Photo of AK-74 200

[snowhunter]

From russian News.

The new Kalasnikov Model AK-74 200

http://en.rian.ru/photolents/20100526/159166841_6.html

http://en.rian.ru/video/20100527/159184587.html

 

[dudley2112]

meh i like the original better.

 

[CanAm]

The most interesting thing there is the 50rd(?) mag (look closely)

 

[Cal45]

mmm PPSh-41...

 

[JP]

Look very akward and cumbersome.

 

[czechitout]

The gun factory looks just like the Spencers workshop

 

[nate18]

it looks heavy and bogged down. its cool, dont get me wrong, but its not gonna help them win the next war lol. they already have a good design and throwing some plastic and lights on isn't gonna do much as far as i know.

 

[r.fallon]

Yawn, boring, we like archaich wood stocked rifles that were the new kids in 1942

 

[ante_1313]

Interesting. But is this tacticool upgrade any better at getting the job done than its predecessors?

 

[CanAm]

Just a way to make more off a 60yo design. There is nothing new to that gun.

 

[lone-wolf]

The Russians probably have a gauss rifle hidden away. Keep bringing out updated AKs to make us think they've lost their touch, that Russia can't keep up in the arms race.

 

[Bcviking]

That is the new Ruskie 60 rounder mag like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJM8asnj6JY

 

[CanAm]

 

[-DeerStalker-]

On a side note shootin' Putin is probably one of the most bad@ss Prime Minister ever.

 

[cyclone]

The Russians probably have a gauss rifle hidden away. Keep bringing out updated AKs to make us think they've lost their touch, that Russia can't keep up in the arms race.

Terran marines, saddle up!...

 

[1895GS]

On a side note shootin' Putin is probably one of the most bad@ss Prime Minister ever.

Ditto.
He's the only prime minister that I'm afraid of running into in a dark alley.

 

[Nabs]

Meh, give me the good old '47 any day of the week.

 

[Satain]

It just goes to show you why no country f's with the ruskies anymore.

 

[FishDoc]

I still want one....(((WISHING REAL HARD)))
Farking 12.x

 

[Canuck I Am]

Ditto.
He's the only prime minister that I'm afraid of running into in a dark alley.

On a side note shootin' Putin is probably one of the most bad@ss Prime Minister ever.

Apparently the guy is something like a third degree black belt in Judo and has even released an instructional DvD.

I love how the guy looks completely unimpressed in ever picture or video he's appeared in. The dude just looks like the kind of maniac that would hunt homeless people at night with concertina wire.

As for the AK 'modernization' project, I'm just gonna have to laugh. It looks like the Russians have caught the tacticoolitis. Have fun heaving around a 60 year old rifle design weighed down with plastic, rails and god knows what else.

Whatever happened to the An-94?