Russia to stop making new AK74s

[dead0man]

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[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

There are enough in circulation to last many many years.

[dead0man]

10 million...for an Army of 1 million.  That's a lot of extra to sell to your friends.  Most of the other users of the 74 make their own, except Georgia, but I'm not sure how much arms Russia is selling Georgia these days.  Will the 74 replace the 47 as the weapon of choice for terrorists and third world gurellas?  It's not as rugged as the 47 and the round is smaller, but that just means you can carry more.

[opebo]

Well obviously their mistake was to make a new model instead of continuing with the AK-47.  By the way, is the AK-47 still made anywhere in the world?

I ask because sometimes good first world products are still made for decades afterward in developing countries.  Some cases in point:

The Hindustan Ambassador, modeled on the Morris Oxford III of the late 1950s:



The Khodro Samand of Iran, modeled on the Peugeot 405 of the late 1980s/early 1990s:

[Silent Hunter]

10 million...for an Army of 1 million.

A bit more than that.

You need to remember that the USSR not only had a much larger standing army; it could call on very large numbers of reserves in a war, as all its male population had gone through conscription.

[Sbane]

Well obviously their mistake was to make a new model instead of continuing with the AK-47.  By the way, is the AK-47 still made anywhere in the world?

I ask because sometimes good first world products are still made for decades afterward in developing countries.  Some cases in point:

The Hindustan Ambassador, modeled on the Morris Oxford III of the late 1950s:



The Khodro Samand of Iran, modeled on the Peugeot 405 of the late 1980s/early 1990s:

The ambassador is a crap car. Though the socialists in India still like it. The normals have moved on.