if AKs are so good why do all the arabs and terrorist militants immedaitely switch to ARs when given the choice?

>>63892811 (OP)
the AK was good because it was produced in massive numbers by the USSR, and they allowed everyone with a pulse to make local copies
so if you wanted to arm a ton of people with automatic weapons, then the AK could do that a lot easier than the M16 or any AR-derivative

but the situation today isnt what it was back then
AR-clones are now dime a dozen while the USSR collapsed and china now has a vested interest in playing ball with the rest of the world rather than inciting constant revolutions

Irregular forces use what's most accessible and convenient.

Supply, in the past soviets were the main retards destabilizing the world, now it's the US.

>>63892811 (OP)
War trophy to celebrate and show off your victory.

>>63892811 (OP)
USA started giving ARs to Arab terrorists while in the past it was the USSR giving AKs to the terrorists.

>>63892847
>>63892839
>>63892831
>>63892826
>>63892823
not an answer


in interviews i saw with taliban they complained about the shitty trajectory of 7.62x39 and being outgunned by chad ANA bros using 5.56 who were engaging them at 4 to 500 yds or more while they were stuck trying to rainbow shots watching them fall helplessly short while laserbeam 5.56 was cracking around them

>>63892860
>not an answer
it literally answered your question

ARs are now much easier to get than they used to be while there are fewer AKs than there used to be

>>63892811 (OP)
Grass is greener on the other side.

>>63892811 (OP)
probably because they are newer unused firearms thrown down on the ground at their masters request.

>>63892811 (OP)
Aren't all the AKs floating around from Soviet-era stockpiles? I mean, why wouldn't you trade in a 50 year old AK for a practically brand new M4?

>>63892811 (OP)
>if AKs are so good why do all the arabs and terrorist militants immedaitely switch to ARs when given the choice?

Because weapons are always in short supply for the guerrilla and M16A2s just happened to be what they could loot from the abandoned ANA armory

>>63893159
>Aren't all the AKs floating around from Soviet-era stockpiles?

Norinco still manufactures Type 56s for export. When Germany reunited in 1990, all of East Germany's stocks of MPi-Ks were almost immediately dumped on the open international arms market as part of a wider liquidation of the now-defunct NVA's assets and infrastructure.
Zastava still makes M70s for export and Serbia itself only very recently completed replacing it with the M21 and M19.

>>63892811 (OP)
>if AKs are so good
They were adequate 70 fucking years ago.
The only reason people think they are good is because the soviets had a fucking propaganda department dedicated to hyping it up and boomers slurped that shit up.

>>63893577
>They were adequate 70 fucking years ago.

I mean, they're still pretty adequate if you're fighting a low-intensity bush war with fellow Third Worlders (i.e. the majority of armed conflicts going on right now).

>>63892811 (OP)
They'll ditch them when they get tired of keeping them lubed.

>>63892860
Not an answer

>>63892811 (OP)
The same way you picked up m4 when you were terrorist in counter strike.

>>63892811 (OP)
I know they were a status symbol in HAMAS, because they were rare. You could only get them taken off a jewboy.

>>63892811 (OP)
Cheaper and lighter ammo, don't forget the literal tons of bullets the US slops all over.

>>63893704
always seemed like it was the other way around
CTs would take the AK over the M4 whenever possible because of the one-hit kill through helmets

>>63892811 (OP)
They don't.

>>63893734
I picked up m4 when I was T
I picked up Ak when I was CT

>>63892811 (OP)
Accuracy first a foremost. By now all those AK's barrels from the AKs the U.S.S.R. dumped on ragheads and bantu militias are shoot up to shit, turning minutes of angle into hours of angle.

Not that the quality standards were ever high to begin with, regardless if they were made in the U.S.S.R. or under license somewhere else. Only AKs with some degree of quality manufacture are milled Czech ones.

Now to top it all off, the AK as a platform is atrocious to mount any sort of attachment, because they were conceived as cheap garbage to arm conscripts and insurgents in the millions. If you want to mount something on an AK your options are a side rail, mounting things on the gas block, or resorting to wobbly AK-12 furniture.

Which leaves you with an inaccurate gun that can't be spruced up easily and also jams just as much because the side of the receiver is wide open to the elements for grime to trickle in thanks to how the safety works. The myth that it is a rugged platform that never jams is a vile lie for retards.

That leaves you with its only real appeal. How cheap it is. That at least is true, it's cheap on every sense of the word.

because it's free.

>>63892885
you actually didn't answer his question at all
His question wasn't
>why are we seeing more ARs than AKs in the hands of middle eastern insurgents now rather than 50 years ago
which is what you answered
his question was
>why do insurgents pick ARs over AKs WHEN THEY HAVE THE CHOICE
i.e. why do they actively prefer one weapon system over the other
the nature of the question is entirely different; one is about logistics and availability dictating structural factors, the other is about individual preference and differing features of the weapons.

>>63893756
>AKs
>milled Czech ones
and what was the designation of this milled Czech AK

>>63892823
No, the AK is a good rifle, this is all so tiring.
Out of the box AKs made by decent factories hit about 3.3moa and ARs 2.6-2.7. Basic ass good enough not to be sneered at brands anyway.
I don't hate ARs but I like my wood stock. I can personally attest, in the single stupidest home invasion ever, it was able to shatter the orbital and sinus-dental area in one good crack. I'm not so hot on any AR furniture taking that; but it's uncommon so whatever. (cops laughed tho)
I like clunky triggers. I don't like slap but I solved that in 20 minutes. I don't like the AR trigger one bit, of course out of the box for both.
Impingement is a retarded hill to die on IDC.
I like spike bayonets and I'll fucking carry a knife I guess.
Mass defeats density fuck you.
The sights, to me are faster.
The safety is a god's honest NO, not an argument opposing you.
Magazines seat faster.
The aftermarket is a total Mall Nigger fantasy. Don't do it. Just stop. AKs fail here, your submarine is a shitty airplane.
ARs are just better "in systema".

>>63892860
Buddy... have you ever shot 7.62x39mm? Do you know "drop" to them is just falling out of the sky? That they are not good shooters and that "practice" is flinging bullets with no technique or much aim? That hey guess what, nutritional deficiency your whole life affects vision and muscle stability?

>>63893778
The Vz. 58, the AK to end all AKs

>>63893787
>in the single stupidest home invasion ever
greentext?

Because AR doesn't accept garbage tier ammo

>>63892811 (OP)
They use what they can get. All the ISIS and Taliban mooks got what they looted from Iraqi and ANA armouries.
They don't have the luxury of choice. They'd be using L85s or FAMAS if thats all they had to loot.

>>63893793
Bulgarian. How I wish instead of taking a parts kit and putting it into an "blah" AK I just welded the receiver or bent one. Every bulgarian part is nice even up close.

>>63893818
>playing vidya
>*clank* *ratttle* *swearing*
>BEHOLD! A nigger become stuck en mein window!
>6ft off the ground above the kitchen sink and not very big
>nigger cannot touch ground nor get out of window, head and one arm inside.
At this point I just asked him to leave because it was obviously not working plus fucking gun.
>"FUCKYOIUFAGGOTFUCKIWILLKILLYOU!"
>shoulder, aim, threaten
>"I GOT DIS KINFE!"
Dis butter knife.
>In a nice horse stance step. Into "Falling leaves". Then "the winds go".
Actually I clubbed him in the face.
>wouldyoulookatalltheblood.jpg
>cops show up (called 911 and left speakerphone on)
>make fun of AKs, make fun of criminal, lose one gun for 36 hours
Not sure what happened, they said 99% he's gonna plead out to a low B&E over an assault with a deadly (butter knife). This was 17 years ago. I moved to a semi rural area.

>>63893818
Oh and there was a chunk of skin stuck in the cleaning kit hole but I couldn't keep it.

monkey see monkey do
my favorite example are hamas terrorists with israeli style chamber flags in their ARs

>>63893843
there are better examples than that but i couldn't find them easily enough

>>63893833
>be stuck in a window
>man is aiming a rifle at you
>still pull out knife
based future doctor and lawyer

>>63893865
Well, it was in the sink in front of his free hand. Tactically soaped of course.

>>63893846
Man, fixed carry handle ARs are damn nice
I miss mine

>>63893907
sight riser

>>63892811 (OP)
I've been to Syria, and from experience with Kurdish, Arab and Assyrian militia, it's like a status symbol to them. Everyone and their grandmother can get their hands on an AK in a middle eastern warzone, but the cool guys have more exotic stuff that's harder to get. Their ultimate status symbol is a pistol btw. Any kind of pistol.

>>63893552
Right.

Is there any good estimation on how many AKs used by the Taliban were Russian AK-47s (or 74s) captured the Soviets and their allies during the invasion from rather than export models that were available from China, Yugoslavia, and others?

How much were 7.62 AKs and other weapons were in use by the Soviets during their invasion anyway? Weren't they well into the adoption of 5.45 by that point?

Have to assume a lot of the AKs seen in the third world are from export countries, or from Warsaw Pact countries that were liquidating arsenals (and everything not nailed down) after the 1990's collapse of the USSR.

I would be surprised if Russian made AK varieties were all that common compared to Norincos, WASRs, Romanian, etc.

Because for them it’s a war trophy.

Like when a hunter puts the head of his kills on his living room wall.

>>63892811 (OP)
They use whatever they get. Probably both.

But their AKs are doubtlessly old shit compared to the ARs. One Chinese gun expert told everyone their quality is all over the place even intentionally. If it was decades back and you were making Type 56s for domestic, you could be executed for cheaping out too much. But exports like Africa or the Middle East? You're allowed to cut corners for profit margins. So even if they were using a brand new AK, some countries laugh on their way to the bank.

>>63894815
the overstock of old and cheap AKs isn't a good incentive to make them of better quality

>>63892811 (OP)
Taliban picks up whatever is there after US forces drop them and run. Whatever happened to destroying your gear while retreating to deny it to the enemy? Or Project Eldest Son?

>>63894868
>US gives shit to ANA
>ANA gives up without a fight
>Taliban gets all the stuff
It's really not that hard to understand

>>63892811 (OP)
Albania makes too much money selling AKs to the Mexican Cartels to hand them over to ragheads.

>>63892811 (OP)
Because some beaten to shit AR is probably a more accurate weapon than an AK produced in some artisan sweatshop

>>63894833
True too. For exports to 3rd world countries, nobody cares about anything but selling outdated surplus for maximum profit margins. I have little doubt that a decent Polish or even American made AK shits all over them in quality.

>>63892860
People with zero gun skills can't even aim the AK but with an AR they can eventually sight it in. Plus you don't need a "sight pusher" to adjust the sights. The AK is a gay ass fuck rifle

>>63892811 (OP)
Militias use what ever is most accessible.
Also ARs are better
>>63892860
yeah, no shit, even the russians dumped x39 because it's basically worse .30-30
and yes it's worse .30-30 because at least with .30-30 you can get nice hunting ammo

>>63894924
NTA but I thought they still use 7.62x39, just in smaller capacity these days than 5.45. And India ordered a bunch of 7.62x39 AKs and 7.62x51 rifles. Apparently they do better at their altitudes or something.

>>63894943
the russians only use x39 because they are broke bitches and have a ton of x39 in stock

>>63894951
It eats up cinderblock which is very useful.

>>63892811 (OP)
It’s a status symbol for them

>>63894877
That's not the whole truth, the US also directly left behind their own stuff. Like it or not, he's at least partially right.

>>63894943
>india
You know they aren't a good reference.

>>63893159
the guy in the OP has an A2

>You are the terrorists because we said so

>Now stand down as we terror bomb your people

>if you resist genocide you are a criminal terrorist

Do you really believe yourself? Words are just weapons to you, not a means to communicate what is true.

>>63895030
Why not? They do the needful.

>>63893756
the original gun was designed in 1947, even the updates were made before 1974 when they got the 74s. no shit they were 4 or 5 moa guns that can't take optics. no one was designing their guns around optics except maybe stoner. FALs can't easily accept optics either. Look at all the retarded shit Mini 14 and M1A owners do

>>63895042

Speaking the truth is not allowed here.

They don't want you to think, only to obey.

But if you obey lies then you serve evil against God.

This is the detonation of WTC7, here is the science to prove it.

https://ine.uaf.edu/wtc7

The zionist Jews did 9/11 to justify their wars of genocide in the Middle East.

Read this while you still can because it will be removed for being too true.

>>63892860
>believing sandmonkeys that duct tape optics to their rifles
yeah im sure they are well renowned marksman that understand bullet trajectory

>>63895010
that's what the GPMG is for

>>63895053
But they are! They're so scary with their PKMs and SVDs that we need an XM7 to beat them! This is not a problem that's minor nor do we already have preexisting solutions! Millions must be spent right now!

>>63895071
>>63894951
Russians use 7,62x39 in small numbers because as >>63895018 said, it's a very good at anti-material for an intermediate cartridge. IIRC, in the interview of former Russian/Soviet soldiers Kalashnikov Concern did, one who fought in Mariupol in 2023 said that every squad ought to have 1-2 guys with 7,62x39 because it destroys concrete chunks in a couple of shots where 5,45 requires a whole magazine. He said it was necessary because buildings often had rebars on windows and openings, and those rebars were cast in concrete. 7,62 allowed them to take out those rebars very quickly to create new opportunities for entry. You can hardly do that with a PKM because it's much harder to aim standing and full-auto only.

>>63894951
>x39
How to spot a retard.

>>63895052
>why did the tiny building, next to the two 500,000+ ton buildings that collapsed right next to it, and shower it with tons of falling masonry, collapse?
Why is every conspiracy tard a fucking retard?
The absolute gravest sin isn't that they believe and spew retarded shit; rather it is that they assume everyone is even more stupid than they are. It's like they've never been in a room with an above-room temperature IQ person in their entire life, so they assume absurd fuck-ups just happen all the time and assuming this makes them oh so much more intelligent that non-conspiracy (re: actually intelligent) people.
>whoopsie poopsie! I orchestrated this massive international global conspiracy that would have gone down smooth if only I hadn't blown up the wrong building!
>I am so DUMB lol

Like I don't trust the government or corporations, but I assume they wouldn't blow up two towers but a third building by mistake. My kid brothers scout troop wouldn't have done something that idiotic, so why do they assume a nefarious shadowy group of evildoers with all the resources of the world at their disposal would?
I just don't get any of it.

And they ignore actual shady stuff like Reagan freeing the hostages on Day 1 being followed by Iran-Contra. Or the Russian apartment bombings leading to the Second Chechan War.

>>63893756
>By now all those AK's barrels from the AKs the U.S.S.R. dumped on ragheads and bantu militias are shoot up to shit, turning minutes of angle into hours of angle.
Wrong. You couldn’t shoot out a 7.62x39 barrel even if you tried. It’s a very low pressure cartridge.

>>63895212
post guns, eunuch

>>63895238
Now you

>>63895270
nice airshit you dickless retard

>>63895295
Cope + projection + no timestamp
LOL/10

>>63895305
it's pointing to your fucking post. how could it be an old photo, your fucking post is in the photo

>>63895333
Not a timestamp. I accept your concession.

>>63895355
nta but you need to go back

>>63893771
They're both about logistics you utter retard. You're naturally going to choose the rifle that is easier to get, works well enough, and has easy ammo and parts availability.

>>63895355
there is a timestamp, is says 13:30, retardo

>>63895039
Even a clapped out A2 that has been used by generations of Marines as a shovel is prefferable because it might have seen an armorer more than once in it's lifetime and up until five years ago it was sitting on a rack somewhere. Compare it to the AK that got it's only lubrication ever a decade ago when a goat shat on it and only clearning a day after when it was thrown into a muddy stream so it would stop reeking of goat shit.

>>63892860
Please provide interviews

>>63895220
So what brought down WTC7? It sure looks a demolition. Your post doesn't really address that does it?

>>63893846
That magazine is completely in the way of the ejection port. US M16A1 probably used in vietnam, then gifted to Israel, chopped to 12", used and abused by jew reservists for 40 years and then somehow ends up in the hands of hamas absolutely decked out in jewish accessories and a chinese acog. Poetic

>>63893734
M4 is better as an anti-eco tool, especially if they're expecting the 1tap to the head from the AK anyways.

>>63893846
>>63895860
why would you mount an acog like that? its mounted to a rail that's mounted to the carry handle

the most updated western platform is always better than commie trash

>>63895172
I heard their spec-ops sometimes prefer 7.62x39. I assumed it was for their specific mission needs and wanting more hurt per bullet than 5.45x39.

>>63892811 (OP)
>why do all the arabs and terrorist militants immedaitely switch to ARs when given the choice
Because it's a better rifle, and has a stronger association with power now.

>>63892811 (OP)
Because Joe Biden left them dozens of thousands of AR-15s when he pussied out and had America skip town in the middle of the night.