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>The old guns will continue serving and will continue getting new barrels etc
The entire reason we are looking into a new rifle is because we're running out of spare parts like barrels for the RK's - They haven't been manufactured since the 90's. Once again, you don't seem to understand that we've been cranking out 7.62x39 since the 60's, we have an absolutely incomprehensible amount of 7.62 in storage, probably in the hundreds of billions. When i served in 2015, the packaging on the ammo said it was from the 70's.