KS-23

The KS-23 is a pump-action shotgun which makes an appearance solely in the campaign of Call of Duty: Black Ops. It is unavailable for use in multiplayer and Zombies.

A harpoon firing modification on the KS-23 which is used to take down a Russian Mi-8 'Hip' Gunship can be found in "Vorkuta". The gun appears very often throughout the campaign as one of the main shotguns of both the SOG and the Red Army.

Trivia
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 * The KS-23 is one of the two shotguns that are exclusive to Black Ops' campaign, the other being the Model 1887.
 * The KS-23 boasts the capability to easily gib enemies.
 * The KS-23's serial number is FS259.
 * The KS-23 originally seems to have been planned for featuring in multiplayer too, as there is a file named "ks23_mp". However, it was removed, most likely for balancing reasons.
 * If shot at a civilian/police car, the car will explode with one shot. This is seen most in "Operation 40".
 * On the Wii version, the KS-23 pick up icon is similar to the SPAS-12 pick up icon.
 * The harpoon can be wielded via "Console commands" giving it two harpoons and no actual reload animation.'
 * The KS-23 was set to appear in the Zombies game mode but was removed. It still remains in the .IWD game files called: ks23_zm and ks23_upgraded_zm.
 * It is the first russian shotgun featured in the series.
 * You can obtain it in Ascension using the give all code and can be Pack-a-Punched.
 * The KS-23 is anachronical, as it was produced in 1970.