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The ARKA might get adopted by some smaller units I suspect. The IWS I wish the US Army would adopt but oh well.

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Well this ARKA literally has a T charging handle so its manual of arms is virtually the same as any AR in service. Hence my comment. Well the SCAR, ACR, and BREN are basically the same gun just slightly varied flavors of it

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AR-15 in manual of arms mostly… with the short stroke gas piston of the AR-18. Combining the best rifle layout with probably one of the best gas systems and you have a good recipe

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AKs are available. An-94s are barely available. That sort of gives you the answer my dear friend. The An-94 is not a wide scale adopted firearm and it’s not all that highly reliable for wide scale use. It’s also more complex to develop, maintain, and costs a lot more than an AK-12 which can do the same basic job as an infantry rifle but better. Not sure why you’re blindly defending such a gun to be honest. Sure I like the gun even though the Kord rifle is vastly superior to it but it’s not a “perfect conscript rifle” I don’t think you understand what conscripts really are because if you did know that then you’d know the An-94 is not the rifle for them…

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Manual of arms looks like it would be similar to the MP5 do I have that at all correct?

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Except even “professionals” still take AKs over these.

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Any gun can be reliable if kept in good condition… but that doesn’t mean the An-94 is anywhere near as robust as an AK-74

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Can’t imagine special forces wanting to use these things given their complexity and questionable reliability

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They’ve rarely been seen in the war. Think even the Kord rifles have been seen to a lesser extent as well

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Troops who have trained with them don’t seem all that keen on them either. Don’t like the bulk, higher recoil impulse, premature wear, think there were also issues with the issued suppressors and they didn’t like how they couldn’t carry as much ammo as if they were carrying M4s.

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Neither is insisting on a ludicrous 80,000psi round that is proving to be tough to produce and will wear out guns quickly. The entire program is simply stupid from a practicality and logistical standpoint.

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No we absolutely can dismiss it as vaporware. Taking long enough for the Su-57 production to mature into something that can truly compete with the west and other Eastern fighters. The Su-75 is unlikely to compete with anything

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Reports by Russian bots that can’t prove it’s flight tests or let alone it moving under its own power. AFAIK it’s vaporware

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8k isn’t good enough though but oh well

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It doesn’t and it’s not until it flies in my opinion. Same applies to whatever the fuck Iran did there

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Well… that’s the point of parts kits lol. I’d rather them be easier to rebuild

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Didn’t Dodge try this was the copperhead years prior?

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Until special forces demand it have a higher barrel life.

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Well the super high pressure full military grade ammo is hard to produce and the manufacturers are struggling to make it. The practice ammo is easier to make and even the hybrid case practice ammo is somewhat easy to make in quantity but the advertised combat loaded ammo? Yeah that’s the part of the equation of why this program is a problem.

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Vietnam making the 7.62 Tok conversion worked. Hell, China did that to the Thompson. I’d love to shoot a 7.62 ton heavy ass Thompson lol.

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Conversions are usually not ideal. Even these ones. I could have bought a MAS that was converted to 7.62 NATO but I did some research and a lot of people said to avoid them

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I’m going to be ill- Clarkson probably

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Thermobaric is rarely employed and fits a niche use relative to the rest

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That’s a no bueno from me

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Are all of those types in wide scale use? Half of them are probably not a necessity for combat

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Still ugly though. At least China did it better https://preview.redd.it/gegt262g9a2h1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a290bc98a643f43c28350dcd81055a979de8b28a

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But it’s not a Lamborghini therefore it’s not the best tractor for the job

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It was. But it’s cool

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LPVO is the main reason. ACOGs are still viable and great options but the LPVO seems to offer more flexibility

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The stingers were a really cool idea

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I love in the field weapon modifications. One of my favorites are the fully automatic M1 garands in WW2

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Only logical airframe replacement would be a 767 based aircraft. Why we didn’t adopt an AWACS, tanker and this aircraft based on the 767 back in the early-mid 2000s is beyond me

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When you want to send a line two ships over

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Take a wild guess

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The REAPR is already adopted by some special forces units which is pretty neat

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Replace it with an AR or AM-17

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Are those common issues with these or what?

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Though highly impractical and silly I’d imagine seeing a group of these guys walking across no man’s land with BARs would be quite a scary sight

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PMAGs are cheap but not every gun likes them. Case in point the SCAR-L

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Even without FPVs most combat even with body armor isn’t going to really make a difference if you’re being shot by 5.45, 5.56, or 7.62. You’re going to be shot multiple times and you will die one way or another. The M7 answers a question literally no one with a functioning brain in the military high command asked… it’s a completely useless and impractical weapon system for a problem that simply isn’t a concern.

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If combat footage from Ukraine has shown us anything it’s that body armor is irrelevant when an FPV hits you.

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Unnecessary gun and caliber for an unrealistic/unnecessary niche role that is unlikely to matter anymore.

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If not carry handle then why carry handle shaped? Joke aside the QBZ-95 series of guns are very cool looking

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That’s just semantics

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They still failed. Failing is failing.

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No, it’s been a long time since I saw them. The AKs all failed equally as bad. Still surprised the CETME L did good

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I’ve seen every inrange ak mudtest

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Be good to give more guys shotguns for anti drone combat

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Has to be due to tolerances because not every AK will be made to the same standard and you see that historically with fit and finish not being the same across various manufacturers