Weapons

New Multi-Caliber Weapon System called KONEV Modular Rifle

Konstantin Konev is a firearms and accessories designer. He contacted me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I want to take a look at his rifle design. I was curious to see what he is talking about because I never heard about that rifle before. I was anticipating to see something like another AR or AK based rifleand it was really surprising to see an actual new firearm design with a lot of interesting features. And that is the subject of this article – the Konev Modular Rifle. Let’s take a look at different design features of this rifle.

Konev’s rifle is designed to be a modular platform. It can relatively quickly change the calibers, magazinewells and barrel lengths to match the needs of any particular task. In order to do a caliber and magazinechange, the user needs to change the magazine well, bolt head and barrel. The lower receiver is made of glass reinforced polymer and has a two-piece design with a separate magazine well portion.