Incoming: Exciting New Airsoft Releases in 2025
🎉Happy New Year Airsofters! 🎉We wish you all the best for 2025 and hope to continue to serve you well in the coming year!
With that said, let's cast our eyes on the horizon and check out some sneak peeks of what Airsoft has in store for 2025!
1. WELL PRO Minigun Compact
2024 brought us a lot of new Minigun replicas from WELL PRO, but the best is yet to come! The most skirmishable WE23 variant, the Compact is due for release very soon and like its bigger brothers, is ready to let rip at an astonishing 36 rounds per second!
The Compact version (known as the WE23-Mini) is equipped with a PDW-style sliding stock, pistol grip and M-LOK handguard, giving it handling qualities not too dissimilar to a standard assault rifle. The handguard sports M-LOK negative space attachment slots, ready for your mission essentials and the set even includes a micro grip-pod style vertical foregrip, ideal for laying down some serious firepower from a concealed prone position!
Feeding from the WE23 standard 1200rnd autowinding magazine and fitted out with mission-ready features such as a 20mm Picatinny railed receiver and several sling points, this is the 2025 new release for the skirmisher who wants to truly dominate the battlefield and isn't ashamed to achieve victory through superior firepower! As soon as we have this beast in stock, expect to see videos of us destroying things with it on our YouTube and Instagram!
2. WELL PRO Minigun Tracer Unit
If you're running a WELL PRO WE23 minigun, the only thing that can make it better is the upcoming WELL PRO Minigun Tracer Unit! A design optimised for the WE23 series and fashioned similarly to real-world minigun flash hiders, this tracer unit is the perfect match for any of the WELL PRO WE23 series, allowing you to light up the night with glowing BBs at an extreme rate of fire!
Similarly to other muzzle flash tracers currently on the market, the Minigun Tracer Unit offers realistic muzzle flash in a variety of colours, from red and orange to pink, green and even blue! For those sneaky minigun wielders, the unit can also be used in "tracer only" mode, meaning only your BBs light up to avoid giving your position away.
If you're attending night games or dusk games and you're rocking a WE23, we expect you'll be well up for making your BBs glow like angry fireflies. Stay tuned to our new products page to grab your Minigun Tracer Unit when it drops in the next couple of months!
3. EMG CYMA Platinum Strike Industries Raider M4/AR-15 AEG series
The EMG CYMA Platinum partnership has brought us some of the most realistic, well-built and straight-shooting real steel AR replicas ever seen in 2024 and in 2025 this is set to continue! First up is the Strike Industries Raider series, stylish high-end AR-15 rifles popular amongst civilian tactical and competitive shooters in the USA and sure to be a hit with Airsofters who like aggressive, modern styling!
The Raider series covers all sizes of AR, from the ultra-compact Raider PDW through the slightly longer Raider CQB with the Raider SBR and Raider Carbine for those who prefer a mid-length AR setup. These are AEGs with the same superb CYMA Platinum internals found in the EMG Daniel Defense RIII and MK18 series with the EShooter Kestrel V2 Basic pre-installed, offering superb electrical efficiency, programmable fire controls and a host of quality-of-life features to keep the platform running at its best in the long term.
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Available with a range of exciting metallic colour accents or in full tactical black, the AEGs of the Raider series come equipped with a detailed replica of the Oppressor Universal Blast Shield up front, a "Strike Rail" handguard with licenced trademarks, a Strike Industries MOD1 Stock or PDW stock at the rear and Strike Industries enhanced fire controls, giving you handling as slick as these ARs look!
4. PTS ZEV OZ9 Elite GBB Pistol
The real steel ZEV Technologies OZ9 is a cutting-edge Glock-based handgun with enhanced ergonomics and a no-frills, means business look, replicated authentically with the PTS Airsoft version. Boasting an aluminium alloy slide and outer barrel with a rock-solid polymer frame, the OZ9 is one of the best-looking Glockalikes we've come across yet. Glock owners; this is the sidearm she tells you not to worry about!
Boasting an 11mm CW female threaded outer barrel, optics-ready RMR cut slide and 20mm Picatinny frame rail, the OZ9 Elite is ready to be run as a primary pistol decked out to the nines with accessories, or used as it comes, depending on the mission requirements. Licenced ZEV Tech trademarks are present across the design along with front slide serrations and an enhanced frame with an extended beavertail and trigger guard undercuts, ensuring you get the best handling possible, especially if you stay attuned to the latest shooting techniques used in the real world.
Included with the OZ9 Elite is PTS' first GBB pistol magazine, known as the S.A.M (Side Arm Magazine). This mag is built like we would expect a PTS mag; solid as a rock and made to last. The baseplate is designed to absorb shock similarly to existing PTS Shock Plates, ensuring if you drop a mag mid-game it has the best chance of surviving. Inside the OZ9 we are treated to enhanced cold-resistant rubber parts from T8 Systems made from 60-degree rubber, a 6.03mm tightbore inner barrel, a steel valve knocker and a steel hammer, along with an uprated nozzle spring for a super-snappy cyclic rate. Make no mistake, this is set to be one of the best GBB pistols of 2025!
5. CYMA Platinum AK series with EShooter Kestrel V3
It has been a while since CYMA dropped an AK but like busses, we expect these all to arrive at once! Based on CYMA's already fantastic CM.04x AK series, the latest versions feature the EShooter Kestrel V3 ETU/MOSFET, allowing you to program your trigger for different fire modes, adjust pre-cocking and trigger sensitivity while benefitting from cycle control and electrical efficiency improvements.
The first due to drop is the CM.113 series, available in 3 different external build options, all bristling with superb quality Zenitco-style furniture. The CM.113 is an AK-103 style replica equipped with a hinged B33-style 20mm Picatinny railed top cover, ultra-aggressive DTK-3 style muzzle brake, RK-3 style grip, PT-1 style stock and a B30 style handguard paired with a B31 upper handguard.
The CM.113A is also a full-length design but supplied with a 5.45 style mag, replicating the AK-74M. This beast has a detailed Zenit-style PT-3 telescopic stock with the sleek and slim "Sport" handguard and a B33-style railed top cover and RK-3 grip. The shortest of the bunch, the CM.113B replicates the AKS-74U, squashing all that Zenit goodness into a compact package with the beastly DTK-2 muzzle brake up front and the B-18 rear sight rail to facilitate optics mounting.
All this talk about AKs, but where is the wood? If you're the type of AK fan who loves the classic look and the feel of steel and wood in your hands, no need to feel left out! CYMA's classic AK configurations are also set to return in Kestrel-equipped form, known as the CM.05x series. These replicas cover the classic AKM, AK-74, AKS-74 and AKS-74U, perfect for your opfor or retro Soviet loadout. If you want to learn more about the CM.05x series, check out our article showing them off!
This isn't all, either! We're also expecting Rifle Dynamics AK replicas from CYMA; built to the same superb standard with official licencing from EMG. These should be in our hands within the next few months and if they're anything like the EMG/CYMA SLR AK replicas they will be incredible shooters!
There you have it! Stay tuned to the Patrol Base Blog for more intel on future releases; when we know something, we will let you know!
If you've seen something you like here, make sure you keep eyes on our new products page, ready for the drop. From all of us here at Patrol Base, good hunting in 2025!