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  1. Some heavy Russian FSB kit from the local CQB field, "Fear City Tactical Arena" Really neat place! It's actually a haunted house attraction in October, and then an airsoft arena in the winter.
  2. This APB is a pre-production model completed by NPO-AEG for Atacka.com, the US-based distributor of the refinished Gletcher GBB Stechkin. If you want to order from the UK, rusmilitary sells the Gletcher guns directly. NPO-AEG will release the APB kit (slide + barrel + silencer + stock) as a kit some time in 2014 (?). To get that you'll have to order through Atacka because as far as I know, Rusmilitary has nothing to do with NPO-AEG.
  3. If you're in the UK Rusmilitary has them in stock along with the Grach (which is sold NBB but can be mod'd to GBB). The Rusmilitary ones are straight from Gletcher so they have the nasty trades. I got mine from Atacka.com which sells the NPO-AEG refinished ones for $350 (218 sterling). Straight Gletcher one at $254 (159 sterling). For US folks the Atacka one makes sense because the shipping is free and you get the bonus of the improved exterior. For UK and EU people, if your pocketbook is making the decision...probably consider Rusmilitary.
  4. It's hard to respond to this one without my personal bias since I've been craving a modern Russian handgun replica since Day 1. Part of me just wants to shout GET IT BECAUSE THEY ARE FINALLY FOR SALE, but I also can understand some people care more about function than looks Both guns have metal slides + frames and plastic grips. Stechkin has the C02 cartridge in the grip and Grach has it in the mag. Haven't tested the metal, but people working on them say that it's pretty soft. NPO-AEG covered up the original bogus Gletcher trade marks and did a nice job of refinishing them. Th
  5. I couldn't find a good place for any of these handguns... Gletcher APS Stechkin - Refinished by NPO AEG Gletcher MP443 Grach - Refinished by NPO AEG Gletcher APS Stechkin - Refinished by NPO AEG + APB kit by NPO AEG
  6. Gletcher APS Stechkin with the NPO-AEG APB kit. The kit replaced the slide + barrel and includes the silencer and wire stock
  7. Wordy title right? I received by Stechkin from Art at Atacka (http://Atacka.com) along with an extra magazine on Tuesday. First impressions: It's big and it's heavy. I've been collaborating with Art on some related projects, so I was clued into the goings on with this particular import. I learned that exporting airsoft guns out of Russia is a hell of a challenge, and it takes time, patience, connections, and money...and that's to do it legally! This replica is a 6mm GBB made by Gletcher and refinished by NPO-AEG. As you can see, NPO-AEG cleaned up the externals and added full trad
  8. Usually I do ok at ID'ing Russian helmets, but this one has me stumped. Can anyone ID the helmet, mount, or rails? This is real, not a replica. The suspension on the inside looks like RBR, but that's all I've got...these aren't my photos and I won't have any additional info for a while. Source is out on a trip.
  9. Please don't hate on Red-Alliance! We're trying to fix the image and be more open. For example, members like adadqgg get infractions and citations from admins and moderators if we can spot abusive or combative posting. We want more people to use the site to share and discuss! I'm a big Russian gear collector, but I still like to see people share images of their own projects. The Russian/AK community isn't about excluding people from getting involved. It should be the opposite
  10. The factory doesn't give the AK-105/104 to the military with a ribbed cover on it. You would have to make that an aesthetic rather than realistic choice.
  11. Just to really drive the point home: When real Russian (and Ukrainian, etc) soldiers are using front-mounted optics by choice, the phony Russian/communist airsofters should probably keep their mouths shut. It's one thing to have an aesthetic preference, but it's another to get dogmatic and assume a bizarre fake persona from a country you don't live in.
  12. Russia has several private companies who have licenses to import certain ITAR accessories. For example, American manufactured PVS-14 can be legally sold to some military personnel through one such company (TsSN makes use of PVS-14 for a lot of teams). With stuff from 2008-present in Russia, guys in tactical teams of the FSB and MVD are buying new gear every day. Some of their sport and competition rifles are totally tricked out as the last photo demonstrates.
  13. Real World 2011 service rifle: This one was from a 2011 competition. I can't see the sleeves to identify the unit, but this is probably a rifle from the TsSN of the FSB. Modifications would be paid for by the soldier using the gun. Purists look away
  14. Do you know anyone in the FSB? MVD? Let me tell you: They like putting accessories on their guns. The only thing keeping more soldiers from having more additions to their firearms is the limitation of their pocketbooks. If you have an aesthetic preference for an airsoft gun without accessories, that is your business. Bladerunner168 never said he wanted to mimic a real Russian firearm.
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