Vepr

The Vepr (Ukrainian: Вепр, wild boar) was announced in 2003 as the first indigenous Ukrainian assault rifle, designed by the State Space Agency of Ukraine. It is one of several bullpup conversions of the conventional AKM design, along with the Polish Kbk wz. 2005 Jantar, the Chinese Norinco Type 86S, the Russian OTs-14 Groza, the Finnish Valmet M82 and the South African Vektor CR-21. The first Vepr rifle was shown on 28 August 2003, only ten Veprs were made until 9 October 2004. In addition, one test prototype Malyuk (Ukrainian: Малюк, "Baby") was made in 2005. However, since the political ...