World War II Weapons still in use

[Vincent]

I came across this and thought some of you would like it.



Interesting to see STG44s sell for around $300 there.

Information

Warning: This is a relatively older thread This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current.

[browningautorifle]

Some short years back we say some footage of cases of STGs in Lybia. Cases...probably hundreds if not thousands... Love to go through them to see what's early, there probably isn't one set of matching numbers there anywhere.

[Sentryduty]

That is interesting, Afghanistan circa 2006, a Chinese built AK ran about $300 USD, while Russian and other first rate built guns ran for $6-700.

[browningautorifle]

a Chinese built AK

You mean an older steel solid AK, not the later stamped and bent sheet steel receiver?

[Sentryduty]

You mean an older steel solid AK, not the later stamped and bent sheet steel receiver?

You know I never thought to ask, just looked through my pictures and I do not have any of the milled Chinese AK, they are all the stamped type.

Some AK purist will probably jump on this, but I seem to recall the stamped versions with the dimple near the magazine well are considered an AKM?

Based on that Chinese AKM's were cheaper than the Russian, East German, or other Soviet country produced pieces.

I have only every handled one Chinese milled receiver rifle, it came out of the TMM collections, it was very well made, and had a bullet hole through the buttstock. It was a 1950/60's gun and the accessioning number indicated we got in sometime in the 1990's probably from one of the Balkans tours as it was a fully function FA version, formerly equipped with folding spike bayonet.

[browningautorifle]

Chinese AKM's were cheaper than the Russian, East German, or other Soviet country produced pieces.

Ok, I follow.

I have only every handled one Chinese milled receiver rifle, it came out of the TMM collections,

TMM? I had several in the small arms school collection in Gagetown...some with and some without bayonets. Most were machined body that came from the '74 war in Cyprus.

[Sentryduty]

TMM, New speak for The Military Museum, formerly the PPCLi Regimental Museum. Could have been a Cyprus find, but I never had the records available to dig up and follow.

We have another one, stamped AKM though, with a hand made butt and an artful UCK - Kosovo Liberation Army crest on the stock, it too is a Chinese built rifle.

[philb]

dam...

[browningautorifle]

The Military Museum

Been there several times...specially back when it was the Regt Museum.

[Flying10uk]

Are these WW2 weapons that have turned up in Syria likely to have come out of storage from within Syria and have been there for many years? Or are they more likely to have been imported to Syria after the civil war started and come out of storage from, perhaps, eastern Europe?