Small arms news

The new Kalashnikov assault rifle will be able to shoot cartridges of three calibers. Yesterday, on August 25, the press service of the concern published a promo video of a carbine model with replaceable barrels.

Kalashnikov can launch licensed production of automatic weapons in Saudi Arabia in a few months after the signing of the contract, the general director of the concern Vladimir Lepin told Interfax.

Alexander Kochkin, Executive Director of JSC "NPK "Techmash", said that the Ministry of Defense will be able to purchase the complex only after the release of administrative documents on its adoption into service.

Russia has received new applications from the countries of Central Asia, Afghanistan's neighbors, for the supply of helicopters, small arms and border protection systems, the company's CEO Alexander Mikheev told RIA Novosti during the Army-2021 forum.

The situation with the pandemic in Venezuela is still not easy, so it is extremely difficult to guarantee full protection from coronavirus to specialists in the current conditions, Vladimir Lepin, CEO of the Kalashnikov concern, told Interfax.

The US sanctions imposed against Kalashnikov are aimed at giving the Americans an advantage in the small arms market, Vladimir Lepin, CEO of the concern, told Interfax.

The concern expects high demand from foreign customers for the new AK-19 automatic rifle

"Kalashnikov" expects high demand from foreign customers for the new AK-19 automatic rifle with a NATO cartridge (5.56x45 mm) and is ready to establish its production abroad,the general director of the concern Vladimir Lepin told Interfax.

On Wednesday, August 25, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, after visiting the shooting center in the Patriot Park, instructed to speed up state tests of promising small arms and protective equipment for VKS pilots.

According to the representative of the plant, it is expected that the duration of operation of collimators on one power source will be approximately equal to 10 thousand hours

The latest collimator sights of open and closed type produced by the S. A. Zverev Krasnogorsk Plant (part of the Shvabe holding of the Rostec State Corporation) were presented at the Army-2021 military-technical forum, a TASS correspondent reports from the event.

Belarus is interested in purchasing AK-12 submachine guns, but an official application has not yet been received from Minsk, Dmitry Shugaev, director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation, told reporters on Wednesday during the Army-2021 forum.

The International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021" is being held near Moscow from August 22 to 28, and the exposition of Belarus is one of the brightest.

At the "Army-2021" you can see the best samples of Belarusian military equipment. Various means of communication, military telecommunications, radar equipment, unmanned aerial vehicles are widely represented. Specialists are interested in electronic warfare systems, including those designed to combat drones.

The PPK-20 submachine gun, presented by the Kalashnikov concern at the Army-2021 forum, has a number of features that distinguish it from the usual AK. This was told to" RG " by the head of the direction of the directorate for military-technical cooperation of the concern, Vladimir Onokoy.

As part of the scientific and business program of the MVTF "Army-2021", Alexey Shchekin, head of the Department for the development of small arms ammunition of TSNIITOCHMASH JSC, announced priority directions for the development of small arms ammunition.

Most of the modules have been independently tested

The Uralvagonzavod Concern (UVZ, part of the Rostec State Corporation) has developed a series of remotely controlled combat modules (DUBM) designed to equip ships of the Navy. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the UVZ during the International military-Technical Forum "Army-2021".

The cost of the gun is expected to be around 130 thousand rubles

The latest cyberweapon "Ultima" can be pre-ordered on the website of the online store of the Kalashnikov Group of Companies. This was reported in the press service of the company.

As noted in Kalashnikov, potential customers are also interested in the latest small-sized automatic machine AM-17

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation received shortened AK-12 submachine guns for trial operation. This was reported to TASS during the International Military-Technical Forum "Army-2021 "in the press service of the Kalashnikov Group of Companies (GC).

The AK-12 will become the main automatic weapon of the Russian Armed Forces for the next decades, the press service of the Kalashnikov concern reported

The Gyrfalcon interceptor drone, equipped with a 12-caliber shotgun, has successfully passed field tests. The development of JSC "Concern of East Kazakhstan Region" Almaz-Antey " is intended for the destruction of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), RIA Novosti reports with reference to the general designer of the department Pavel Sozinov.

The concern notes that we are talking about the supply of hundreds of thousands of machine guns to the military

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Kalashnikov concern have signed a long-term contract for the supply of AK-12 assault rifles, the corresponding agreement was signed within the framework of the military-technical forum "Army-2021", the press service of the concern told Interfax.

Russia annually sells more than 100 thousand Kalashnikov assault rifles to foreign countries, said the head of Rosoboronexport, Alexander Mikheev.

Rosoboronexport has already signed contracts and even supplied a number of partners with new samples of this legendary machine gun - the AK "two-hundredth" series, as well as the AK-12 and AK - 15," the head of the company said.