It would have been handy to have been able to go through the film footage frame by frame because of what else we could have picked out. I think that there may have also been one or two K98s and or Mosin Nagants but the camera panned round far too quickly for me to be sure. There was definitely at least one MG42 or a derivative captured on film. What I don't know is to what extent this weapon was used in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the exact models or the origin.

It is the conflict in Afghanistan involving the Soviets that I am interested in because that is when the film footage in question was taken.