TKB-059 (ТКБ-059) was a
Soviet
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three-barrel
bullpup
A bullpup firearm is one with its firing grip located in front of the breech of the weapon, instead of behind it. This creates a weapon with a shorter overall length for a given barrel length, and one that is often lighter, more compact, conce ...
assault rifle, capable of fully automatic fire, chambered for the
7.62×39mm
The 7.62×39mm (aka 7.62 Soviet, formerly .30 Russian Short) round is a rimless bottlenecked intermediate cartridge of Soviet origin. The cartridge is widely used due to the worldwide proliferation of Russian SKS and AK-47 pattern rifles, as ...
round and manufactured by
Tula Arms Plant
Imperial Tula Arms Plant (russian: Императорский Тульский оружейный завод, Imperatorskiy Tulsky Oruzheiny Zavod) is a Russian weapons manufacturer founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia in 1712 in Tula, Tula Oblast a ...
in 1966. It was based on the Pribor 3B (Прибор 3Б), an earlier experimental assault rifle with three barrels.
Both weapons were developed by the
small arms
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The first firearms originated in 10th-century China, when bamboo tubes ...
designer G. A. Korobov.
Both weapons used a tripled 7.62×39mm magazine with a capacity of 45 rounds, with each barrel independently fed from the magazine. The TKB-059 can be fired ambidextrously as the cartridge ejection is downwards behind the magazine area.
TKB-059 can now be seen at the
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arms museum.
Тульский Государственный Музей Оружия
item 83 in that list
See also
* 80.002
The 80.002 was a combined assault rifle and grenade launcher prototype based on the AK-74. The weapon was developed at TsNIITochMash by Yu.V. Minaev, V.I. Chelikin, and G.A. Yanov between 1975 and 1979. The main difference from the Kalashnikov ...
* AO-46
* AO-63
* TKB-408
The TKB-408 Korobov was a bullpup assault rifle prototype by Soviet designer German A. Korobov presented in 1946. The TKB-408 was submitted to a set of official trials conducted in 1946 to select an assault rifle for the Red Army. The Soviet Arm ...
* TKB-517
* TKB-0146
The TKB-0146 (russian: ТКБ-0146) is a bullpup assault rifle prototype designed by Igor Yakovlevich Stechkin at the TsKIB SOO. The gun participated in the Russian Army's Project Abakan assault rifle trials.
Nikonov's AS and Stechkin's design we ...
* List of bullpup firearms
The following is a list of firearms designed in a bullpup (i.e., action behind firecontrol/trigger group) configuration.
References
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Bullpup firearms
A bullpup firearm is one with its fir ...
* List of assault rifles
An assault rifle is a rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge, a detachable magazine, and can switch between semi-automatic/ fully automatic fire. Assault rifles are currently the standard service rifles in most modern armies. Some rifles lis ...
References
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Photo of Pribor 3B
7.62×39mm assault rifles
Bullpup rifles
Multiple-barrel firearms
Trial and research firearms of the Soviet Union
Assault rifles of the Soviet Union
Tula Arms Plant products
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