New Russian AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifle successor of the old AK-47 for next few years 0504123
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Military Defense Industry Technology - AK-12 Kalashnikov |
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| Thursday, April 5, 2012, 10:19 AM | |||
| New Russian AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifle the successor of the old AK-47 for the next few years. | |||
The
new AK-12
Kalashnikov assault rifle, which was unveiled in Russia in
the middle of February 2012, meets the requirements of Russian customers.
Furthermore, the new rifle has good chances to succeed on the foreign
market, the designers of the legendary weapon say. According to them,
the new Kalashnikov proves that the maker of the rifle has changed its
line of conduct and started listening to complaints. |
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The
12th Kalashnikov, Izhmash officials said, has a number of features that
make it different from the previous series of the rifle. The AK-12
may therefore become the basic model for future developments. |
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The
new AK-12
has caused quite a commotion in Russia. Defense officials
noted earlier that the new rifle did not differ much from the modifications
of the AK-47. Therefore, the new rifle will have the same drawbacks which
the prototype had. Officials with the Russian Defense Ministry stated
that they were not going to order anything from Izhmash in 2012. The ministry
described the requirements to small arms in 2010, but received nothing
in return. Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin stated, though, that American specialists had acknowledged the advantages of the Russian rifle. Interior Ministry officials also said that they were satisfied with the new Kalashnikov. However, a number of military experts said that the AK-12 was far behind the fifth-generation category. Izhmash, the maker of the AK-12, is satisfied with its new product. The main reason for satisfaction is the usage of the Picatinny rail that gives an opportunity to enhance the basic model with auxiliary equipment, such as sights, rangefinders, grenade launchers and so on. "To a certain extent,
Defense Ministry officials are right when they say that Izhmash does
not have any new products. We realize that, so our new team set a goal
to make a new assault rifle. We studied the advantages of the defense
ministry, special services, as well as the range of automatic weapons
that we have now. We found optimal solutions for a number of problems
during our work. In the new AK, we managed to provide wide opportunities
for mounting additional devices and to considerably improve ergonomics,"
Kuzyuk said. |
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New
Russian AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifle (Video) |
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