Vietnamese AKn, basically AK's upgrade with polymer parts

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EmeraldP13@reddit

You think someone could at least somewhat clone this with an Arsenal sam-7 and some new furniture?

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Organic_South8865@reddit

Is that a stamped or milled receiver?

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Organic_South8865@reddit

Yeah. Not sure why I asked. A stamped receiver is just so much cheaper to build but I guess if you want them to last 40 years of neglect and abuse it makes sense.

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MountainTitan@reddit

Their new STV rifles also have milled receiver. All, if not, most of their milling is now done in Haas CNC machines.

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MountainTitan@reddit

Probably called AKn because of the night vision optic rail.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1E2ARehaxo/

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MoreBerretaDaBetta@reddit

I know Vietnam uses domestic firearms in 762x39 and other firearms in 5.56x45, but do they use 5.45x39 at all?

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MassiveFire@reddit

Pretty much none.

5.45 wasn't really significantly adopted outside of soviet/post-soviet countries. Everyone else who had the AK simply stuck to 7.62x39.

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RamTank@reddit

Most of the WP also adopted it, but I don't think they fully switched over before the wall fell, and pretty much all of them joined NATO and switched to 5.56.

NK has a lot of 5.45 though, for some reason.

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MassiveFire@reddit

If I remember correctly, the soviet union demanded quite a high price when it came to 5.45 and ak-74 platform, even for WP nations.

I remember in Ian's video on the Polish tantal, where instead of paying the licensing cost for the ak-74 technical package, the poles instead just redesigned their akm platform to use 5.45.

Same story for Czechoslovakia. Their attempt to adopt 5.45 (which stopped after the country split into the czech republic and slovakia) also made their own akm-based designs rather than adopting the 74.

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wysoft@reddit

Same for Romania.

The AIMS-74 was largely an in-house design, with a lot of minute differences from the actual AK-74.

Romania has also produced a few 5.56 NATO AK variants that share traits with both the AIMS-74 and the EG Weiger StG-940 series - supposedly some of the production blueprints and tooling found their way to Romania either before or when the wall fell - it's still somewhat of an annoyance to the German government that they don't know where a lot of that stuff went. They've supposedly never accounted for the production blueprints taken from the Weisa arsenal.

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