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>>6543210
Very nice get.

>>6544678
Nah, AR carbines were already getting quite reliable by the 80s and 90s, and full sized subguns like the MP5 only make a lot of sense for either suppressing (also since surpassed), or in the absence of good and reliable carbines.

>>6035568
There would be no AKM without previous developments in things like smokeless powder, rifled bores, percussion caps, metallic cartridge cases, jacketed bullets, along with various advances in metallurgy and manufacturing; forging, milling, stamping, riveting, heat treating, plating, parkerizing, etc, etc, along with numerous weapons Mikhail Kalashnikov took direct inspiration from, like the M1 Garand, 1918 BAR, Remington Model 8, etc. The AKM didn't come from a vacuum, and since you use the proper designation, you should be well aware of how it's the upgraded fix to the initial AK, or "AK47", which was planned for a stamped and riveted receiver from the get go, but which had to be abandoned soon as the state of the Russian arms industry just wasn't developed enough to produce them correctly with consistency, leading to the famously thick and heavy, expensive, though robust, machined billet receiver.

It's also not particularly modern looking next to a decent AR15, and CRT shaders are hideous.

>>5992865
Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me that I need to finish the ADS for my carbine.