Estonia is armed with American rifles caliber 5,56 and 7,62-mm

Estonian army changes rifle weapon, the delivery of American automatic rifles will begin at the beginning of 2020 of the year. About it reports the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic.

The Estonian Ministry of Defense has signed a contract with the American company Lewis Machine & Tool Company (LMT), according to which the Estonian army will receive 16 thousand automatic rifles in 5,56 and 7,62 mm calibers within two years. The contract value is $ 75 million, deliveries will begin in early 2020.

It should be noted that currently in the Estonian army there are very different small arms in service: Israeli automatic rifles Galil and Negev light machine guns chambered for 5,56 x 45 mm, obtained from Norway and Germany from the presence of automatic rifles chambered for 7,62х51 mm GXNXXX3 and G3XXXXXXUMX and G3XXXXX from Sweden - Ak 4 (same G4). There are a number of new German 3-mm automatic rifles G5,56 and MGGNUMX light machine guns.

In order to replace small arms, the Estonian Ministry of Defense announced a tender in 2017, in which the American company Lewis Machine & Tool Company (LMT) won in December 2018, which will supply the Estonian army with MLCPS automatic rifles (chambered for NATO 5,56 x 45 mm) and CQBMWS (chambered for NATO 7,62 x 51 mm).

Rifles are variations of the widely-used AR family of the Stoner construction, but with a patented upper part of the receiver, made of a single monolithic aluminum construction, which ensures its increased rigidity.

The Scout Battalion (Scoutspataljon) of the 1 Infantry Brigade of the Estonian Army, stationed in Tapa (now armed with the Israeli Galil, received in the early 90), will be the first to receive new rifles. The rifles will then be fully equipped with the 1 and 2 infantry brigades. It is planned to equip Kaysteylit (people's militia), police, border guards and units of the Estonian Ministry of Justice with weapons.

Comments

[kventinasd]

the Estonian army will receive 16 thousand automatic rifles of 5,56 and 7,62 mm caliber within two years.

Not too much for the Estonian "army"?

[The black]

Well everything .. now "and from the taiga to the British seas, the Estonian army is the strongest of all"

[Aaron Zawi]

And what do you know about its size, armament, reserve and the tasks cut to it by the NATO command?

[tihonmarine]

Two infantry brigades from the 5 battalions are about 5 thousand bayonets. Kiteselite (security self-defense units) about 2 thousand, border guard and police. In reserve, all who have served. (Now they row up everyone on an urgent row, almost three years ago they didn’t take it). Well, just at 16 you can get thousands. I think the old stuff will also not be allowed on needles, it will lie in warehouses. So with the world on a thread and the Americans will not have to fight.

[kventinasd]

Quote: tihonmarine

So with the world on a thread and the Americans will not have to fight.

Correctly. Merikashki at home will die.

[vladcub]

Actually, Gallil or G-3 "machines" are serious to go straight into the oven. I would not be surprised if these or other "trunks" instead of a warehouse end up in the hands of different groups.

[tihonmarine]

They will not throw in the oven, they will transfer to the Kaiteselite.

[tihonmarine]

I don’t need to go to the library, fellow countryman Andres, because I have been living in Estonia since 1967, more than you, and I know perfectly well what “Kaitselit” and “Omokayt” and “Forest Brothers” are and what they did. So there is no need to justify them, After the Second World War, the court put everything in its place.

[Amateur]

Katz offers to give up

?

[Horse, people and soul]

Not too much for the Estonian "army"?

Half of the Kaitseliites will be broken when they are drunk. The other half scouts (scouts) drown in the sea.

14 scouts and the harsh sea

On September 11, 1997, the biggest loss of the Defense Forces (Estonia) happened - during the crossing in Kurks, 14 soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon drowned. It was expected that in good weather it would be possible to wade the sea in an hour, but the waves rose, the soldiers lost their course in a storm, and 14 out of 22 people did not get ashore after five hours in cold water.

Heino Kreintal, the captain and chief of the port, saw people in the water, who, together with his son, went out into the stormy sea and in a small boat that accommodated only six people, took ten soldiers. Eight of them survived.

-----

Sea, Karl! Wade, Karl! In an hour, Karl!

Not heroes ...

[Catfish]

No shit to yourself! Fourteen scouts drowned in a puddle! We have recently killed the same number of sailors, but is it possible to compare the conditions of their death !? And these are going to fight with us? So talk after that about the "mentality" of the two neighboring peoples.

[tihonmarine]

Yes, all such cases happen, yes God accept them, I remember that tragedy.

[Ee-mae bee]

Oh, remember ...

[rocket757]

For the Yankees, it is, loyal amenities.
Let them, there is nothing to write about!

[Terenin]

Estonia is armed with American rifles caliber 5,56 and 7,62-mm

Well, why aren’t they satisfied with the Israeli Galil automatic rifles? What is the difference with which rifles in Estonia to protect warehouses with flour .

[The black]

Quote: Terenin

Well, why aren’t they satisfied with the Israeli Galil automatic rifles?

Maybe they are satisfied, but the Americans - no ... Estonians are their vassals and all purchases are made only with the permission of the owner ......

[tihonmarine]

"Galil" were purchased at the dawn of Estonia by Prime Minister Mart Laar, there was a big scandal, the Israelis handed the Estohi all the junk without spare parts, so these rifles are now only for "Defense League" and the shepherds.

[Horse, people and soul]

Jews and Soviet howitzers without gun locks (trophies of the six-day war) were then sold to Estonians at the price of expensive scrap metal.

[tihonmarine]

I don’t know how about howitzers, but they have only one division of different-barrel artillery. But the Dutchman sold his old armored personnel carriers, they look good, and then my son’s classmate came from Tapa, he served there, he says that the Dutch took all the electronics from them, and now the driver sees nothing and can’t use weapons. The Estonians demanded that they be returned, to which the Dutch offered them to buy for the same money as the armored personnel carriers cost.

[Horse, people and soul]

"The whole world is with us" - the Ukrainians are the same.

[tihonmarine]

At estohs, too, all the worlds!

[novel66]

they are looking for miracle weapons to fight for them, the Israeli cannot do this, there a trained soldier should be

[Terenin]

Quote: novel xnumx

they are looking for miracle weapons to fight for them, the Israeli cannot do this, there a trained soldier should be

Roma Israel’s neighbors there (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt), mentally, differ from Estonia’s neighbors (Latvia and Russia). If they were to change their places (Estonia and Israel), then in two months Estonian military physical standards would be passed 60 times faster , and at the same time would be glad that they are still alive .

[novel66]

Estonian faster ??? kidding chtoli ???

[Terenin]

Quote: novel xnumx

Estonian faster ??? kidding chtoli ???

You dare to doubt their speed ??? Jokes are bad with them!

[tihonmarine]

Rather, the Estonians would have surrendered to the Arabs in two months. Jews are great warriors.

[Horse, people and soul]

In the harsh Estonian hands of Galilah, they shoot crookedly and require circumcision.

[tihonmarine]

Crooked, not crooked, but "forest brothers" until 1956 ran through the forests and swamps of Estonia.

[rayruav]

in the photo, the blond jouzi was hardly found, and even that is probably a Slav, well, and people, we are all yeast, the Estonian sniper is a strong-willed person in the spirit of Amer’s fighters

[san4es]

Quote: rayruav

... Estonian sniper strong-willed face in the spirit of amerskih militants

This one remembered how with a wedge M-21 he fired nowhere (from 3.15 min)

[tihonmarine]

No, you are not right, they are all whitish or ash-colored, but that was 15 years ago, and now "tse Europe" all aunts are painted in a dark color, I myself was surprised at first. But but the appearance is not going anywhere.

[Horse, people and soul]

Especially the shot that plays in a pocket jacket and plays pocket billiards and drinks a free longdrink from an aluminum can.

[Yrec]

More than 4,5 thousand dollars apiece, on average. It's not cheap to be a pad .

[tihonmarine]

Well, yes, for such a loot they are sucking in, so you can only envy.

[APASUS]

I envy the Americans simply with the white envy of Modernizing the M-16 since 1962 and constantly rending its replicas to the vassals, not many can.

[Terenin]

Quote: APASUS

I envy the Americans simply with the white envy of Modernizing the M-16 since 1962 and constantly rending its replicas to the vassals, not many can.

I would not be surprised if they put immigrants from the Baltic states on modernization.

[Catfish]

Come on ... where are they, homespun. Kalash has been modernized since the 47th year and successfully introduced all over the world. So here the Americans "did not discover America," and the elephant ... well, then it is clear who is "for the first time and regardless of." So there is nothing to envy, let them envy themselves.

[Horse, people and soul]

After Armalight’s patent is sour, AR-15 doesn’t just do a lazy gunsmith. Not only Colt, in general ...

This is a commercial rifle, not an M-16.

[Horse, people and soul]

This MLCPS relative of the AR-15 does not fire auto-fire. This is a semi-automatic carbine.

Shooting assault rifles for Estonia is too fast.

https://lmtdefense.com/firearms/mlcps

[tihonmarine]

Shooting assault rifles for Estonia is too fast.

More likely too expensive, and already on excise taxes excluded twice as much Latvia. Read a bottle of vodka with 10 Euros, and then new screwdrivers for 75 lemons, you will have to brew moonshine,

[Horse, people and soul]

Now they are going to reduce excise taxes by 25%.

[tihonmarine]

Uh-huh, today the bastard "Nemiroff" came into the store for 100 g, the cheapest (the cheapest) cost 2,09 EUR, today 1,89 EUR, so the minuscule was dropped.

[Horse, people and soul]

Well, Duc, 100 grams is just one eye drop!

Look at the 1 liter "Absolute" and "Gray Goose" price.

[tihonmarine]

Why think, for 100 Mr. 20 cents, and per liter 2 Eureka.

[tihonmarine]

It was 20 euros, it became 18 euros, it’s still expensive, I’ll go buy sugar at 0,5 euros for a kilo and moonshine.

[Ravil_Asnafovich]

The Estonian army is about 6500 bayonets, plus a reserve of about 60000 will not be enough, but what if the war? They will take turns to shoot, a joke.

[tihonmarine]

The reserve is not more than 10 thousand. Five years ago, the military consisted of two battalions, so what reserve? Village people are transferred to Kaitselit instead of reserve

[kventinasd]

Quote: Ravil_Asnafovich

what if war?

Then Estonia will not be taken into account at all.

[Horse, people and soul]

The calculation (sober) that 3/4 just scatter.

[evgic]

With such a zoo in the rifleman they certainly will defeat everyone, yeah. Here are the donkeys))

[Saboteur Holuy]

The rifle is good, for remote combat just right ... and I like how oddly English, convenient for expeditions ...

[san4es]

Quote: Diversant Holuy

The rifle is good ....

Which one? .. M-21? Great rifle, albeit half a century old. Only, after all, it is sometimes necessary to clean it, as well as cartridges with a magazine (from sand), so that this does not happen:

... not strange English

She comes from the USA.

[Catfish]

Share what you like there. And what, and for which expeditions is it convenient? And if it is so convenient, why the British special forces, for raids on the rear of the Iraqis, changed their rifle to the American M-4, which itself was never particularly reliable. The wrong expedition was that right?

[tihonmarine]

Probably an expedition to the North Pole, and a rifle to shoot back from polar bears.

[Catfish]

They may shoot from the whites, and the "red" bears will definitely devour them, especially if the rifles are English.

[tihonmarine]

Looking at why at the Pole, if you look at the Red Flag, then please, but if for other purposes you will have to meet with a grenade.

[Piramidon]

The first new rifles will receive the Scout battalion

Will they arm the pioneers and play "lightning"?

[novel66]

yeah, for the elimination ..

[Catfish]

yeah, for the elimination ..

Kicking, Roman.
War game for "Knocking out the scout", no claims.

[novel66]

a well-knocked out scout will not make a claim, shoot more precisely !!

[Catfish]

Because they are not accepted, there will be no one to present them. )))

[TTX]

The German "Schmeisers" are most suitable for the Balts, they famously used them in punitive operations on the territory of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland .. Even the SS were surprised at their cruelty ..

[Piramidon]

Quote: ttx

The German "Schmeisers" are most suitable for the Balts, they famously used them in punitive operations on the territory of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland .. Even the SS were surprised at their cruelty ..

By "Schmeisser" you probably mean the MP38 / 40 submachine gun developed by Heinrich Vollmer?

The Germans did not trust them with machine guns (submachine guns). We lacked it. This cattle was armed with carbines

[TTX]

Quote: Piramidon

The Germans did not trust them with machine guns (submachine guns). We lacked it. This cattle was armed with carbines

Policemen were armed with carabiners and marauders .. But the punishers were supplied with the highest rank .. It was not in vain that more than half of our losses in the Second World War were civilians in occupied territories .. This is a fact and on the wiki

[Piramidon]

Quote: ttx

Policemen were armed with carbines.

Do not believe feature films where everyone was armed with submachine guns. The main small arms of the Wehrmacht soldiers was the Mauser 98k carbine (Kurz - “short”), officially adopted in 1935. Like our Red Army, not PPSh and PPS (shown in the films), but the Mosin rifle of the 1891-30 model.

[dvina71]

Quote: Piramidon

Do not believe feature films where everyone was armed with submachine guns.

Well .. if only the MP and MG were in the Wehrmacht, our infantry’s life would be easier .. 200m range of fire .., and get to such a distance .. soon a miracle ... So what .. without Mosinka that without Mauser at the time, no way ..

[Catfish]

Quite rightly remarked colleague.
But comrade Winnie the Pooh talks about the "marauders" from the police and about the punishers, armed to the teeth with "shmeisers", and scorching them indiscriminately in all directions. Is it worth wasting time on persuasion, then?

[bistrov.]

Quote: Piramidon

Like our Red Army, not PPSh and PPS (shown in the films), but the Mosin rifle of the 1891-30 model.

Already in 1944, the armament of the RKKA rifle units consisted of approximately 50% of Mosin rifles and carbines and 50% of submachine guns.
Soviet submachine guns were better in quality than the German ones, for example, from the PPSh it was possible to fire a single aimed shot at a distance of 300 meters, which was approaching in the distance of a direct shot from Mosin carbine (400 meters), while from MP-38/40 such the shot could be made only at 120 meters. Effective automatic fire from PPSh up to 200 meters, from MP-38/40 no more than 70 meters.

[TTX]

Quote: Piramidon

Quote: ttx

Policemen were armed with carbines.

Do not believe feature films where everyone was armed with submachine guns. The main small arms of the Wehrmacht soldiers was the Mauser 98k carbine (Kurz - “short”), officially adopted in 1935. Like our Red Army, not PPSh and PPS (shown in the films), but the Mosin rifle of the 1891-30 model.

I didn’t watch movies thinly, but documentary ones ... you can’t destroy so many millions of myrrhs with rifles .. They still had flamethrowers (also tell me the rarity?)
Here from this song the blood does not boil at the genetic level ..?

And I will hold my teeth together, especially from what’s going on in Kiev ..

[Piramidon]

Quote: ttx

They still had flamethrowers there (also say rarity?

Did I write something about flamethrowers, tanks, planes, artillery, V-1/2 missiles ...? No need to overshoot my comments. It was only about small arms. Read carefully.

[tihonmarine]

Esta where you write were not. They were in the Leningrad, Novgorod and Pskov regions where they distinguished themselves by cruelty, then Czechoslovakia.

[vladcub]

Quote: tihonmarine

The reserve is not more than 10 thousand. Five years ago, the military consisted of two battalions, so what reserve? Village people are transferred to Kaitselit instead of reserve

Now I looked at Vika: the armed forces -6400, a reserve of 60+ nationalists, it may well be several thousand fanatics. So 000 trunks and Galliles from the warehouses will be in business