I’m a history major, so historical weaponry interests me.

M1s by then were upgraded to M2s but yes they were used by MAC-V and MAC-V supplied RoVA units

@Khanclansith If you don’t mind my asking, where did you serve while in the Army?

I was a headquarters monkey out at Shafter for 3 and half years, and I was in HHBN 10th Mountain Division.

Got it.

Even after the AK-74 (5.45X39mm) was in service, the AKM was still used until the late 80s, if I remember correctly.

In 1986, the AKS-74U carbine was made and was used by Russian tank crews and paratroopers and is still used today.

AKMs never completely left service, They were in the last lines of mobilization and remain so to this day in the Soviet sucessor states.

Well, I figured that I was wrong.

It is hard to translate Soviet moblization orders to US and NATO counterparts because everything was put in the MOs.

I bet.

The Security Guards at the Car Battery Manufaturing Plant were part of the Red Army's MO

Do you know when the Dragunov SVD was put into service? Wasn't it around 1976?

Not off the top of my head

1963 I was aproved for service in the Red Army http://modernfirearms.net/en/sniper-rifles/standart-caliber-rifles/russia-standart-caliber-rifles/dragunov-svd-eng/ Source is sometime off but has access to Russian archives being a local near there

Back in 1958 the requirements were published by the Red Army for what would become the SVD

I see...

The Soviets realized as soon as they gave everyone a carbine that they lost an important "Reach out and Touch Some A-hole" capacity that intermediate rounds just lack.

I mean I've been to some backwater companies during my service, but the most use I've seen AKMs have is during oath swearing

Pretty sure everything remotely related to combat uses newer models

Hell, even as comms, we had 74s

Yeah, like I said, the Soviet MOs were far outside what Western militaries did.

Still are
At least here in the big country

I am doubtful that any "Regular Army" member (draft or pro) has handled an AK-47 to AK-49/2 in decades.

49/2s were still handled in 1998 in some conscript companies

But back then you could drive a tank corps from Helsinki to St. Pete's without much opposition

I would have thought those were AKMs, but I am not russian so i will take your word

Wait, may have been AKMs

Will have to double-check

Milled or Stamped receivers

Stamped if I'm not completely crazy

stamped were the AKMs

Yeah, my bad

ak receiver is a piece of thick sheet metal, folded and drilled
or, if mass-produced, stamped

what does everyone think of bumpstocks?

pretty remarkable what some nutjob can do with a bumpstock, really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mXe9dk77bk&t=30

Hello, gents

How's it going?

just fantastic - and you?

Not bad. Just got done eating lunch