Modifications to the fifth generation assault rifle Kalashnikov AK-12 used by their country’s forces in war in Ukraine the Russians do. The aim is to increase the rate of fire and give its operators easier control of the fire selector.
In the AK-12 version that entered service from 2018, as Kalashnikov company president Alan Lushnnikov told RIA, “the two-shot option will be disabled, and now operators will be able to choose between either shot-by-shot or automatic mode, while there will also be an adapter in stock.’
“In the shortest possible time, we selected technical solutions, built a prototype and demonstrated it to representatives of the Russian Ministry of Defense,” Alan Luznikov pointed out, as reported by the Athens News Agency.
The president of the Kalashnikov company did not specify when he expects the modified rifle to enter service. He limited himself to saying that the company is in the process of copyrighting his new design rifle.
The Kalashnikov AK-12 is the primary rifle of the Russian armed forces
The AK-12, with a caliber of 5.45 mm and a barrel of 415 mm, developed by the Kalashnikov industry, is the main rifle of the Russian armed forces. It has improved reliability and accuracy over earlier models of the “Kalashnikov Automat” designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov and entered service in 1949 in the former Soviet Union.
The Kalashnikov industry was sanctioned by the US in 2014, the year the Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. The European Union and Britain imposed their own sanctions on the company this year.
Source: News Beast
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