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Surplus SKS carbines are available in their original chambering for sale to any Russian citizen with a rifle purchase permit. [70] The bayonet must be removed, and an additional pin added to the barrel, to modify the SKS sufficiently from its status as a military arm and render it legal for civilian sales. [ 71 ]
Russian Armed Forces Russia MP-443 Grach Yarygin pistol 9×19mm Parabellum: 2003–present one of the standard sidearms for all branches of Russian Armed forces 6P35 Yarygin (prototype) 9×19mm Parabellum. MP-446 Viking (commercial) 9×19mm Parabellum. MP-446C (sporting variant) 9×19mm Parabellum Russia SR-1 Vektor Serdyukov pistol 9×21mm Gyurza
The original Soviet blade bayonet as standard to the SKS had to be replaced by a unique Yugoslav bayonet to accommodate the new mount placement. [7] A commercial variant of the M59 and M59/66 series, available for sale to civilians in some of the post-Yugoslav republics, lacked the bayonet or the ability to fire rifle grenades. [15]
After the Russian Revolution, Simonov continued further at the Moscow Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 1924 to work at Russia's giant Tula Arsenal. By 1926 he had become a quality-control inspector at Tula , and by 1927, had been promoted into the Soviet Design and Development Department where he worked directly under Fyodorov.
The 7.62×39mm (also called 7.62 Soviet, formerly .30 Russian Short) [5] round is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge of Soviet origin. The cartridge is widely used due to the global proliferation of the AK-47 rifle and related Kalashnikov-pattern rifles , the SKS semi-automatic rifle, and the RPD / RPK light machine guns.
Short range surface-to-air missile: 3+ Soviet Union: One from the Vostok Battalion was seen near the Donetsk Airport in July 2014 nicknamed "Лягушонок" (frogling). [1] [69] [unreliable source?] One seen in a Sverdlovsk convoy. [18] Another one spotted by OSCE SMM in 2021 nearl Luhansk. [70] 9K331M Tor-M2: Short range surface-to-air ...
The OSV-96 can keep the shooter outside of the effective range of conventional calibers providing a distinct advantage over lower caliber rifles. Specialized high-accuracy 12.7×108mm 7N34 59.0 gram FMJ and AP sniper cartridges have been developed for Russian .50-caliber sniper rifles such as this rifle. Large caliber machine gun cartridges can ...
The 2A36 has the longest range of any Soviet or Russian 152 mm caliber artillery fielded since the mid-20th century, with a range of 40 km (25 mi) with rocket-assisted projectiles (RAP), while its only outranged by the 203 mm (8.0 in) 2S7 Pion with RAP rounds.