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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.
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
9K32 Strela-2: Infrared homing: 72 mm NATO reporting name: SA-7 Grail. Being replaced by the Strela-3 and Igla systems [12] 9K34 Strela-3: Infrared homing: NATO reporting name: SA-14 Gremlin [12] 9K310 Igla-1: Infrared homing: NATO Reporting name: SA-16 [12] 9K38 Igla: Infrared homing: NATO reporting name: SA-18. Replacing the Strela-2 and ...
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.
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)
[7] [27] Paratroopers of the 106th Guards Airborne Division in Kazakhstan, 1999 VDV spetsnaz in Georgia during the Russo-Georgian War, 2008. At the end of the Bosnian War in late 1995 the United States wanted Russia to participate in the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR) that was deployed to ensure that the Dayton Accord was followed. [28]
Optical and night sights can be installed, the rifle can also accept a 40 mm GP-25 grenade launcher. The AK-108 is a version of the AK-107 chambered in 5.56×45mm NATO , and the AK-109 is a less known and produced version chambered in 7.62×39mm .
Spetsgruppa "A", also known as Alpha Group (a popular English name), or Alfa, whose official name is Directorate "A" of the FSB Special Purpose Center (TsSN FSB) (Russian: Спецназ ФСБ "Альфа"), is a stand-alone sub-unit of Russia's special forces within the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).