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1/15/2007 5:27:46 PM EDT
If the AK74 mainly the 5.45 round so much better why hav'nt more combloc, former combloc, middle east and other countrys adapted it?
1/15/2007 5:37:13 PM EDT
[#1]
Money.... Why replace something that works good enough?
1/15/2007 5:38:24 PM EDT
[#2]
+1 money Ammo is easily gotten in 7.62.
1/15/2007 7:17:15 PM EDT
[#3]

Quoted:
If the AK74 mainly the 5.45 round so much better why hav'nt more combloc, former combloc, middle east and other countrys adapted it?


Actually, most did adopt it...

And they adopted it just as the old evil empire was falling apart...

That's why you could buy Bulgarian AK-74 kits cut up from absolutely brand new rifles...

That's why you could buy Polish Tantal kits cut up from absolutely brand new rifles...

That's why..., well, you've probably caught my drift by now.

Many of the Warsar Pact countries were just producing the AK-74 when things fell apart.  Suddenly, they do an about face and join NATO, which required rearming with 5.56x45mm NATO firearms.  All those AK-74s were suddenly 'worthless'...



Forrest

1/16/2007 6:34:45 AM EDT
[#4]
And even with all of our $$ and mfg capacity, we went out of our way to share most of the platform with our current 6.x caliber efforts for the AR. Lots of inertia in operations that big.
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