Evil Monkey
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Anybody get the feeling that 7.62x39mm is in its beginning stages of extinction?
If you take a look around the world, many 3rd world countries use an ak variant and the x39 round. There were certainly more so 30 years ago, I'm sure. It just seems that when countries start growing and finally need new weapons, they usually go shopping instead of acquiring them domestically (because there isn't anything available, no company's, engineers,etc ).
So now you have this big shopping store called the world arms market. Because of Soviet Communism, there's practically one design for each class of weapon, like your ak's, PKM, svd, etc. Most of these countries shopping for weapons already more than likely have these soviet arms and want something else. Capitalist countries have many companies that produce many flavors of weapons. 99% of the time, they only come in NATO calibers!
Then you have countries who join nato so now they have to use nato calibers. Countries that become friendly to the west and eventually arm themselves with nato caliber weapons. And finally, countries that can afford to develop their own weapons and use nato calibers for whatever reason.
Where ever you look, there are new assault rifles being made in 5.56x45mm or a country's armed forces buying existing 5.56x45mm rifles.
If you take a look around the world, many 3rd world countries use an ak variant and the x39 round. There were certainly more so 30 years ago, I'm sure. It just seems that when countries start growing and finally need new weapons, they usually go shopping instead of acquiring them domestically (because there isn't anything available, no company's, engineers,etc ).
So now you have this big shopping store called the world arms market. Because of Soviet Communism, there's practically one design for each class of weapon, like your ak's, PKM, svd, etc. Most of these countries shopping for weapons already more than likely have these soviet arms and want something else. Capitalist countries have many companies that produce many flavors of weapons. 99% of the time, they only come in NATO calibers!
Then you have countries who join nato so now they have to use nato calibers. Countries that become friendly to the west and eventually arm themselves with nato caliber weapons. And finally, countries that can afford to develop their own weapons and use nato calibers for whatever reason.
Where ever you look, there are new assault rifles being made in 5.56x45mm or a country's armed forces buying existing 5.56x45mm rifles.
