Message from @Zeppelin
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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 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
Hello, gents
How's it going?
just fantastic - and you?
Not bad. Just got done eating lunch
Listening to music now
excellent track
https://thinkprogress.org/paypal-proud-boys-antifa-987d619f86b1/
`Members of the Proud Boys have been arrested for the violent attacks, but there’s no evidence of equivalent violence by Antifa organizations.`
That is Fake News right there
thinkprogress = propaganda
and they don't even pretend otherwise
... regarding the AK platform, and the age thereof
didn't we send some spooky folks over to china
to set up factories to churn those things out
for the conflict in afghanistan?
pretty sure I recall this guy bragging that we got the cost down to +- $7 each, no?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gust_Avrakotos
We (US) didnt set up factories, we secured production out of PRC factories
good idea