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>2014
>incorrectly utilizing fragmentary knowledge in hope of impressing strangers on the Internet
Pls stahp.
Perhaps the AK-12, the newest variant.
As for the Mosin, well, the Gewehr 98 was in service since 1898 and the Lee-Enfield since 1895, again, nothing really exclusive to Russians. The OTs-48K (I assume that is the “rifle issued to specialist units” you were talking about) is in very limited use and definitely not by specialist units - it was only meant to be a way to utilize the massive WWII surplus in some way (before they went back to just selling it for pocket money to anyone who still wanted them).
My point was that it isn’t really exclusive to Russians (just look at how everyone was milking the FAL or how HK slapped the roller-delayed bolt and their trademark receiver absolutely everywhere, which resulted in any HK long gun between 1959 and 1997 looking nearly identical).
It stands out mostly just because - while the Soviet politbyro funded the development of a batshit insane number of weapon designs that never passed the prototype phase - they always fell back on the AK as it was the only thing they had that was overall proven and viable for production on the enormous scale warranted by the need to supply the conscript armies of the USSR and set up production in its satellites (a notable exception being Czechoslovakia with its renowned small arms industry).
Faced with any paradigm shift (SCHV ammo, modularity) they just adapted the AK to fit, while the countries that could afford fielding a new platform did just that.
Anyway, are you that TexasUberAlles? You draw really cute Twilight.
Every variant is built around the same core, so it ends up looking similar
That was… kinda my point? AK-47 looks like AKM looks like AKS looks like RPK looks like AK-74 looks like Saiga 12. Being Russian Engineering is part of that, because they have an institutional and cultural mindset running back through the Czarist era of making a thing that works and then not changing it for decades, or even centuries; the Mosin-Nagant was first fielded in the 1890s, and variants are still being issued to specialist units in some places.
His name was Mikhail. Avtomat means ‘automatic weapon’.
Dammit all, I hate cascading cut/paste/undo edit errors. That started out as “every [typoed] Avtomat Kalashnikov”, then something like “everything with Avtomat Kalashnikov in its pedigree” that got changed to “everything made by Izhmash” and then apparently failed to actually get changed to “everything made by Izhmash/Kalashnikov Concern” because they got renamed when they merged with Izhmekh.
It has nothing to do with it being Russian or being designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It’s a weapons platform. Every variant is built around the same core, so it ends up looking similar, just like every AR-15 or every 1911 does. He made a “chassis” that was later adapted for a wide plethora of applications and borrowed from.
>Pretty much everything made by Automat Kalashnikov looks roughly the same
His name was Mikhail. Avtomat means “automatic weapon”.
And I don’t think the PK looks a lot like an AK for that matter.
Everything else he designed is an AK in its core, so your point is kinda moot (prototypes don’t count).
Pretty much everything made by Automat Kalashnikov looks roughly the same, because Russian Engineering has “IF NOT BROKE, NO FIXING” tattooed on the inside of its eyelids; guns are just one of those things that tend to attract the sort of nerd that likes to write term papers about the myriad variations on “roughly the same”. There are actually dozens of variants of the basic AK platform, which is what you’d expect from what is literally the most common firearm in history.
I thought it looked like a Saiga-12.
It’s an airsoft abomination.
A very vague 74u look-alike on a Type 3 receiver.