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7/6/2025, 7:59:43 AM
>>714650019
The AK is fine if you're a developing nation. Its construction is meant to be simple, inexpensive and easy to maintain.
Any country with real infrastructure and logistics doesn't need an AK. That's why every serious military on Earth is just going the gas piston AR route. Even China is just adopting an HK416 clone to replace thier bullpups. If you're not straining for money and you can generally trust the people doing maintenance and supply lines and shit, there's zero reason to pick an AK over short stroke gas pistons.
Later developments in the AK family were designed to keep up with the M16 family. The AK-74 is the most obvious, adopting an intermediate cartridge, but later descendants like the AK-12 are showing the limits of budget rifles trying to work in the weight class of highly modular rifles, as seen with the state of the ones being retrieved from Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
The AK is fine if you're a developing nation. Its construction is meant to be simple, inexpensive and easy to maintain.
Any country with real infrastructure and logistics doesn't need an AK. That's why every serious military on Earth is just going the gas piston AR route. Even China is just adopting an HK416 clone to replace thier bullpups. If you're not straining for money and you can generally trust the people doing maintenance and supply lines and shit, there's zero reason to pick an AK over short stroke gas pistons.
Later developments in the AK family were designed to keep up with the M16 family. The AK-74 is the most obvious, adopting an intermediate cartridge, but later descendants like the AK-12 are showing the limits of budget rifles trying to work in the weight class of highly modular rifles, as seen with the state of the ones being retrieved from Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
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