anti-materiel rifles

A Review of Iran’s Defense Industries Organization (DIO) Latest Products: Part Two

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 In this second part of our series looking at the Iranian Defense Industries Organization (DIO)’s current offerings we will examine AR-15 pattern rifles, precision rifles, and machine guns. In the first part of this series we examined the origins of Persian and Iranian small arms manufacturing and explored some of the DIO’s submachine guns and rifle offerings.

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Albanians fighting in Syria: Xhemati Alban in 2020 – Part 3

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This article will focus on the weapons shown in the propaganda of Xhemati Alban in 2020. It is part of a four part series. The introduction and the first part can be found here and the second part here.

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Azeri Machine Guns and Anti-Materiel Rifles from 2015

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This post first appeared on The Firearm Blog as “Developments from Azerbaijan”.

At the recent IDEF Istanbul exhibition held this past May, Azerbaijan had some interesting developments of various small arms on display. Interestingly there wasn’t any demonstration of their service rifle, the Tavor (similarly, it appears most of the military still has 74s while the Tavor is making its appearance in parades).

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