Zastava-Remington AK's

[LeibstandarteAdH]

Here is all i have in terms of pictures:








It looks like this is fineally coming true!

Xinhua
October 21, 2005


Serbian weapons maker Zastava Oruzje on Tuesday signed the first commercial agreement with a US company for the sale of its products on the US market during the forthcoming year.

The agreement, worth 3.2 million US dollars, was signed in Kragujevac, a major city located 140 km southeast of Belgrade, where Zastava Oruzje is based, the official Tanjug news agency reported.

According to the agreement with US arms manufacturer Remington,24,000 carbine and small-calibre units will be placed on the US market, but the carbines will be delivered without butts and with the label, "Remington-Zastava."

The agreement also includes the marketing of Zastava's sports weapons, the joint development of new models of weapons, exchange of experiences, and the introduction of technical and technological innovations.

Trade Attache at the US embassy in Belgrade, Maria Andrew, said that she was very proud that one of the oldest American companies was cooperating with an enterprise from Serbia-Montenegro.

Zastava Oruzje was founded 152 years ago, and Remington 189 years ago and the two companies should set an example to other companies both in Serbia-Montenegro and the US, Andrew said.

Serbian Minister of Capital Investments Velimir Ilic said thathe was very satisfied the Kragujevac plant signed its first contract with a foreign partner, especially as the partner is a USproducer of weapons.

"It is very important that we have created a platform of safety and stability at Zastava Oruzje, so that now our plant can appear on the market with the largest producers of weapons in theworld," Ilic said.

 

[Beagle-zebub]

Wha....

That is weird. Cool, no doubt, but weird. Will these be like the old thick-receiver versions that we've been geting as surplus?

 

[LeibstandarteAdH]

Yeah, bulged front trunions just like the m70. Has magazine dimples as well just like the Post 89-Pre 94 Mitchell Arms Zastava imports, but with that weird bulged front handguard just like on the m92's

 

[kcmarine]

When are these getting here? And any ideas on cost if they do end up stateside?

 

[R127]

That's awesome news! Zastava makes some good stuff. I'd purr like a walrus if Remington would import their newly manufactured 9rd TT-33 variant called the M57. They also make some really sweet new manufactured SKS variants and Mausers.

http://www.zastava-arms.co.yu/english/civilni.htm

 

[LeibstandarteAdH]

their newly manufactured 9rd TT-33 variant called the M57

That would be awesome as ****.

 

[nalioth]

It looks like this is fineally coming true!

Do you have any current news? Your article is several years old.

 

[bl4ckd0g]

Especially if they import sporterized m76 or SVD copy.

 

[Anteater1717]

Now Remington makes an AR and an AK.

 

[Prince Yamato]

Has hell finally frozen over?

 

[DWARREN123]

Glad to see firearms of this type going main stream!

 

[GooseGestapo]

Obviously you haven't seen a 2007 or 2008 Remington catalog......

This was refering to what Remington is calling the m798 and m799....

What Interarms imported as the MkX Mauser and Mini-Mauser actions....back in the '70's and '80's.

Bolt action rifles....... Rather good ones at that. With Boyd supplying the laminated stocks.

The images in the first posters narrative have nothing to do with the news release he referenced.

 

[stevelyn]

Looks like they're falling all over themselves distancing themselves from Zumbo and his coments.

 

[Lichter]

hmm that'd be cool, can't find anything about it on Remington's website though

 

[RevolverMan567]

nah

wouldnt count on seeing an ak in that line up any time soon, at least the AR is american. hell would have to freeze over before id beleive this load, btw as mentioned before this is form 3 years ago and that only zastava's i have seen in remmys catalog have been the 798 and 799, maybe these pages were torn out of mine.

 

[Coronach]

A faithful SVD copy would be about 7.62 kinds of awesome.

Mike

 

[mp510]

wouldnt count on seeing an ak in that line up any time soon, at least the AR is american. hell would have to freeze over before id beleive this load, btw as mentioned before this is form 3 years ago and that only zastava's i have seen in remmys catalog have been the 798 and 799, maybe these pages were torn out of mine.

I bet that we'll see them before too long. The same AK from the OP's picture is plastered on EAA's home page.

 

[BattleChimp Potemkin]

BTW, Ive seen the M70 in our local shop, roughly 230 dollars "new". 9x19, not terribly great in the trigger pull, however, slimmer than heck. If you got rid of their funky high rear sight, you would have a 9mm VERY slim IWB gun that would be the envy of your arsenal!

 

[LeibstandarteAdH]

Do you have any current news? Your article is several years old.

No, not anything besides what you may, or may not have already seen.


Heres most of it that isn't more fourm postings and quotes -

"EAA ZASTAVA P.A.P. AK-47 7.62X39" - now in gzanders catalog but not in stock yet - http://consumer.gzanders.com/itemdetail.php?itemnumber=G350210

And here is a picture of it on the Main page/current abbreviated product lineup of EAA's website which is also the cover to their new dealer catalog in print - http://www.eaacorp.com/index.html

Those two are hardly a "load of fourm postings from 3 years ago" but then again i woulden't be holding my breath just because it's in 2 big companys newest catalog releases.

Some newer links to articles then what i had posted before -

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698016/posts


Serbia's weapons producer attracts US companies
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/comments.php?nav_id=36621

US companies are jostling to set up a joint venture with the Serbian arms producer Zastava Oružje.

This weapons company made rifles and pistols for the military under Yugoslav leaders including Josip Broz Tito and Slobodan Milosević.

The state-owned company, Zastava Oružje, plans to pick a partner by the end of this month to form a unit that will sell revolvers, hunting guns and long-range sniping rifles in the US, General Manager Dragoljub Grujović said today. Seven US companies have expressed interest, he said, without naming any.

“Zastava was exporting to the US for years, but the wars ended that between 1991 to 2001,” Grujović said in a telephone interview. “This is a great opportunity for us to renew our exports to the US, which is a giant market.''

Zastava Oružje was founded 153 years ago as a foundry making canons with the Serb coat of arms, according to its Web site. It later made weapons for soldiers in both World Wars and a cheaper version of the AK-47 rifle for Yugoslav forces under Tito. The company then made equipment for troops under Milosevic, who died in March while on trial at the United Nations war crimes tribunal.

The factory was damaged during the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's bombing of former Yugoslavia in 1999, strikes that were designed to end the crackdown by Serbian troops against ethnic Albanians in the southern province of Kosovo. The company restarted production in 2000.

The joint venture, to be called Zastava Arms USA, would only sell arms in the first year before producing its own weapons in the second year of operation, Grujović said by telephone.

Remington Guns

Zastava Oružje, which exports to the US, Mexico, Africa and Asia, already has a contract with Remington Arms Company Inc., the oldest gun maker in the US, for 24,000 hunting rifles worth about 4 million dollars going on sale this year.

“We're negotiating another contract for 2007,'' Grujović said. “Our cooperation with Remington could help us double our sales in America,'' he said.

The Serbian government's press office said the initial contract was signed on Oct. 18, 2005. Remington, based in Madison, North Carolina, includes models 799 and 798 in its latest catalog, which Grujović identified as Zastava's. Remington's information department said those guns are made in Serbia and will go on sale in the US at the end of the current quarter.

Zastava Oružje is boosting production of hunting and sporting arms by 50 percent within next few years, Grujović said.

I don't have any hard facts on what ship these things would be coming in on, or the bonded warehouse they will be in, but EAA is bringing in the "PAP" thumbhole stocked new production M70's and remington is bringing in sporting Mausers that will be marked Remington-Zastava.

I could honestly care very little less about new production stuff on the M48's old tooling in other things than 8mm being sold by remington, but new production Zastava M70's that we havent seen sience Mitchell Arms died is a whole nother' ballgame to me.

 

[azhunter12]

I can't believe what I'm hearing.

 

[Ash]

So it's the EAA connection. They are importing the CZ-999's as the EZ. It doesn't surprise me that they are importing Zastava AK's because they were the ones who imported the Siagas for a while (Before Russian American Armory, RAA). IN any case, it's on their website.

http://www.eaacorp.com/

Ash

 

[lonegunman]

I bet Jim Zumbo is rolling in his grave.




I know he is not really dead, just dead to anyone not part of the Brady Campaign.

 

[MAKster]

Remington is already importing the Zastava mauser bolt actions. I don't see how you are making the leap to them importing AK style rifles.

 

[Ash]

Well, as it is on the EAA website, who is also importing Zastava pistols (Remington doesn't import handguns, either), I think it is pretty well settled that EAA is doing the importing and not Remington.

Ash

 

[paintballdude902]

..........wow