Sakharov Vjacheslav Sergeevich of Russia has released information on a proposed projectile for a smoothbore rifle.
The proposed bullet comprises the casing with head, caliber and lightweight base parts. The casing has caliber-centering ribs that make aerodynamic guiding elements arranged on the casing head and caliber parts at an angle to its axis and axis of symmetry and represent triangular plates. The plate’s widest part is located at the transition from the casing head part into its caliber part. The plates gradually get narrowed toward the casing base. The casing base center features a tapered cavity, while the base outer surface is furnished with the rectangular grooves.
Sniper Camo
A new sniper suit poncho has been developed by Aero Sekur as part of the company’s work for the Italian Future Soldier program. Providing effective camouflage in the multispectral range, a new fabric used for the suit alters detection capabilities of optoelectronic devices to protect the wearer.
Aero Sekur, an Anglo-Italian company that specializes in the innovative use of flexible materials, reports that the new addition to its portfolio complements its range of safety and camouflage solutions for defense applications.
Designed to prevent detection from night vision glasses during general use, the sniper suit’s application extends to providing shelter during extended night missions. A water-repellent feature integral to the fabric ensures that the suit can be worn in any climatic condition.
VHS Assault Rifle
Vukovic Marko of Hungary has released information on a VHS assault rifle that has integrated devices that allow the fast mounting of various sights and optics. According to information available to SOTECH, the weapon can also be modified to fire various small arms ammunition and can attach fitting for a grenade launcher and even a bayonet slide.
The cocking lever is placed on the upper side of the rifle and automatically closes in the forward position and remains still while the bolt moves forward or backward. According to the designer, the problem of self-cleaning of the bolt chamber has been solved in such a way that, when the bolt gets into the chamber, it turns and, while turning, it pushes all the impurities out through the elongated opening for the cartridge case ejection.
The fire selector is placed within the reach of the index finger used for firing, and without releasing the grip, it is possible to put the rifle on safety with the index finger, switch it to the automatic or single fire position and lower the bolt after changing a frame or a drum. The rifle is equipped with various adapters that can be mounted very quickly with a lock system enabling the use of any type of a magazine.
The cooling of the recoil spring, protected from external influences in the guide, is achieved in such a way that the recoil spring retroactively seals air, which, with the moving of the bolt acts like an air pump, thus cooling the spring, the guide tube and other parts of the rifle. The rifle has been designed with the grip placed in front of the magazine producing a length approximately 300 mm shorter with the same barrel length than other rifles of the same class. Such a design makes the rifle 0.8 to 1 kilogram lighter. ♦