now this one has got to be one of the ugliest assault rifles ever conceived

>>64024730
The best one

Bonus Czechnology, just in keeping with the theme of full(-ish)-length wooden stocks, we didn't really see a lot of intermediate-caliber rifles with them since they were on their way out right as assault rifles were starting to take off, but they're pretty cool.
I guess the Mini-14 is the only notable one to actually be produced? (and the M1/M2 if you count .30 Carbine as a proto-intermediate cartridge...)

>>64024766
love these transitional-era rifles in which they weren't sure if they should do separate stock and forend yet

this one's not in 7.62x39mm, the magazine also seems maybe a little bit too big to be 7.62x25 Tokarev? anyway it seems like it might be basically the Soviet M1 Carbine of sorts

>>64024910
another one in this style

the choice of rpk vs rpd keeps me up at night I love them both so much

I love this one, it's like a "proper" version of those bubba'd SKSs with Tapco stocks feeding from AK mags

>>64025266
The TKB-022PM superbullpup idea is so promising, I'm annoyed no one else has tried making one in the modern day. Imagine the fucking barrel lengths you could get in a PDW OAL if the barrel started at the stock

man those guys at the soviet design bureaus had to be on some really groovy stuff

>>64024680 (OP)
>botted ziggerboo thread
Was there another "smoking in an oil refinery" incident?

>>64025519
The problem with having a mass issued super-short bullpup for infantry is the dumb-ass grunts shooting barricades in front of them since there's no extended barrel or handguard to prop up against a surface. The Pissraelis found about that with their super short X-95s and are considering replacing them with the IWI Arad.

>>64025889
Fuck off, faggot. Take your Monkeypox-infested ass elsewhere. This thread is about weird-ass soviet small arms prototypes.

>>64025919
tbf you could use such an ultra-short layout but pair it with a longer barrel - the TKB-022 is supposed to only have a 16.3 in barrel (since I assume Korobov just kept the original length of the AK barrel), but imagine this in 5.56 with a 20 in (or some other cartridge that would benefit from even more barrel length), that would get you some more length past the pistol grip

>>64024680 (OP)

>>64025919
A Mk18s OAL is 30 inches with the stock extended, the TKB OAL is 20 inches with a 16 inch barrel. You could have a 20 inch barrel and a 6 inch can for the same length as an unsuppressed Mk18.

>>64025889
Faggots like you deserve worse than death.

>>64026043
Yes, but you have to take into account the fact that Israeli infantryman fight like absolute dumbass malingerers. They're just a little bit above Arab-tier, but nowhere near NATO-tier.

>>64026371
This makes my pp funny.

>>64026113
Awww. What's the matter? Did your daddy never love you?

>>64026387
understandable

>>64024680 (OP)
Here anon, this whole book is filled with pre-kalashnikovs. Enjoy.
https://royallib.com/book/monetchikov_s/istoriya_russkogo_avtomata.html

>>64026751
Same energy.

>>64025266
el atrocidad...

>>64026396
You talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded, reported.

>>64024680 (OP)
There were other guys in that contest the AK won but I find this one more interesting looking.

>>64029094
>>64029409

>>64026751
Never seen this one before, and the TKB designation made me think Korobov - though it is not, but damn does that tickle my fancy.

>>64028981
I love the look of this weapon, but I be changing the mag was a real pita.

>no other baryshev shills on /k/
sad.

those alien bastards are gonna pay for shooting up my ride...

>>64032180
just don't loik 'em
Those chonky receivers with just a barrel coming out look kind of wrong to me, other delayed blowback guns like the HK series and the FAMAS tend to have a rod traveling above the barrel (to act as an interface for the charging handle, and also just add extra mass to the BCG), so they have something on the level of the upper part of the receiver and actually don't look that radically different from gas-operated guns, and older short-recoil guns like the MG30/34/42 tend to have a shorter (in terms of height, it's actually longer horizontally because of this) receiver so they also look fine and proportional in aesthetic terms.

Long guns where all the BCG mass is behind the barrel really need to have symmetrical tubular receivers like this to look good IMO (or rectangular as on the MG42). The first Baryshev is the closest to this and looks mostly alright, although maybe the barrel could be more centered to the handguard as on the StG-45 prototypes

>>64032315
Vahans are neat

>>64031616
it's actually probably not that bad if you're sticking with the proper Soviet manual-of-arms and reloading with your right hand - which is already holding the magazine, so you just have to press mag release (which I think is that serrated button slightly above the mag) and pull it out
(although it'd probably be a bit better to have that button on the left side, so you can just press it with your right thumb)

>>64029558
LMAO the last dude got tired of taking pictures and decided to troll.

If I had my own firearm mfg company, I'd be making stuff like what's in this thread and some the rarer Chinese stuff.

You recon the nazis captured a prototype and based the Stg44 on it? Also the Germans must’ve done a big one on the Soviets for using so much Bakelite

>>64032988
huh?

>>64034053
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>>64029094
I dig that one

>>64028035
Aтpocидйeця

>>64033650

some czechnology again, I've ran out of Soviet stuff

this one's more of an LMG, but still really cool