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The GP-25 Kostyor ("Bonfire"), GP-30 Obuvka ("Shoe") and GP-34 are a family of Russian 40 mm under-barrel muzzleloaded grenade launchers for the AK family of assault rifles. [3] The acronym GP stands for Granatomyot Podstvolnyj , [ 3 ] "under-barrel grenade launcher" in Russian, and was adopted by Soviet forces in 1978.
The Scorpion 25th Special Forces Brigade (Kyrgyz: 25-чи Атайын Багыттагы "Скорпион" Бригадасы) or known simply as Scorpion Spetsnaz (Спецназ Скорпион) is a specialized Kyrgyz military unit in the country's Ground Forces. It is now considered to be one of the best armed formations in the armed forces.
GP-25 Kostyor 40mm caseless grenade (VOG-25M) 1978–present BG-15 Mukha initial variant GP-30 Obuvka: 1989 issue 2000 issue GP-30M Archived 2012-11-14 at the Wayback Machine GP-30U Granat (can be mounted on foreign rifles) GP-34 () Soviet Union
Suppressed sniper rifle used by special forces like Spetsnaz [7] Light and heavy machine guns. Name Type Caliber Photo Notes ... Used on the GP-25. [17] Vehicles
Used by Spetsnaz units. [7] PP-2000: 9×19mm Parabellum Russia: Submachine gun: Delivered in November 2023. [8] Shotguns 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× ...
GP-25, GP-30 and GP-34, under-barrel 40 mm grenade launchers for fragmentation and gas grenades; AGS-17 Plamya (Flame), 30 mm automatic grenade launcher; RPO-A Shmel (Bumblebee), infantry rocket flamethrower, currently replacing the older RPO Rys (Lynx) RPG-7D anti-tank rocket launcher, or more modern systems such as the RPG-22 and RPG-26
Russian border guards with a SVD and AKS-74s (in the photo, one of them is equipped with a GP-25); Air Assault Maneuver Group of the 32nd Novorossiysk Border Detachment of the FSB North Caucasus Regional Border Directorate, 2004. PKM machine gun; SVD; AK-74 series of rifles + GP-25/30/34 (options) KS-23 (and variants)
The AEK-971 (Russian: Автомат единый Кокшарова 971, "Automatic (rifle), Universal, (of) Koksharov, 971) is a selective fire 5.45×39mm assault rifle that was developed at the Kovrov Mechanical Plant (KMZ) by chief designer Stanislav Ivanovich Koksharov (Cyrilic: Станислав Иванович Кокшаров), also known as Sergey Koksharov, in the late 1970s and ...