NAGANT
 

The Mosin  was the first Russian bolt action rifle to be adapted by the army. Russia had been late to equip its army with modern rifles because of a series rashly made misses in the 19^th century, together with a conservative idea on rifles with the ability to waste ammunition. Different rifles were taken up on try out, to see witch rifle was to be adopted by the army. At the end only two rifles remained, one made by S.I Mosin and the other by the Belgian engineer L. Nagant. After further testing and a series of modifications the Mosin rifle was adapted, but by then the rifle had changed radically and was now more like the Nagant rifle, because of this the rifle is often called “Mosin Nagant” in the West.

Mosin 1891 was the first model to be adapted, and it proved to be a good weapon that could be modernized and it stayed as Russias, and later the Soviet Unions main rifle until the end of World War Two. All of the Mosin models are of caliber 7,62 and have bayonet mounts. There were also sniper versions and carbine versions.

Multiple units of this rifle found its way to Indochina through China.