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APB
The «aulomatic silent pistol» (APB, Index 6P13) developed by A. S. Neugodov derived from the Stechkin automatic pistol was adopted for service in 1972. Traditionally, the pistol is the barrel-slide blowback operated weapon with the iner-tial retarder of the rate of fire, hammer type firing mechanism, safety lever and the curve-slide sight. The elongated barrel … Continue reading
PB
The silent self-loading pistol (silent pistol, Index 6P9) was developed by designer A.A. Deryagin with the use of elements of the PM and adopted for service in 1967. The PB features a two-section silencer. The muzzle is provided with a jacket-expan¬sion chamber. The operation of such an inte¬gration silencer is based on the preliminary escape … Continue reading
AGS-30
The AGS-30 more light mounted grenade launcher (grenade launcher complex) was developed at the Tula-base KB Instrument Design Bureau chambered either for the same rounds VOG-17 and VOG-17M or the new one, VOG-30. The ballistics of the grenade launcher remained intact. The grenade launcher is a blowback operated weapon, the weight of the bolt is … Continue reading
AGS-17
The 30 mm AGS-17 «Plamya» automat¬ic grenade launcher developed at the KBTM (Design Bureau) A.E. Nudlemanwas adopted for service in 1971 under the des¬ignation AG-17 (mounted version AGS-17, Index 6G10), the «Molot» Plant in the city of Vyatskie Polyany had launched the weapon in production. This grenade launcher is chambered for the VOG-17 and VOG-17M … Continue reading
RGS-50M
EG-50M blow-chock effect, and later on completed with the rounds featuring grenades GO-50 of splinter effect, GK-50 hollow or shaped charge effect, GV-50 rounds intended to break out locks and the GD-50, smoke-type grenades. So, this special grenade launcher intended for police and counterterrorists’s opera¬tions acquired new combat qualities. This grenade launcher is developed on … Continue reading
6G-30
This grenade launcher was developed in grenade discharges”, the barrel of the bore 1993 by designers of the TsKIB SOO V.N. of a «rifle-grenade discharger™ is identical to Telesh and B.A. Borzov. Already in the mid- that of the barrel of the GP-25, however, 1994 the experimental grenade launchers unlike the GP-25, its barrel has … Continue reading
GP-25
The GP-25 «Koster» underbarrel grenade launcher was adopted (or service in 1978 which was developed at the TsKIB SOO by V. N. Telesh to be employed in the complex with the AKM, AKMS, AK-47 and AKS-74 assault rifles. The Tula-based Ordnance Plant (Armory) had launched the grenade launcher in production. The GP-25 (Index 6G15) is … Continue reading
Kord
Inasmuchas since from the early 1990s the main manufacturer of the NSV-12.7 machine guns was left in the «sovereign» Kazakhstan, a team of designers, including A.A. Namitulin, N.M. Obidin, Yu.M. Bogdanov and V.I. Zhirochin had performed work at Central Design Bureau (SKB) of the Kovrov Plant named after V.A. Degtayrev under the code name «KORD- … Continue reading
NSV-12
In 1972 a machine gun developed by G.I. Nikilin, Yu.M. Sokolovand V.I. Volkovwas adopted for service to replace the 12.7mm DShKM machine gun and it was designated NSV-12.7 (Nikitin-Sokolov-Volkov, 12.7 mm, code name -Utes>, Index 6P11). The machine gun Is a gas-operated weapon with a long travel of its piston and a gas-regula¬tor. In an … Continue reading
Pecheneg
The team of developers at the TsNIITOCHMASH, including A.A. Deriagin, N.N. Denisov, V.I. Suslov, M.V. Chugunov, A.S. Neugodov and others had undertook a num¬ber of measures directed to enhance the accuracy of the PKM machine gun as well as the service life of its barrel and to reduce the errors in its aiming at the … Continue reading