Since our last video on gun-armed drone both sides have continued to develop the technology. Numerous Ukrainian teams have developed recoilless 'shotgun' drones designed to hunt other drones as well as developing and fielding an AK-armed FPV and a fixed wing gun drone. The Russians too have retur...

The UK’s Royal Marines have confirmed that some units of the UK Commando Force are now equipped with the SIG Sauer MCX.

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3D printing has become a key element in so many aspects of the ongoing war so it was inevitable that it would be leveraged in making this ad-hoc anti-drone ammunition. The 'buckshot' AK rounds we examined in December 2024 have evolved to incorporate 3D printed sabots to hold the shot.

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Development of gun-armed drones is moving rapidly in Ukraine. In this video we're going to take a look at the latest development: a gun-armed fixed wing UAV, the ZigZag from Ukrainian manufacturer Sky Defenders.

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The S8 is an 80mm family of unguided solid-fuel rockets which are typically fired from aircraft such as Mi-8 and Su-25s. This week, however, a video of an improvised launcher developed to be fired from the shoulder emerged, seemingly developed by Russian personnel.

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While the Mk19 40×53 mm automatic grenade launcher has become increasingly ubiquitous in Ukraine, alongside familiar Soviet-era AGLs like the AGS-17, but there are other automatic grenade launchers in use. In this video we'll look at the use of the comparatively rare Heckler & Koch GMG.

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On 23 December 2024 the German government confirmed that 200 Heckler & Koch MG4 5.56x45mm machine guns had been delivered as aid to Ukraine. In this video we'll examine some of the first sightings of the guns and share some of the opinions of the combatants using them.

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On the 27 December, a Ukrainian fundraising charity posted a series of short videos featuring a drone with a pair of gun barrels. The video showed the drone successfully shooting down several Russian drones.

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In this special episode Matt has the privilege of field stripping a Heckler & Koch G11. He strips the rifle down into its major assemblies and then explains how the 'space magic' works!

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This week another image of a very rarely seen shotgun in Ukraine appeared, an M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System. These are magazine-fed, bolt-action US-manufactured shotguns which can be mounted on rifles. In this video we examine the in-country sightings of these shotguns and discuss what rol...

On 13 December it was confirmed that Czech CZ BREN 2 rifles are being assembled in Ukraine with future plans to expand to manufacturing the rifles.

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In an effort to turn the individual soldier's rifle into a weapon capable of countering the enormous drone threat they are facing some Russians are making home-made buckshot which can be fired from their rifle.

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A quick look at an interesting and very simple 3D printed anti-personnel mine currently in use in Ukraine.

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On 7 November, photographs began circulating on Russian telegram channels of North Korea's unusual Type 73 general purpose machine guns said to be in Russia. The appearance of the photographs led to suggestions the weapons are now in Russia service, in this video we investigate if this is the cas...

Earlier this summer, Polish PGN-60 rifle grenades began to appear in the hands of various Ukrainian units. These 68mm fin-stabilised, High-Explosive Anti-Tank (HEAT) grenades have been used by some units to assemble first person view (FPV) kamikaze drones.

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In this video we'll examine the various sightings of Mk14 Enhanced Battle Rifles in Ukraine, some are confirmed to be clones built in-country while others may be actual surplus EBRs transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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The GP-46 was unveiled by Kalasknikov Concern at the Army-2024 exposition in August. Unlike other Russian underbarrel grenade launchers the GP-46 is chambered for Western 40x46mm the low velocity grenades. Kalashnikov say the GP-46 is intended for international export.

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In previous videos we've looked at Ukrainian efforts to manufacture polymer belts for PK-pattern general purpose machine guns. These were developed by Ukrainian company RAROG who has been selling them since the summer of 2022. Now PUFGUN, a Russian company has also developed a polymer PK belt.

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The 2A28 Grom is the main armament of the BMP-1, it is essentially a 73mm recoilless gun, in the last six months there have been a series of sightings of Russian troops testing 2A28s which have been dismounted from vehicles and mounted on craft-made or repurposed carriages for use as infantry sup...

We've previously seen HK416s in use with a variety of Ukrainian units, but since mid-August there began to be sightings of small numbers of other Heckler & Koch rifles - HK G36s and the new HK433. In this video we'll examine which units are using, where they've been sighted and try and get to the...

In this week's video we explore the emerging branch of drone evolution in Ukraine that has seen the development of what I'm calling RPG-FPVs - AKA: Rocket Launcher Drones.

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What is old is new. This week imagery of a Russian drone equipped with a recoilless gun emerged. While tiny in comparison the concept behind the recoilless gun drone dates back over a century to the Davis Gun mounted on World War One aircraft.

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Drone warfare has evolved massively in Ukraine over the past two years and this week saw another evolution. On 4 September, Wild Hornets, a Ukrainian drone manufacturing initiative, shared footage of what they claim is the first use of their gun-armed drone in combat. In this video we explore the...

Since the spring of 2024 there have been an increasing number of sightings of a new Ukrainian 40mm grenade launcher. Seen in both under-barrel and standalone configurations the new launcher is manufactured by UKROP, the same Ukrainian small arms company which manufactures the widely used UAR-10 a...