Those wacky Russians are at it again....

[AmishFury]

If that isn't wild enough for you, here are two designs developed in the 1960s by a designer named G.A. Korobov; a three-barreled bullpup design known only as the "ZB Device", and then a further prototype of that rifle, with a .50-calibre grenade launcher under the 7.62mm barrels, known as the TKB-059; a 50 calibre projectile doesn't leave much room for a payload, but it might be just the thing for Aliens

looks like soemthing out of duke nukem 3d

 

[Geronimo45]

Wow. It's a .50-cal BAR.

You're forgetting, these are the same people that make a full-automatic 10-round SNIPER RIFLE

I think that's for the purpose of avoiding having a guy carry a secondary weapon.

 

[Evil Monkey]

I think that's for the purpose of avoiding having a guy carry a secondary weapon.

DING DING DING DING DING!

Whatever you can do to make the weapon versatile, you do it. Although the ten round mag it uses isn't enough, I believe there have been some development in 18 or 20 rounds mags. I've seen pictures of them somewhere.

 

[younganddumb]

excusse my ignorance and spelling but max are you really from russia if so can you PM me I would really like to visit there one day

Zach

 

[MechAg94]

Is penetrating 20mm of armor all that great for a 50 caliber rifle?

 

[SDC]

It's about the same as for US .50 M2 AP.

 

[Wes Janson]

That looks like a hole for inserting a rod to remove the can.

Whatever, it doesn't make sense. If it is designed to function as a muzzle brake, it would be a highly inefficient muzzle brake, and a highly inefficient suppressor.

On the contrary, it makes a tremendous amount of sense. I've shot several fairly small .50 BMG suppressors/sound moderators, and have to say that it really doesn't make sense not to have one on there. The goal isn't silent assassination, it's making the rifle more effective on the battlefield. While there's still a crack, the muzzle blast is largely elminated, and the sound signature is much less harsh, increasing the flexibility of the rifle in use.

The most important aspect of that rifle as I see it would be the fact that it appears to be a gas piston design, meaning it should be both easier to suppress, and potentially more accurate than the M107.

Whether it's intended to be used for short-to-medium-range interdiction, or something else entirely is difficult to tell. That holo sight on top would seem to suggest it's intended for short range only, but then again as a prototype who knows.

 

[Famaldehide Face]

That .50cal AK is the Soviet Response to the Cobra Assault Cannon from Robocop but in full auto

 

[MD_Willington]

LOL.. Saiga .50 anyone.. LOL

 

[N1150X]

I just having a hard time getting over the guy with no ear protection

 

[alemonkey]

Ear protection is for soft western girlie men.

 

[Avenger]

Um, is that an AR collapsible stock on it?

 

[gvnwst]

what is recoil with this thing like???? looks like a good anti t-rex gun

 

[sarduy]

LOL.. Saiga .50 anyone.. LOL

saiga on esteroids lol....

 

[TehK1w1]

seems like this would be an excellent weapon against light and medium-armored vehicles like Humvees, especially with a larger magazine.

 

[Z-Michigan]

Ear protection is for soft western girlie men.

WHAT? Did you say something???

 

[Ignition Override]

For the modern Russian soldier the Mosin Nagant 44 is now the bb gun.

Dos vedanya Kommandier.

 

[Beagle-zebub]

Certainly interesting, but I think the Kord is more impresive, since it can do just about all the same stuff, while being a combat-tested design feeding from a belt. 12.7mm with a muzzle-brake, though...that thing's gotta be ungodly loud.

Which is all the better, in my book.

 

[VirgilCaine]

Between the PPSh-41, the AK-47, the Saiga, this 4 gauge monstrosity, and a Russian five-shot revolver shotgun I saw, I am forced to conclude that apparently Russian firearms philosophy is, in general, "MORE DAKKA!"

 

[Beagle-zebub]

LOL, Virgil, good one. Wasn't Soviet doctrine concerning the AK-47, in even its oldest and least-controllable forms, that full-auto is the standard mode of fire? I want to say I read that somewhere, but I can't recall where, and I'm too delirious to find it right now.

 

[PTK]

Oh those wacky Russians....

 

[Realbigo]

Yeah the Russkies copied American Camo. They presently use like 15 different kinds. This weapon makes me remember that just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. I doubt its much of a surpressor w/ a 12.7mm round. It might keep the sound down enough that it's harder to locate the source.

 

[Wes Janson]

I doubt its much of a surpressor w/ a 12.7mm round. It might keep the sound down enough that it's harder to locate the source.

You'd be absolutely amazed how much of a difference even a mediocre suppressor can make for a .50 BMG. They're not silent, but it makes them way, way, way more pleasant to shoot.

 

[VirgilCaine]

LOL, Virgil, good one. Wasn't Soviet doctrine concerning the AK-47, in even its oldest and least-controllable forms, that full-auto is the standard mode of fire? I want to say I read that somewhere, but I can't recall where, and I'm too delirious to find it right now.

I remember that, too. It was mentioned to me, IIRC, in the context that the SKS was adopted at a time when Soviet infantry tactics dictated large amounts of full-auto fire, which the SKS obviously cannot provide.

 

[benEzra]

It seems to me that this rifle is ballistically more like an uprated .50 Beowulf than a .50 BMG. Notice the spec'd ammo is armor-piercing incendiary; I suspect they are using some sort of home-grown Raufoss rounds, for which you need the big caliber (a fat bullet is needed to have room for an effective explosive payload).

Loaded with solid bullets, it probably wouldn't penetrate any more than a shotgun slug or a .45-70, but Raufoss-type rounds allow low-velocity rounds to penetrate stuff they ordinarily wouldn't be able to breach.