Original source: http://www.foxnews.c...place-famed-ak/

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The Russian Defense Minister stated in a private meeting that Russia should consider replacing their Kalashnikovs and SVDs with foreign made/produced small arms.

 

This is probably an old story, but the first I'm hearing/reading about it. I find it slightly amusing as I could imagine the argument taking place in their meetings would sound a lot like this forum's "AK vs. AR" threads

And interesting enough, some of the comments made public do sound a lot like some of the comments made in the past regarding this topic.

 

I'm not an AK guy, and don't have throngs of information that would support one argument or another... so, ultimately, I don't have an opinion one way or another. Should be interesting to see how Russia goes about this debate though.

 

ETA: Fixed the link

Hah, morally outdated. I guess it looks too mean or something

Hah, morally outdated. I guess it looks too mean or something

 

 

the problem is simple.. it kills too good..

I'm sorry but this article really sounds to me like big BS. Something along the lines he said she said and my aunt Sarah heard it while waking in the park. those guys who are in charge of Russian DOD are bunch of thieves, no doubt. But I really hope that even they wudnt dare to kill Russian small arms industry that exist since the days of Peter the Great. Russian military have several approved assault rifle designs that offer significant improvements over current One which us based on ak-74 (I dont know y they are talking about ak-47 which is only in very limited use with MVD nowadays ) . The issue is that Russia doesn't have the cash to buy those new designs. So the only reason they Wud want to buy , let's say French FAMAS, is to steal more money. European arms industries are famous for buying the military contracts. And Galil is more accurate than a regular AK? By wat percentile ? I think the minister of defense Shud worry more about obsolete air force, navy, air defense, tanks, apcs and on and on and on. Basically the whole damn army and leave the only reliable piece of equipment alone.

PS of course I'm generalizing but overall I think that's the truth.

I could care less what small arms Russians are using. There are better small arms out there than the AK but since the gun is so damn cheap and reliable why switch?

An AK 74 costs what, 500 bucks for a good one? Compare that to any American or European assualt weapon which costs 4 times that. Let's see, 4 guns to 1? Yeah, AK makes sense.

I could care less what small arms Russians are using.

 

So you do still have some small iota of concern in that cold black heart of yours?