Thanks Dailymail for reminding us how retarded you are.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4417914/Kim-Jong-North-Korea-special-forces-military-parade.html

That's a rather obscure magazine design.  I'd give them a pass on that.

I had never heard of a helical magazine for AK's, learn something new every day.

Saw that on Drudge earlier.

I was impressed with their sunglasses skills and wonder how good their stargazers are. I'm thinking Gen1.

ROR!

Raugh out Roud

Never seen a helical mag on an AK, what caliber are those?

Ha! Is funny because they are helical magazines, not grenade launchers! 



Loving the PASGT knockoffs. I wonder if those NVGs of theirs actually work...

It was on here earlier too.

Dentistry not a priority.

If you look at it for more than 5 seconds, you can figure it out. Assuming you have more than 2 brain cells to rub together.

They look like it's the first time they went to play Airsoft.

"most well-fed"

lololololol

This.

I see Fobus made a package deal and included crayon kits for personalized cammo applications.

How cool is that ?

Look towards the bottom of the article - quad stack mags.  Apparently Norks love their weapons extra heavy.

Sweet, I bought some of these at the firework stand last summer!

I think 9x18 but going by memory so probably wrong

I kinda feel bad for these guys if they have to go toe to toe with our special forces...


JK LULZ

Looks like a Bizon mag

The cylinder actually contains their rice ration for the year. It's the best way to keep it secure.

I'll stand to be corrected, but I'm pretty sure those are rifle-caliber magazines, either 7.62 or 5.45.

Top Pic - 4th guy from the left.   Is that Chavez y Chavez aka Lou Diamond Phillips?

That is a lot to ask of those liberal readers.

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Your move kimmy

I bet it has more range than the missals they make

They come in pistol flavors. Those are probably 9x18mm

I'd like one in 7.62x25mm, but it doesn't come with the cool mag.

Yup.....

Not if you're a Leftist journalist.  You KNOW it's a grenade launcher, because you're one of the smartest people anywhere.

TC

Looks like a Russian (or Chi-com knockoff) PP-19 submachine gun.

Comes in multiple flavors, the Norks probably have them in 9x18 Mak or 7.62 Tok.

There is a reason why most other nations don't use helical mags

Second guy from reft is not shouting enthusiastically enough.  He need to be sent to target practice.    Neither is first guy in low, but maybe that is correct since he is the guide for That low?

Their stuff is not pointy enough!  Must be pointy to be scary.

Wow, those AK's look HUGE in the hands of those tiny underfed Norks.  Looks like a bunch of children running around playing Nerf.

I wonder how well those work and what the capacity is.

You have clearly stolen the design of Dear Leader and you will be punished!

Imperialist Dog!


TC

I honestly don't think anyone is going to be laughing at any of the North Korean forces that we wind up engaging. They have a long-standing reputation for brutality and mistreatment of any POWs they may happen to take, and they aren't a joke at all to anyone who ever actually paid attention to having to defend in South Korea. One of the concerns I had while I was over there was the fact that we're essentially road-bound, and very light on the ground in terms of actual ground troops to take control of the heights and keep it. The North Koreans know this, and from what we could tell from their intent, there was going to be a bunch of infiltration and "vertical flanking" when they came south, as they intended to work their light infantry into those hills and take them away from us.

I don't think that the North Koreans are any kind of joke, at all--Any ground combat we get into over there is going to be bloody and desperate, of a nature we haven't seen since the overrun attacks we suffered in Vietnam. My take on the whole thing is that there won't be any such thing as advance notice, or a warning; they come south, they're only going to do that if they think they've attained total surprise, strategic and tactical. I really don't see them as being stupid enough to attack into the teeth of a prepared, or even a warned defense. All those tunnels going under the DMZ, and all the SF assets they've got going exist for one reason, and one reason only: To enable them to attain surprise, and keep momentum on their side.

Whatever winds up happening, it won't be a joke. It will be bloody, it will be destructive, and the poor bastards on the ground when it goes off are likely to wind up like Task Force Smith. All our advantages in firepower and technology can evaporate in a single night of infiltration, surprise attack, and throat-slitting. And, today it's even worse than it was twenty-thirty years ago, when the ROKA was fully manned, and had the manpower/culture to get out into those hills and deal with the infiltrators. These days, when most Korean young men are more likely to have spent their teenage years playing Starcraft, instead of working their asses off in the rice paddies? Not so bloody sure, about that one...

How the fuck you gonna shoot an AK with irons when you got those goggles on your face and no LAM to aim with?

lulz

I disagree. I knew what it was the second I saw it. And I'm hardly a weapons expert. Pony up and pay for expert to review stuff.

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9x18mm holds 64 rounds

9x19mm holds 53

I'm guessing the magazines must not work well or been cost prohibitive to produce as most of the pictures of them in use, have the standard magazine.

No it's 5.45x39 Type 88.

I'm pretty sure I'm right, and you're wrong:

ARES North Korean Helical AK Magazine article

LOL....the sunglasses.  WTF.  They couldnt get chinese oakley knockoffs?

They look like a PP-19 Bizon which is 9x18

Morre-II plate holders.   SWEET!

That's the first picture I've seen with them having any kind of modern PPE/LBE.

Crazy.

Shit, take 2.
Go back and look at the boots, how they are laced, the age and the sole condition.  Norks got steel horseshoes on worn out parade boots for louder cloping.  Based on the pics they don't appear to have the tactical edge in durable footwear.

64 if 9x18, 45 if 7.62x25.

I'm a fan of point and laugh diplomacy. in other words move all US assets out of range of Nork artillery, point and laugh while they starve.