Small arms news

The Russian Typhoon-AIRBORNE amphibious armored vehicle, which is being prepared for delivery to the Russian army, has received an upgraded combat module with a 30 mm cannon, which has a unique range of destruction for its class of weapons, Igor Zarakhovich, the chief designer of the company developing this machine, Remdiesel JSC, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

In the Moscow region, at the Alabino training ground, servicemen of the Taman Motorized Rifle Division of the Guards Tank Red Banner Army of the Western Military District (ZVO) worked out actions to destroy low-flying air targets from 12.7-mm large-caliber machine guns "Cord".

At the 10th International Exhibition of Weapons and Military Equipment MILEX-2021, held last week in Minsk, several modifications of the Kaiman armored vehicles created at the 140th repair plant were presented.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law raising the age of purchase of hunting and firearms smoothbore long-barreled self-defense weapons from 18 to 21 years. The document also introduces additional grounds for refusing to issue licenses for the purchase of weapons.

Vologda Optical and Mechanical Plant (VOMZ) will fulfill the contract by the end of 2021 and provide the Kalashnikov concern with a batch of updated collimator sights, the press service of the Shvabe holding, which includes the enterprise, reports.

Last Saturday, a parade of militia Forces was held at a military base in Diyala province in Iraq in honor of the seventh anniversary of their formation.

The solemn event involved samples of towed artillery - 152-mm D-20 howitzers, 130-mm M-46 guns, as well as numerous multiple launch rocket systems: both homemade and delivered by Iran 122-mm Raad-24.

The use of an uninhabited 57-mm AU-220M combat module on the BMP-3 significantly increases the safety of the crew and landing troops, and also makes it more comfortable for people to stay behind the armor.

The internal layout of such a modernized infantry fighting vehicle is demonstrated in a video dedicated to the anniversary of the Nizhny Novgorod Central Research Institute "Burevestnik".

The American edition compared the SVD with the latest Russian sniper rifles.

Reviewer of the publication 19fortyfive.com Peter Suchiu (also writing for The National Interest) compared the SVD with the latest models of sniper rifles, which should be replaced.

At the MILEX-2021 exhibition held in Minsk, a new development of the Belarusian defense industry - the Hunter reconnaissance and strike aviation complex was presented.

It is reported that the created unmanned helicopter can search for and destroy armored vehicles and manpower in the conditions of counteraction provided by the enemy.

The ADS is built according to the "bull-pop" layout principle, which provides a shorter length of the machine, better balancing, and also eliminates the need for folding and folding the butt The

holding "High-precision Complexes" (part of the Rostec State Corporation) has started mass production of the latest two-medium automatic ADS.

Soldiers of the elite Preobrazhensky regiment have been sent to Venezuela for a parade dedicated to the Independence Day of this country, the Western Military District said on Wednesday.

At a recent military parade in Zambia, Russian-made Tiger armored vehicles were demonstrated for the first time.

They differ from the already familiar models with reinforced weapons. In the rotating armored turret with an open top, the Vladimirov heavy machine gun, currently considered one of the most powerful in the world, is installed.

The US Missile Defense Agency has presented an animation with the detection, tracking and interception of a planning hypersonic block of an enemy missile, The Drive reports.

The video diary of innovations of the forum “Army 2021 " is a series of video broadcasts about innovative products of the most advanced enterprises of the military-industrial complex. The broadcasts will be held from August 23 to 27, 2021, during the Army-2021 forum, and are aimed at the heads of the main enterprises and the command of the Ministry of Defense.

Adding another round to the RPG-7B2 grenade launcher is unlikely to pose a threat to the M1 Abrams. The National Interest talks about the possible failure of Russia's plan to destroy American tanks.

The new generation of RPG-7 grenade launcher ammunition will not allow the M1 Abrams to leave the battlefield. RIA Novosti tells about the creation of a "killer" of American tanks in Russia.

Tsniitochmash has developed the PCM 75 collimator sight with unique accuracy and energy consumption characteristics. The device has passed preliminary tests and will be presented at the Army-2021 forum.

Tsniitochmash of Rostec State Corporation has developed a new collimator sight PKM 75 with unique characteristics of accuracy and energy consumption.

An inventor from Moscow, Alexander Kuznetsov, created a project of weapons based on new physical principles. The development was called-a universal, inertia-free, automatic rifle complex of continuous destruction-the "SCAT"machine gun.

Russia is developing a new generation of ammunition designed for the RPG-7 grenade launcher. They are created by the NPO "Basalt", which is part of the concern "Techmash"of the State Corporation Rostec.

According to RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the design bureau "Basalt" Nikolai Sereda, the first such ammunition is expected in 2-3 years.