For today’s Photo Of The Day, we have Armenian snipers preparing for the Sniper Frontier 2022 competition. These pictures are from the military base of the Southern Military District (SMD), and there are more Dragunov sniper rifles than sunshine. Experienced [Read More…]
Many of the firearms developed in post-Soviet republics are extremely obscure with only a few pictures and brief descriptions available at best. There are multiple reasons why: from the secrecy of such projects to their limited production numbers (if they even made it [Read More…]
The outbreak of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the 27 September is not completely surprising; both countries have fought several short and brutal campaigns against one another since the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, this surge of violence looks [Read More…]
The news concerning the establishment of an AK-103 assembly line in Armenia has been reported by several Armenian and Russian sources within the past month, however, there was no official statement. Yesterday, this information was officially confirmed as the Government [Read More…]
A Russian group of companies called “Promishlenniye Technologii” (“Промышленные Технологии”, means “Industrial technologies”) which includes the ORSIS arms factory, as well as the Tula and Ulyanovsk ammunition [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…]
ArmHiTec 2018 arms exhibition was held on March 29-31 in Yerevan, Armenia. There were both local Armenian manufacturers and companies from Russia, China, India and several other countries. In this article, we will take a look at the companies who brought small arms [Read More…]
An Armenian Armed Forces Facebook morale page (not associated with the military) shared photographs in January of what appear to be Armenian Special Operations troops at a training range in the country with precision rifles. Despite attempts to censor the photographs [Read More…]
Aspar Arms, an Armenian company, is chambering two rifles for the .300 BLK (aka .300 AAC BLACKOUT) cartridge: the AS300 and the ASR300. The AS300 is an integrally suppressed AK-style rifle that is adorned with a variety of rails and has an adjustable length stock. The [Read More…]