Armament and Equipment
Personal firearms and crew served weapons include:
- AK-74M and AKS-74 assault rifles, and AKS-74U special purpose and self-defence carbine (5.45x39mm).
- RPK-74, light weight machinegun (5.45x39mm).
- PKM, general purpose machinegun (7.62x54mm).
- 6P41 "Pecheneg" general purpose machinegun (7.62x54mm), currently replacing PKM as general purpose machinegun throughout the Russian Armed Forces.
- Dragunov SVD, sniper rifle (7.62x54mm).
- Dragunov SVU, modified SVD in bullpup configuration and its variants are in a limited use.
- GP-25 and GP-30, under-barrel 40mm grenade launchers for fragmentation and gas grenades.
- AGS-17 Plamya (Flame), 30mm automatic grenade launcher.
- RPO-A "Shmel" (Bumblebee), infantry rocket flamethrower, or the older RPO "Rys".
- RPG-7 anti-tank rocket launcher, or more modern systems such as the RPG-22.
- 2B14 "Podnos" 82mm mortar or the older M-37M
- 9K38 "Igla" man-portable SAM system, or the more modern 9K338 "Igla-S".
- 9K111 "Fagot" and 9K115 "Metis" man-portable anti-tank systems.
- AN-94 assault rifles
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