arms AR15 pressed into service, with matching tactical crutches.

 

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Nyet, Sasha. We have minigun at home.

Another chopped and bobbed shorty PKM.

 

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The Russian version of CornerShot, with a periscope system adapted to an AK-74M.

https://x.com/historicfirearm/status/1879530308456124868


Russian recon detachment with a North Korean Type 73 GPMG in an improvised sidecar motorcycle mount. So very German.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czfw3kSQJ70

UKROP Z-10 being employed in the field.

As the skills of how to bring down small FPV drones with #4 shot become more recognized, more and more soldiers are being issued shotguns to watch for everyone's local skyline.

 

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Desert Tech bullpup sniper rifles are still all over the place in Ukrainian service. This one seen most recently on the Kursk front.

Some units are still fielding FNC rifles.

If you look closely, in this image from Ukrainian special forces Kraken regiment, you'll spy a B&T APC9kPro with a suppressor, very similar to those adopted by U.S. Army, Air Force and Border Patrol. Next to it is an LMT 40mm launcher.

 

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Helmets save lives. American volunteer got smacked in the dome by the rudder fin of an RPG as it flew just over his head.
https://twitter.com/Whiskey_TOG19D/status/1571439576429756417


The Ukrainian-made, Snipex Alligator 14.5x114 long-range, large-caliber, anti-materiel rifle — seen here with a silencer. According to Ukraine’s military, can penetrate a 10 mm armor plate from a single shot 1.5 km away.

Ukraine SF with polish RGP-40

https://twitter.com/Blue_Sauron/status/1571888517227188224

[highlight=yellow]Yes,...helmets matter.[/highlight]

https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1883652022034891011

 

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Helmets save lives. American volunteer got smacked in the dome by the rudder fin of an RPG as it flew just over his head.
https://twitter.com/Whiskey_TOG19D/status/1571439576429756417

[highlight=yellow]Yes,...helmets matter.[/highlight]

https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1883652022034891011

 

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Helmets save lives. American volunteer got smacked in the dome by the rudder fin of an RPG as it flew just over his head.
https://twitter.com/Whiskey_TOG19D/status/1571439576429756417

[highlight=yellow]Yes,...helmets matter.[/highlight]

https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1883652022034891011

 

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Helmets save lives. American volunteer got smacked in the dome by the rudder fin of an RPG as it flew just over his head.
https://twitter.com/Whiskey_TOG19D/status/1571439576429756417

[highlight=yellow]Yes,...helmets matter.[/highlight]

https://x.com/Mrgunsngear/status/1883652022034891011

 

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Ukrainian weapons company FORT, who made the licensed copies of Tavors and Galils, and makes domestic designed pistols, also produces their own 9x19 closed-bolt submachinegun design, the FORT 230. Introduced for the first time in early 2021, it didn't get much lead time for production before the war started 8 months later, so that's why you don't see many.

More Polish GROT rifles.

Wheat farming fashion in Ukraine. Rifles for russkies and shotguns for dive-bombing drones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWhYpeLlT-8

Photo from late September, near Lyman. Notice the fellow kneeling and the dude on the right;...both armed with HK417 DMR variants.

 

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Captured in Kursk by Ukrainian forces, here's another depot-level modified AK12 that has had the barrel, gas tube and bolt-carrier bobbed to fabricate an un-issued non-standard AK12 "krinkov", or AK12k, as many are taking to referring to these now. AKSU-74s are harder to come by than before, as so many have been destroyed or captured, and the new actual AK12-based shorty variant, called the AM17, which is supposedly in production now, have yet to be issued and seen in the field. So for now, if a russkie wants a shorty blaster, he's got to go rob one from somewhere, or have the regimental armorer craft one of these.

In a Ukrainian hideout in Kursk, we see a KAC M110 SASS, an early Sako TRG, a suppressed CZ Bren2, a suppressed commercial semi-auto M4gery 11.5in barrelled shorty and three G17s.

A couple of HK433s and a Daniel Defense DD4, on the range in Ukraine.

 

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Captured in Kursk by Ukrainian forces, here's another depot-level modified AK12 that has had the barrel, gas tube and bolt-carrier bobbed to fabricate an un-issued non-standard AK12 "krinkov", or AK12k, as many are taking to referring to these now. AKSU-74s are harder to come by than before, as so many have been destroyed or captured, and the new actual AK12-based shorty variant, called the AM17, which is supposedly in production now, have yet to be issued and seen in the field. So for now, if a russkie wants a shorty blaster, he's got to go rob one from somewhere, or have the regimental armorer craft one of these.

Propped up against a crate that came from the US...

 

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Captured in Kursk by Ukrainian forces, here's another depot-level modified AK12 that has had the barrel, gas tube and bolt-carrier bobbed to fabricate an un-issued non-standard AK12 "krinkov", or AK12k, as many are taking to referring to these now. AKSU-74s are harder to come by than before, as so many have been destroyed or captured, and the new actual AK12-based shorty variant, called the AM17, which is supposedly in production now, have yet to be issued and seen in the field. So for now, if a russkie wants a shorty blaster, he's got to go rob one from somewhere, or have the regimental armorer craft one of these.

Propped up against a crate that came from the US...

I wondered if anyone would notice that.

 

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Well here's another museum piece being used in the war. The PK won the competition in 1961 as the new Russian GPMG against the Nikitin design. But in 1960, Russia held field trials between the two designs, issuing both to 4 separate units, including one in Odessa, which is where this surviving Nikitin specimen has been mothballed til the current unpleasantries. No idea how many in total were manufactured at the Degtyaryov plant in Kovrov, but likely only dozens. The 1960 date stamp and Degtyaryov arsenal stamp are plainly seen on the top rear.
In these photos you can see the influence the Sg43 Goryunov (the medium MG the Nikitin was intended to replace) had on the Nikitin. The barrel has the same deep fluting, cone flash suppressor and carry handle, and the optic mount is exactly the same as some later SGMs (the last version of the Goryunov).

 

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I think I've seen only one other K98 Mauser in the whole war before this one, taken back in October near Adzhamka. It too was a scoped marksman version. With as many Wehrmacht weapons left behind after WW2 that appeared in museums all over the country, and which were also turned out for use in this war, I'm surprised we haven't seen more of them. Also, another DP28 being deployed for anti-drone use.

While we have seen plenty of HK416s, mostly donated by the Norwegians and Dutch, here we see for the first time a current issue German G95, also known as the HK416a7.

 

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Anti-drone shotgunnery has a new emphasis across not just Ukraine but the entire world now.

Turkey is supplying most of the shotguns in Ukraine these days. Although Turkish shotguns have a reputation as not being as robust as they could/should be, combat tends to refine weaponry. When this is all over, perhaps Turkish shotguns will evolve and improve even in the American market?

An individual's kit, consisting of a Daniel Defense DDM4, HK VP9 and a Polish RGP40.

Another PKM modified shorty for the urban assaulters. Reportedly, they are also popular with the riverine raiders and frogmen on the Crimean front.

 

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What's better than an FN 40mm grenade launcher? Why 2 Fn 40mm grenade launchers. DUH!!

Yes,...T-33 Tokarevs are still blasting away in Ukraine.

You have to look closely here, but there are 2 G36 rifles in this pic from last summer in Kursk.

Posing with a captured Russian ASVK-M 12.7x108mm anti-materiel rifle in Kursk.

 

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Some FORT 224 copies of the Tavor are still seeing service. Mostly popular with vehicles crews and officers.

A sniper with his Tavor copy near Patrovsk.

A captured Turkish-made Sarsilmaz copy of the FN/MAG by Russian forces in the Kursk area.

A G3 designated marksman's model on the range in Ukraine.

 

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FNCs were donated by Belgium almost immediately when the war began. They were initially issued primarily to foreign volunteers. In the 3 years since, their numbers have dwindled due to attrition. But they are still out there with some units.

Mosins have been employed by both sides, but mostly the Russians. But the Ukrainian samples have often been better outfitted, as we see here.

A marksman and his early model (circa 2017) Zbroyar Z10. First production models did not include a forward assist. Later production included them.

A Brit and German team of foreign volunteers, part of the 3rd Assault Brigade, undergoing trench assault training near Lviv. Of note is that they been issued new domestically produced license built CZ Bren 2 rifles that are the new official rifle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Production is picking up and these are quickly becoming the most commonly seen individual arm in the service.