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Twenty-five carbines were submitted for testing on December 10, 1991. After which the winner, then designated S-3, became the KS-23M "Drozd" and was accepted for use by the police and the Internal Troops of Russia. [2] The KS-23M includes a detachable wire buttstock and shortened barrel, as opposed to the fixed wooden stock on standard KS-23s.
KS-23M Drozd shotgun; AEK-971 assault rifle; AN-94 assault rifle; AK-74M assault rifle; AK-103 assault rifle; 9A-91 carbine assault rifle; RPK-74 light machine gun;
Drozd (Russian: Дрозд, IPA: ⓘ, lit. 'thrush') is an active protection system (APS) developed in the Soviet Union, designed for increasing tanks' protection against anti-tank missiles and RPGs. It is considered the world's first operational active protection system, [ 1 ] created in 1977–78 by the KBP design bureau of A. G. Shipunov ...
Drozd was designed to destroy these warheads before they hit the armour of a vehicle being attacked. [5] It was composed of three main parts: two launcher arrays placed on either side of the gun turret and an auxiliary power unit located to the rear of the turret. [6] The arrays were controlled by two millimeter-wave radar antennae. The system ...
Kh-23M - improved Kh-23 with technology from the Kh-25 family [2] Kh-23L - Western name for a laser-guided version that in fact was the baseline Kh-25 (AS-10 'Karen') [4] A921 - Version made in Romania [3] Grom (Grom 02) - Yugoslav version that appeared in the 1980s. [7] This should not be confused with the Polish SAM
The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23 (Russian: ГШ-23) [1] is a twin-barreled 23 mm autocannon developed in the Soviet Union, primarily for military aircraft use. It entered service in 1965, replacing the earlier Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 and Rikhter R-23.
The Nudelman-Richter NR-23 is a Soviet autocannon widely used in military aircraft of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact.It was designed by A. E. Nudelman and A. A. Richter to replace the wartime Nudelman-Suranov NS-23 and Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23, entering service in 1949.
KS-23: 23×75mmR Soviet Union: Pump-action combat shotgun: Used by Spetsnaz units. [9] Saiga-12: 12-gauge Russia: Semi-automatic combat shotgun Used by Spetsnaz units. [9] Bolt action rifles Mosin–Nagant M1891/30: 7.62×54mmR Russian Empire Soviet Union: Bolt-action rifle: Seen in use by conscripts during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. [10 ...