Malyuk
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The Malyuk (, lit. "Baby") or Vulcan is a bullpup assault rifle developed by the Ukrainian arms company Interproinvest (IPI).
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Malyuk
- Weapon.image
- Vulkan assault rifle, Kyiv 2021, 02.jpg
- Weapon.image_size
- 300
- Weapon.caption
- Malyuk on display at the 2021 'Zbroya ta Bezpeka' military fair
- Weapon.origin
- Ukraine
- Weapon.type
- Bullpup assault rifle
- Weapon.is_ranged
- Yes
- Weapon.service
- 2017–present
- Weapon.wars
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Weapon.designer
- Interproinvest (IPI)
- Weapon.manufacturer
- Krasyliv Assembly Manufacturing Plant
- Weapon.production_date
- 2015–present
- Weapon.cartridge
- 5.45×39mm 7.62×39mm 5.56×45mm NATO
- Weapon.rate
- 660 rounds/min
- Weapon.range
- 500 m
- Weapon.feed
- 10/30/45 round detachable box magazine
- Weapon.sights
- Iron sights and Picatinny rail, others as required by end user.
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- Variants
- Deployment
- Ukraine
- International
- Users
- Incidents
- References
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The Malyuk (, lit. "Baby") or Vulcan is a bullpup assault rifle developed by the Ukrainian arms company Interproinvest (IPI).
==History== According to IPI Vice CEO Serhiy Luhovskyy, development of the Malyuk started in 2005. The development was based on a contract placed by the Security Service of Ukraine with prototype rifles provided before inquiries were made by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence in 2008.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Malyuk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.