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The Bi-7 had a weight of 4.0 kg, had a 60 cm long barrel, 111 cm overall length and an sight radius between 81 and 83 cm. [30] The trigger pull weight was adjustable between 200 and 1000 grams. [30] Soviet athletes went to the Biathlon event at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid using Bi 7-2 straight pull rifles, and won most medals.
The Vostok Brigade was form in May 2014 by Alexander Khodakovsky. Khodakovsky was the former commander of Ukraine's Alpha special unit of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). During the 2014 insurgency in Donbas, he defected to the Donetsk People's Republic. [2] He later created the Vostok Battalion which was later expanded into a brigade.
Vostok and Zapad were organized at the end of 1999, [2] initially as two special companies formed in the structure of the Mountain Grouping of the Russian Ministry of Defence; they were assigned to the commandant's offices (kommendantura) established on the territory of the Chechen Republic in 2002. The Chechen personnel were of diverse origins.
Iron. The Volkssturmgewehr ("People's Storm - Rifle") [3] is the name of several rifle designs developed by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II (February 1945-May 1945). They share the common characteristic of being greatly simplified as an attempt to cope with severe lack of resources and industrial capacity in Germany during ...
Kanevsky. The TOZ-1s were made from the late 1920s to early 1930s, until it was replaced with the improved TOZ-8 rifles. The TOZ-8 is a single shot .22LR bolt-action cadet rifle conceived in 1932 by the designer-gunsmith D. M. Kochetov and serially produced at the Tula Arms Plant. [2] The TOZ-8 is a simple device, trouble-free and reliable in ...
Also, the Mosin–Nagant action has been used to produce a limited number of commercial rifles, the most famous are the Vostok brand target rifles exported in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s chambered in the standard 7.62×54mmR round and in 6.5×54mmR, a necked-down version of the original cartridge designed for long range target shooting.
The 7.62 cm FK 36 (r) and Pak 36 (r) (7.62 cm Feldkanone (Field gun)/36 (russisch) and Panzerabwehrkanone (Anti-tank gun) 36 (russisch)) were German anti-tank guns used by the Wehrmacht in World War II. The first guns were conversions of the Soviet 76 mm divisional gun M1936 (F-22). Later in the war, the Soviet USV and ZiS-3 76 mm divisional ...
The Vostok-K ( Russian: Восток meaning "East" ), GRAU index 8K72K was an expendable carrier rocket used by the Soviet Union for thirteen launches between 1960 and 1964, six of which were crewed. [1] It was derived from the earlier Vostok-L; however, it featured uprated engines to improve performance, and enlarge its payload capacity. [2]