TangoDown has announced the addition of a new AK grip to their Battlegrip family of pistol grips. The new grip is called BG-AK. As the title of this article implies, this is exactly the same grip as the US PALM AK pistol grip. The latter became an accessory that is [Read More…]
In this video, I give a quick rundown of some of the newer small arms presented by Kalashnikov group at ARMY-2018 expo: AK-200 series, AK-308, AM-17 and AMB-17. For the last three years, “Army” remains to be the biggest and most popular military/small arms exhibition in Russia. With [Read More…]
On September 19, while reporting the Gunsmith’s Day events in Izhevsk, a Russian TV channel showed non-firing prototypes of a modular weapon system designed by the students of Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University. The modular design of the rifle is [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics has designed a new tunable AK gas block. Currently, it is available only as an upgrade option for the company’s production model rifles, however, according to the company officials, they may offer it as a separate part in the foreseeable future. [Read More…]
Russia’s National Guard, the Rosgvardia, has placed orders with Kalashnikov Concern for several hundred of the company’s new AK-200 rifles and AK-205 carbines. The AK-200 and AK-205 are 5.45x39mm variants of the new improved AK-200 series of rifles. The [Read More…]
At the beginning of the current year, Century Arms announced that they started importing Romanian AK-based 9mm pistols called Draco NAK9. JMac Customs, being one of the leading AK accessories making companies, has already designed and prepares to launch three new [Read More…]
OK, this is not the KGB you thought about. In this case, KGB stands for Kraft Gun Builders and KGB LLC is an American company specialized in making AK accessories. Their latest product that has just been released is an AK pistol brace adapter called Stinger47. [Read More…]
In this episode of TFBTV, Jimmy walks you through the Lynx Polish AK-M/AK-47 Pistol. The Lynx AK47 Pistol is a semi auto 7.62×39 AKM Pistol built in Poland by WBP Rogow. These pistols are built with a blend of old school Kalashnikov build techniques and modern machinery. It all starts with a [Read More…]
It was less than a year ago, at SHOT Show 2018 when Wolf Ammunition officially introduced the legendary 9x39mm Soviet/Russian cartridge to the US market. Although it is a really interesting and capable round, there are not too many firearms made in this caliber yet [Read More…]
Currently boosting a force of over 30,000 fighters, the United Wa State Army (UWSA) has always been a force of reckoning on the Burmese border with China. And although arms production among the Wa (northern Shan State) isn’t a new or hot topic (this [Read More…]
Here is your daily Public Service Announcement. Don’t shoot .300blk out of an AK chambered in 7.62x39mm. This was my mistake. Fortunately, nothing bad happened. AK Kabooms do not seem to be a commonplace occurrence compared to AR-15 kabooms. There is this infamous [Read More…]
Bad Element Co has been modifying AK magazines. Cutting windows into the sides of metal mags and various other modifications. Earlier this year he made an OTS-14 Groza Pistol. For those not familiar with the OTS-14 Groza, it is a Russian special forces bullpup typically [Read More…]
In two previous articles on TFB we looked at the Burmese MA-Sniper in-depth while being used in the field by Tatmadaw Infantrymen. If readers recall there were a number of different variants of the MA-Sniper, to include early attempts at modifying MA-2 Light Machine [Read More…]
Today at The Firearm Blog we have exclusive AK-related information for you. Brandon Herrera, also known as The AK Guy, informed us about the release of his first production model AK called AKG-47. Brandon has earlier launched a limited edition commemorative rifle that [Read More…]
Photographs have emerged of a captured Islamic State weapons cache which has an impressive range of firearms. The stockpile of weapons and explosive materials was captured by a rival Syrian group HTS. The cache included a wide variety of pistols, submachine guns, rifle [Read More…]
These days everyone is adding the lightest most tactical handguards to their rifles. People are debating MLOK vs Keymod, what’s the best weapons light to mount to their AK-47 handguard, what’s the best new tacticool do-dad, etc. All the while some dude on [Read More…]
A US Navy destroyer, the USS Jason Dunham, intercepted a skiff in the Gulf of Aden and discovered over 1,000 AK-pattern rifles. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer dispatched search teams to a ‘stateless skiff’ in international waters on 28th August. A US [Read More…]
Artsrun Hovhannisyan, the press secretary of the Ministry of Defence of Armenia, has published on his social media pages a post announcing about a contract signed between the Kalashnikov Concern and an Armenian company called Royalsys Engineering Ltd concerning the [Read More…]
Occam Defense Solutions has introduced a new AK handguard called MERC. This is a patent pending design which is advertised to decrease the heat transfer to the shooter’s hand and provide a solid optics mounting platform for AK family of rifles. Let’s take a [Read More…]
There was a little confusion last week since we rolled the results in with the new BOTW. We listened and split the posts. Drumroll…..And the winner for the second set was Rick’s Rifle Dynamics AK Build with 157 votes (Steve’s Mk 24 Combat Assault [Read More…]
In the early 2000s, after the assault weapon ban was lifted and Kalashnikov rifles started to gain popularity on the US market, a lot of shooters were looking to learn the original Russian way to run an AK. Naturally, very few Russian instructors were available and very [Read More…]
AC-Unity is a firearms and accessories manufacturing company located in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They have recently started exporting new quad stack 60-round 7.62x39mm AK magazines to the USA. This company and its products are mostly unknown to the American gun [Read More…]
Today, Kalashnikov Group (Russia) presented new assault rifle prototype called AK-308 at the International Military-Technical Forum “Army-2018” According to the press release: “Weapon is based on AK-103 with certain design features taken from AK-12 and is [Read More…]
Your enemy is the best teacher when it comes to combat. In a move that appears to be imitating what the Kachin Independence Army pioneered in 2010 when it comes to bullet trap rifle grenades being fired from locally assembled Type 81 derivatives (the Chinese Type 81 [Read More…]
The Twitter analyst Everest65 has shared photographs of some bullpup Kalashnikov experimentation within the arms trade social media groups in Syria. There are a couple of iterations of the design, some appear to be more experimental and might be low in production while [Read More…]
Every field has its own mysteries and mystifications. And if we are talking about the history of Soviet small arms, the biggest puzzle is the notorious AKMSU. If you look it up on Russian gun websites, you can find a lot of fascinating information, for example: The [Read More…]
Xtech Tactical has introduced a new 7.62x39mm 30 round AK magazine called MAG47. The new magazine has a polymer construction with metal reinforced front and rear lugs as well as metal inserts underneath the feed lips providing a metal reinforcement for the feed lips, [Read More…]
Rifle Dynamics has announced about the addition of California compliant AKs to the list of their main products. The company has built multiple custom California compliant AKs before, but now they have these rifle as main production models. Rifle Dynamics calls this [Read More…]
Over the years, conducting trials in different countries, I had countless opportunities to test the accuracy of an AK in multiple calibers. There are a lot of myths and misconceptions regarding AK accuracy, and despite people putting out good information out there, a [Read More…]
Today’s Picture(s) Of The Day are from the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, with the focus on Kalashnikovs in the hands of US soldiers. The top picture is taken by Senior Airman Ryan Conroy and shows U.S. Marines and Airme, as they fire [Read More…]
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