POTD: VSS Vintorez and RPG-7 in Slavic Brotherhood 2020
Welcome back to Photo Of The Day, daily articles run by The Firearm Blog since 2014. To our knowledge, this is the most well-known place on the Internet for photos of firearms and soldiers. Fairly recently we had a look at the Slavic Brotherhood 2019 Exercise, now it’s time for a look at the participants in the “Slavic Brotherhood 2020”. In the event, there were 250 paratroopers from Russia and Belarus that practiced together.
You can see both the RPG-7 Rocket-launcher and the VSS Vintorez, which is a suppressed rifle chambered in 9x39mm with heavy subsonic loads. The Vintorez is made by Tula Arms and uses a long-stroke gas piston, which runs above the barrel. It can also fire armor-piercing rounds made out of hardened steel or tungsten.
For more spectacular photos of the RPG-7 check out the: Shooting the RPG-7.
All photos by Russian Ministry of Defense MIL.ru
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Don't paratroopers use RPG-16?
Just a reminder that there is a company called Slagga that is working to make a US made AS VAL and SR3M.