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Month: November 2016

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VSS Vintorez

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U.S made Soviet VSS Vintorez suppressed rifle An article featured on TFB told the story of an American father and son trying to build one of the unicorns of the firearms world: the Russian VSS Vintorex. This is quite significant due to the fact that these fully automatic and integrally suppressed rifles, developed by TSNIITOCHMASH (Central Scientific – Research Institute for Precision Machine Engineering) and manufactured by Tula Arsenal never found their way into the US. The rifle fires a 9×39 cartridge with a subsonic 250gr projectile that was developed…

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Indonesia: PT Pindad SS2-V7 Subsonic

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On June 9th, 2016 the state-owned Indonesian defense company PT Pindad launched four new small arms systems. Included was a new rifle named the SS2-V7 Subsonic. This new rifle is based on the standard issue SS2 which was introduced to the Indonesian military in 2006. The SS2 is an entirely Indonesian designed weapon and was developed to replace the SS1 which was a licensed copy of the Belgian FN-FNC. The SS2 uses a gas piston design similar to the Kalashnikov. Pindad SS2 The SS2-V7 Subsonic appears to have a much…

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