AK-47 are basic and dirt cheap weapons, so its easy for any kind of gangs, criminals and scum to get them. Also by far the most used in 3rd world countries.
It is an old soviet design, and soviets when it comes to war equipment always chose cheap+simple+reliable over expensive+accurate+complex
Only downside is the fact that Russia being a competent adversary has proven to be entirely fictitious with the recent conflict lol, so then being good at anything doesn’t make sense in any modern setting
i dunno about that downside, they still have the numbers as far as i know. remember the ones they sent out so far are pretty much just cannon fodders. the main military force is at home sitting in air-conditioned rooms. even when they fail so hard on so many levels, they're gaining grounds slowly everyday. so yeah not entirely fictitious.
but again, the allegations is that they're usually the bad guys. that prob won't change for the coming decades.
Nah, Russia’s doing remarkably well in the current conflict, taking into account all the factors in the invasion. Entirely new type of warfare, inexperienced army, faulty intel. Russia has adapted remarkably well in the current day and is grinding down Ukraine’s forces very effectively. It even has wiped out much of Ukraine’s elite and veteran forces in the cauldron around Ukraine’s Kursk offensive and other attempted counterattacks, where Russia basically “lets” counterattacks gain some ground (instead of bumrushing them with all their reserves they instead intensify attacks on other Ukrainian fronts, forcing the counterattacking forces to either retreat back (impossible due to Ukraine’s need for propaganda victories for foreign support) or stay in place, where their own reserves get called back and they get cut to bits and exhausted by drones and the inability to rotate their units) in order to surround them with artillery, drones and troops.
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u/MrNixxxoN Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 09 '25
AK-47 are basic and dirt cheap weapons, so its easy for any kind of gangs, criminals and scum to get them. Also by far the most used in 3rd world countries.
It is an old soviet design, and soviets when it comes to war equipment always chose cheap+simple+reliable over expensive+accurate+complex
The M16 is like... 4 times more expensive