THIS GUN FROM KALASHNIKOV HAS BUILT-IN COMPUTER, WILL TEACH ITS USERS HOW TO SHOOT

Wed 10 February 2021:

The Kalashnikov group, which produces the AK-47 assault rifle, is planning to target hipsters and young people with a gadget-packed shotgun, its director said on Tuesday.

Kalashnikov’s director Dmitry Tarasov said the group had developed a semi-automatic 12-gauge shotgun dubbed the МР-155 Ultima that has a built-in computer and can teach its users how to shoot.

“Classic hunting today is becoming more rare, even outlandish. Therefore, I would like to involve… hipsters, Generation Z,” he said, referring to those born from the mid-1990s onwards.

“I really want people to own weapons responsibly and at the same time get a kick out of it.”

The estimated price of its new high-tech shotgun, which was first presented at a military expo outside Moscow last summer, is 100,000 rubles ($1,348).

It can be adapted with gadgets including a compass and a video camera, Tarasov said.

The Kalashnikov group is Russia’s largest weapons producer and is part of the state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec.

The group says it manufactures some 95 percent of “all Russian small arms.”

Mass shootings in Russia are relatively rare.

In the last high-profile case, a teenage gunman in October 2018 killed 20 at his college in Moscow-annexed Crimea.

Last month a young army recruit was sentenced to over 24 years in prison for shooting dead eight servicemen, in a trial that spotlighted hazing in the army.