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    Default AKs used by SANDF

    Pictures in this link show SANDF soldiers in Mozambique with AKs mounted with underslung grenade launchers. They look new but I guess in stores there would be plenty new equipment left over from the border war?

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    Default Re: AKs used by SANDF

    Looks like R5s.

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    Default Re: AKs used by SANDF

    100% underfolder AKMs.

    RR has all sorts of things in inventory.
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    Default Re: AKs used by SANDF

    Are these guys not a little to far South?

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    Default Re: AKs used by SANDF

    Quote Originally Posted by SSP View Post
    100% underfolder AKMs.

    RR has all sorts of things in inventory.
    Thanks yes I can see by the dust cover now. I’m not really an AK guy but the magazine looks longer than the standard 30 rounder?

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    Default Re: AKs used by SANDF

    Quote Originally Posted by Wild coast View Post
    Thanks yes I can see by the dust cover now. I’m not really an AK guy but the magazine looks longer than the standard 30 rounder?
    Could be a 40 rounder.
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    Default Re: AKs used by SANDF

    The vehicle and rifles clearly point to one particular unit, who's base is not very far from where I live.

    And yes, they do have some interesting toys in their inventory.

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    Many parts of 32 Battalion exclusively used AKM during the war.
    PMP even made the ammo and still did so recently

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    P226 Handguns ?

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    Default Re: AKs used by SANDF

    makes sense

    1) Logistcally the moz army uses AKs
    2) firing a R4 and R5 in mozambique is a very different noise to an Ak and could attract attention
    3) 7.62x39 doppies doesn't point to any one SADC country involved

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