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One thing I’ve noticed is that Kalashnikov-pattern rifles, even today, consistently are more outdated than their AR-15 counterparts. Many rifles still have wooden furniture, lack rails, have no optics, etc. The modern AKs that are being produced are either very unreliable like the AK-12 or still stuck in the prototyping stage, like the AKV-521.
Why was the M16 and M4A1 able to have their designs drastically updated to fit modern standards while the AK design, from the AK-47 to the AK-74 to the AK-12, seems to always stay the same? What makes it hard to mount an optic on the AK? And why didn’t the Soviet Union’s design boards fix any of the issues with the AK-47 when they put out the AK-74?
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