The interior Ministry ordered the development of a new machine gun for fighting in urban environments. Weapon received the name “Cord-5,45,” works on its creation are estimated at 25 million rubles. Experts note that the concept of a police machine gun for the interior Ministry reminds the Belgian FN Minimi, standing armed in some States, including in the United States.
Do not make a hole in the wall
The Ministry of internal Affairs, NGO “Special equipment and communication” has announced a competition to develop a new machine-gun automaton (intermediate) cartridge 5. 45×39 mm — relevant information is available on the procurement website. The cost of development work under the code “Turner-2 will amount to more than 25 million rubles. The weapon received the name of 5.45-mm assault gun manual with a combined power “Cord-5,45,” or — abbreviated — “Cord-5,45”. The Executive order will presumably become the Factory of a name of V. A. Degtyarev in Kovrov. Prototypes of the weapon should be presented at the end of 2016.
The brief, assault machine gun is created to work in urban environments and closed spaces, to create a high density of fire with the support of the assault groups or the actions of the machine gunner in the composition of the group to give it extra firepower”.
Rate of fire “of the Cord-5,45” — 800-900 rounds per minute, to power he will be able to use the tape, the standard stores for the AK-74 machine guns RPK-74 (respectively 30 and 45 rounds), as well as specially designed stores for 60 rounds. The gun will come with interchangeable barrels with a length of 900 and 750 mm, folding stock with adjustable length and height. Also the weapon will be equipped with a so-called Picatinny rail for installation of additional equipment — optical, collimator and night sights.
As the expert on small arms Maxim Popenker, the main reason for the creation of “Cord-5,45” — excess for the city’s special operations power rifle cartridge 7,62x54r, which is used in the PKM machine guns and “Pecheneg”. “We need a highly mobile melee tool that is capable of high density fire during operations in the city and the storming of buildings, not endangering those who are behind the walls,” says Popenker. — All of the PCM or “Pecheneg” can have perforated interior ceiling panel in the house”. By the way, in nomenclature of ammunition 5. 45×39 ammunition is with lowered ricochet ability bullet with a lead core, specially designed for law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Fighter of the Russian army with a machine gun “Pecheneg”
Photo: Vitaly ANEC / RIA Novosti
Today on the Russian army and Ministry of interior has a Kalashnikov machine gun by machine-gun cartridge 5.45 mm, RPK-74, but the small magazine capacity is 45 rounds and the inability to quick change the barrel to limit its firepower. The designers tried (and trying) to create for RPK-74 high-capacity magazines — for example, drum-type, but the samples do not provide adequate reliability at least none of them are not commercially produced. Finally, according to the experts, light machine guns on base machines, our RPK-74, L86A1 British, Austrian Steyr AUG LMG — inevitably lose firepower the machine guns developed from scratch, as the Belgian FN Minimi chambered for 5.56 NATO.
Why MIA your Minimi
The Respondents “Tape.<url>” experts say that the concept of “Cord-5,45” reminiscent of the popular Belgian machine gun. Compact FN Minimi effective at distances of up to 600-800 meters, has the combined power tape plus stores, comes with interchangeable barrels of different lengths and equipped with a folding stock. This weapon mass-produced since the early 1980-ies and is in service in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and other countries. In addition, “explanations” were Minimi machine gun developed by the Israeli Negev and the South Korean Daewoo K3.
A soldier of the 3rd battalion of the Royal regiment of Scotland in Iraq with a machine gun Minimi
Photo: Heathcliff O’malley / AP
“Belgian” has established itself as the weapon that can provide a very high density of the fire is short-circuited. At the same time the experience of fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq has shown the disadvantages Minimi: at distances of 500 meters, he could not provide a reliable defeat of the enemy and lost a machine gun under rifle cartridge is the same PCM used by militants.
“Developing promising models of weapons, to rely on the basic characteristics of the weapons, which is more than three decades, in my opinion, incorrectly” — shared doubt an expert on small arms, the chief editor of the magazine “Kalashnikov” Mikhail Degtyarev. He also noted that a number of items TTZ for “Corda-5,45” raises questions: “Maybe I’m arguing semantics, but to use such a weapon indoors is unreasonable from all points of view. There does not need heavy sized machine gun with a ribbon on 100 rounds of ammunition, there is a much better show themselves, any automatic weapon with much smaller mass-dimensional characteristics”.
However, the same FN Minimi is actively used as a police weapon worldwide. He is armed American special forces police SWAT, the intervention Group of the gendarmerie Nationale GIGN of France, used police units Luxembourg, Brazil, Turkey and other countries. And the special forces of the German Federal police GSG 9, for example, armed with a machine gun HK21 under the powerful cartridge 7,62×51 NATO.
German soldiers from the Israeli machine gun “Negev”
Photo: David Silverman / Reuters
The other dispute, according to Degtyareva, the time — feasibility of a complete set of gun barrels of different lengths. “It trudnoudaljaemye advantage, which in practice becomes a burden, — says the chief editor of “Kalashnikov”. — Ballistics two shafts of different lengths uniquely different. The question arises of bringing weapons to a normal battle — I am sure that in TTZ not included a clause stating that the STP (the average point of impact — approx. “Of the tape.<url>”) two trunks should be the same when mounted on the receiver optic sight”.
Sad experience of the past
However, the main concerns of the expert associated with the possibility of comprehensive and objective testing of the new weapon: “I am extremely concerned about the it initiative of the MIA for one reason: in our country today there is no independent test base, on which would be a full test of any sample of small arms”. After all, as the experience of past years, the high qualification of the developer and the manufacturer does not guarantee that weapons will not be accepted raw from the point of view of reliability and dependability of the sample.
On the conscience of the Ministry of interior about a dozen not-too-successful models adopted for service in the 1990-ies and is now “scrap metal lying in warehouses and arsenals”. A striking example — folding submachine gun PP-90, was developed by the Tula Instrument design Bureau on the instructions of the interior Ministry. It is believed that the prototype for it was the American submachine gun ARES FMG company. In the “stowed” position, the PP-90 was formed in a canister the size of a little more of the videotape, in the firing position was cited for three or four seconds. Bad ergonomics, long for a sudden ambush cast in a fighting position and low reliability has led to the fact that a large part of folding submachine guns lying in warehouses. A similar fate befell several samples of handguns, including a revolver Stechkin-Abraham RAMI, pistols OTS-21 “Malysh” and “Drill” and some models of police shotguns.
Even quite valid samples — sniper complex VSK-94 and submachine gun PP-2000 — brought to mind after came to the test in the army.
