VHS assault rifle tests
Updated: January 9th, 2013
This video shows the relatively new Croatian VHS assault rifle being tested. It does not show anything extraordinary, but I had not before seen close-up video of it being fired so I thought it was worth blogging.
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[ Many thanks to Pavao for emailing me the video. ]
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If your soldiers can’t take the ‘kick’ of a .223 weapon then you’re up shit creek without a paddle.
It's not about "being able to take it", but getting the sights back on target faster after a shot. Less recoil is always better. Even .22lr target pistols have recoil buffers for this reason.
Guys, one advice :there are other articles about VHS, more updated with photos and explanations in this same site.
Please, pay them a visit and don't make statements about a rifle only on the basis of a single video.
In every case , I've consulted european patents about VHS, they are on web so you can retreive it also, so can gave you some reliable data:
Operating System is neither DGI nor long strike piston, but "modernized tappet" like on SCAR (+ a soot deposit chamber inside the front sight).
Confusion arised because there was another precedent prototipe that used DGI plus "gas-cushion" (the tavor looking one), fortunately It was immediatelygiven to Croatian SF and war veteran to test and they rejected it completely.
There is a fundamental reason for FAMAS looking: SF operatives (that are actually ecquipped with G36) asked one single thing: not a bulge, not a lever or nail that protrudes from weapons body. Famas design guarantees that, so take it and be happy.
Instead of gas cushion, there is a mechnical buffer recoil in buttstock (Ultimax style) plus a forced air cooling system (Pecheneg style)
Well, there is a fondamental reason for that uncool carring handle:
PLACE FOR SIX RAILS + iron sight+ integral grenade launcher aims+ integral rifle grenade aims, enought?.
Rails are infact an integral part of VHS (that means multipourpose croatian gun) project and croatian grunts will have a lot of things to attach there, as in the optic of NATO policy of specialized production, Croatia decided to concentrate itself of individual ecquipment and humanitarian (post war) demining.