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Hanzerik - is that AK-74 really the newer 74? Or is it supposed to say Ak-47 and it's mistyped?

Is that our military?
 
quote by Economist : Hanzerik - is that AK-74 really the newer 74? Or is it supposed to say Ak-47 and it's mistyped?


looks like a AK-74 to me , with the laminated plastic and steel mag. and if you noticed there's hardly any muzzle climb. :)
 
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TheEconomist said:
Hanzerik - is that AK-74 really the newer 74? Or is it supposed to say Ak-47 and it's mistyped?

Is that our military?
Yes it is a AK-74 (With plastic furniture...mags included). The other ones we had with the thumbhole stocks are semi-auto MAC-90s, Our folding and wood stocked select-fire AK-47s were in pretty bad shape and wouldn't cycle very well. Don't know why we didn't bring out the G3. The RPG-7 was also fired but I didn't get any footage of it because it is a pretty dangerous weapon to be around when firing; duds, back blast, tail fins breaking off and it doing 45-90 degree turns 50 feet from the muzzle, etc, etc. If you see the RPG shooter chuck that thing in the ditch and start running...better try to catch up with him :)

And yes, it is our Military, US Air Force to be exact. We provided foreign weapons familiarization training to our students.
 
These are probably pretty small if you're using a high screen res, and forgive the funny border as they're off my website.

I took these two back in the early 80's while a corpsman stationed with the 1st Tank Bn, 1st Marine Div, at Camp Pendleton. Southern impact area. If I remember right... either range 407 or 407a. Taken at night using a tripod and shutter speed of about 30 seconds, again, if I remember correctly. The large tracers are the 105mm main gun rounds, the smaller ones are from the 7.62 coaxial machine gun.

ms~tanks11.jpg

The second pic is interesting because the tank fired right after I opened the shutter then elevated his gun tube for the remainder of the time the shutter was open.

ms~tanks12.jpg
 
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