Posted on 12/27/2001 8:43:17 AM PST by g'nad
SUPERGUN INVENTED IN TULA
The instrument-making design bureau of Tula produced a new item – GSh-18 gun, developed by engineer-in-chief, Arkady Shipunov and his first deputy, Vasily Gryazev. The title of the gun reflects the initial characters of its creators and the amount of cartridges to it.
GSh-18 weighs 580 grams when loaded, while the majority of other guns of that class rarely weigh less than 1 kilo. The body and components of the gun are made of the modern lasting materials. A bullet shot from GSh-18 will go through 8 millimeter steel, if you shoot from 12 meters distance – no flak jacket will save from this weapon.
Many specialists of the weapon industry fear, least the super-gun should not be accepted for the armoury. There was even better weapon invented in the cities of Tula and Izhevsk, but the army and the defense complex are used to Kalashnikov, which is 50 years old already. The customer - the Principal missile and artillery directorate of the Defense Ministry does not give any perspectives for the weapon either: GSh-18 is meant for the professional army, but there is no such army in Russia so far.
Translated by Dmitry Sudakov
I'd like to see some caliber and ballistics info...what kind of projectile are they using? 8 mm(.8 cm), I ain't that impressed...
2. It is simply not a believeable claim. If they said they had invented a new round of some kind, and that this gun is strong enought to fire it, that would be one thing. However the gun itself is not what would be super about that, it is the round.
The .223 is only 5.56-mm, and it will penetrate body armor just fine.
That's what I thought. Wonder if they offer the $40 rebate as well?
a.) velocity of 2900+ fps... a pistol cartridge is no where near that
b.)a fully jacketed sharply pointed projectile...pistol cartidges, especially in semi-autos have rounded projectiles to feed properly
Apples and oranges, friend...
Ditto!
We don't really know what kind of cartridge it uses, do we? All the evidence would seem to indicate it does not use a conventional pistol cartridge. That's why they are writing an article about it.
http://www.milparade.com/catalog/pdf/137.pdf
It might also be better if police were able to change ammo in case of heavily armored bank robbers instead of running to gun shops for more firepower.
Anything is an improvement over the current flaks... but I haven't seen these "Ranger Vests"...
 
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