The Download Munkey : Tracking the Treasure Down …

Read about this Heckler & Koch MP5 lookalike from The Firearm Blog. The GSG-5 series outwardly resemble their Heckler & Koch counterparts, namely the MP5, the MP5K and the MP5SD, but are chambered for the .22 LR HV. The Heckler & Koch MP5, of course needs no introduction, being one of the most recognisable post-WWII submachine gun designs in the world today.

© German Sports Guns

The manufacturers, German Sports Guns, aren’t the first to build Heckler & Koch replicas though – Red Rock Arms BW5s, Special Weapons SWA5s and Vector Arms V53s being three good examples.

Photos © American Tactical Imports

GSG-5P Pistol

Photos © American Tactical Imports

GSG-5PK Pistol

The official website of the American importer for the GSG-5, American Tactical Imports, has the obligatory technical specifications in PDF format for the three models of this semi-automatic firearm as well as a link to their Flickr account where you can view high-resoltuion promotional photos of their products as well as assorted marketing paraphernalia like this eyecatching poster of a lady wielding dual GSG-5PKs (just like in computer games ).

Photos © American Tactical Imports

German Sports Guns has a similiar ad for the GSG-5 (below) with the model holding the weapon in a more plausible and tactically more sensible stance

© German Sports Guns

More information at American Tactical Imports and German Sports Guns. (Info for the SD version of the GSG-5 which comes with a faux suppressor to mimic the MP5SD series is currently only available at the German Sports Guns website.)

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A selection of concepts from Isotx’s fascinating Iron Grip universe as seen in their RTS-FPS offering Iron Grip : Warlord. This richly detailed steampunk-ish universe specially created for Isotx’s Iron Grip series of games draws so many constrasting influences from the past, present and future that it’s incredibly diffcult to pigeonhole the world of Iron Grip as being defined by any single time period.

Below are just some of the combat scenes featured on the offcial Iron Grip : Warlord website.

© Isotx, Inc

There’s a Herran Legion General of the invading Fahrong Army in Napoleonic dress (complete with the trademark bicorne hat) and scale armour (!) on horseback leading a line of the dreaded Herrad Legionnaires in gasmasks and armed with WWII bazoookas.

© Isotx, Inc

Armour of the elite Herrad Legion is distinctively WWI (also note Prussian-style spiked pickelhaube helmet) together with the inclusion of kneepads and the occassional ancient/medieval helmet – note 11th century Italo-Norman helmet influence (inset).

© Isotx, Inc

Confederate troops with WWII-vintage bolt-action rifles and a S54 Scarab which looks suspiciously like a British Daimler Dingo armoured car (right) on the advance supported by a trio of the spiderlike steam-powered walker tanks aka Arachs in the background. The above artwork by Slawomir Maniak.

© Isotx, Inc

Concept art for the Confederate S75 “Ontos” tank by Keith Thompson. More concepts of the vehicles of Iron Grip at his personal website (yep, the same awesome Keith Thompson I wrote about some one and a half year back after a tipoff by the mysterious e)

© Isotx, Inc

The varied arsenal of the Atelian militia (the faction that you play as in Iron Grip : Warlord) – there’re revolvers and assault rifles, a Praetorian heavy machine gun (top left) which resembles a man-portable Browning M1917 machinegun and even an antiquated Gamonov Autofiring Handgun not unlike one of those early firearms (a flintlock possibly?) modified to load from a magazine.

© Isotx, Inc

A motley militia of poorly-armed and equipped Atelians illustrated by Slawomir Maniak. Of special interest is the foremost character (probably an Atelian warlord because of his better equipment) wearing a helmet partially inspired by that worn by a Roman murmillo gladiator (either that or the morion of a Spanish conquistador).

Check out more fantastic artwork from the official Iron Grip : Warlord website, devinatART, grab the wallpapers or explore the world of Iron Grip. There’s also a demo for Iron Grip : Warlord – more on that in the near future.

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The latest edition of Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier Portfolio for 2009 once again demonstrates the technological superiority of the US Army over its counterparts worldwide. Of course, warfighting requires more than just dependence on high technology but it doesn’t hurt to gain every ounce of advantage over your opponents, does it

© Program Executive Office Soldier, US Army

330+ pages showcasing the latest weapons and equipment used by US Army soldiers and aircrew – from mundane but important items like combat uniforms to sensors and lasers to protective gear like body armour, helmets and ballistic eyewear for added survivability.

© Program Executive Office Soldier, US Army

Ballistic face protection for US Army aircrew.

© Program Executive Office Soldier, US Army

While increasing soldiers’ lethality and surivability is definitely worthwhile, it’s also something that few countries can afford on an army-wide basis. The above page puts the cost of fully equipping a modern US Army soldier at 17,242(!) USD each as opposed to slightly under 2,000 USD thirty years back.

© Program Executive Office Soldier, US Army

Gear like AN/PPS-26 Sense Through The Wall (STTW) allow US Army soldiers to detect and locate personnel behind walls at standoff range.

© Program Executive Office Soldier, US Army

New infantry weapons introduced include the 7.62mm M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System (SASS) which replaced the aging M24 SWS earlier this year and a new Lightweight Low-Recoil .50 Caliber Machine Gun (lightweight in Army terms is anything but ) currently undergoing trials.

© Program Executive Office Soldier, US Army

Download Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier Portfolio 2009. (Click on the image at the bottom of the left sidebar)

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A comprehensive list of specifications and photos of the prototype and production firearms designed by Lt. Gen Mikhail Kalashnikov. This site is actually an official online conversion of a MilParade printed publication, the Kalashnikov Arms Catalog edited by Alexei Nedelin but I have no idea where this book can be bought – the old order page can be found here.

Other than his world famous AKs and light machineguns, lesser known prototype submachine guns and pistols designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov like his first SMG design in 1942 are featured as shown below(image taken from cruffler.com)

A selection of foreign AK variants are showcased, including an interesting Hungarian variant – the AMP-69 assault rifle which can be equipped to fire 40mm anti-tank or anti-personnel muzzle-fired grenades.

Download the Kalashnikov Arms Catalog, a 1.6 MB zipped file of HTML pages. (had to point to my backup copy as the original link at milparade.ru as indexed by The Online Books page is currently down.)

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Inokatsu AEG Promotional Pics
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No prizes for guessing the target demographics for Inokatsu‘s promotional pictures for their range of AEGs (electrically-powered Airsoft firearms). Two of the SFW pictures below.

© Inokatsu International

Pointless promotional pictures aside, Inokatsu does manufacture a number of authentic Airsoft replicas of modern firearms like the AK series and a range of LMGs in current service with the US armed forces – M60s, M240B, etc. Some of the more “product-oriented” promotional pictures below.

© Inokatsu International

The AKs.

© Inokatsu International

The complete series of product photos and pictures can be found at Inokatsu’s official site.

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