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9/7/2026 10:28:36 AM EDT
Video is in Korean but it looks to be influenced by the AR family. I believe it's officially classified as a submachine gun:

https://spartanat.com/en/k17-next-generation-submachine-gun
9/7/2026 11:45:16 AM EDT
[#1]
English dubbed
https://youtu.be/iUXzMVPQSTQ?

It's their home grown HK416, HK even did a 60k rd shoot off with them.
9/7/2026 11:56:30 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Colt653][Edited] [#2]
no winter trigger ?

It gets fucking COLD in korea

9/7/2026 2:57:46 PM EDT
[#3]
It's got a 4 position selector. Looks like a nice rifle.
9/7/2026 3:37:31 PM EDT
[#4]
More detailed vid

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9/7/2026 3:41:38 PM EDT
[#5]
With all the pussy rails looks uncomfortable to shoot. Hard pass.
9/7/2026 3:57:11 PM EDT
[Last Edit: fulautotank][Edited] [#6]
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Originally Posted By Shadyman:
With all the pussy rails looks uncomfortable to shoot. Hard pass.
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It's an m-lok rail with pic rails added to it. What's a pussy rail?
9/7/2026 4:33:55 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Shadyman:
With all the pussy rails looks uncomfortable to shoot. Hard pass.
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Lol.  Soft hands talking about pussies.
9/7/2026 5:26:32 PM EDT
[#8]
I'm sure that South Korea can supply rail covers if they deemed necessary.
9/7/2026 9:46:16 PM EDT
[#9]
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Originally Posted By Shadyman:
With all the pussy rails looks uncomfortable to shoot. Hard pass.
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Guess you won't be soldiering in Best Korea then. Discomfort has kept many out of military service.
"An age of glory passed like a lightning flash. The mandate of heaven passed from you but you didn't see. Times change and power passes. It is the pity of the world."

Song dynasty poet
9/8/2026 4:17:04 AM EDT
[Last Edit: DasRonin][Edited] [#10]
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Originally Posted By Colt653:
no winter trigger ?

It gets fucking COLD in korea

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I spent a year in Korea up near the DMZ Feb 74-Feb 75. Now it looks like Japan, then it was like the Movie MASH. The only motor vehicles were military... a very primitive country still not even close to recovery from the Korean War. The barracks were not heated and the running water came out brown and cold in the showers.

Very fucking cold!

When we arrived at the AFB in Seoul and sIept in a tent heated by two diesel fired heaters. One at each end of the tent. Folding cots, two wool blankets and wearing the class A uniforms we traveled in. It was -45 that night. I was kinda close to one of the heaters and it was still well below zero! No cold weather gear was issued until we arrived at ou Camp assigned.

Once I arrived to my unit I slept in my issue down sleeping bag, in my wool long johns, in my bunk with two issue wool blankets and a blanket I purchased in the PX. That was still very uncomfortabe from the cold. We were issued wool shirts and pants and other Korean War vintage uniforms. I shared a room with a KATUSA (a Korean soldier who was a coworker). He never slept one night in our room. He had the option to sleep off post. Even he saw it was too cold to live in the barraks! At least the duty building I worked in had heat!

I cannot imagine fighting a ground war in the winter in Korea. The Korean soldiers had M1 Garands and a few had M1 Carbine. It would be nice if a semi-auto version could be imported. Never gonna happen though!
So... I find comfort in the fact that if Trump has to work so hard to go to Heaven, then there is a shit load of Democrats that have no f-cking chance to go anywhere but HELL. Sometimes it is entirely appropriate to kill a fly with a sledge-hammer.
9/8/2026 8:19:45 AM EDT
[#11]
Sub-machine guns fire a pistol cartridge, this is a true "assault rifle" that fires an intermediate rifle cartridge and is select fire.  Maybe a translation problem.   Has the patent expired yet on the Danial Defense design to attach the handguard?
9/8/2026 8:33:09 AM EDT
[#12]
In my experience, South Korea isn't that concerned with patents.
9/8/2026 8:59:14 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By Strela:


Guess you won't be soldiering in Best Korea then. Discomfort has kept many out of military service.
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South Korea has a mandatory 2 years service for all eligible persons. Generally what they do is finish up school then go into military services. You can sign up and go do your thing at 18.

Every male is considered recallable.
9/8/2026 9:01:12 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By ROMAD-556:
English dubbed
https://youtu.be/iUXzMVPQSTQ?

It's their home grown HK416, HK even did a 60k rd shoot off with them.
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Yeah it looks like a 416ish clone. I think one thing I'd be interested with is any surplus old rifles they might want to export and sell to the USA. It would be cool if they could just sell the uppers and surplus lower parts. . That would be massively cool. I know a few years ago they dumped their M1 Carbines back into the USA.
9/8/2026 2:51:48 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By DIYinSTL:
Sub-machine guns fire a pistol cartridge, this is a true "assault rifle" that fires an intermediate rifle cartridge and is select fire.  Maybe a translation problem.   Has the patent expired yet on the Danial Defense design to attach the handguard?
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SK Military designated it as a SMG it that because that's the "role" it's being used for like the K1A1 it is replacing....which replaced the M3 grease gun.


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