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Pictures of Bulgarian Kalashnikov's Around the World

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#1 ·
Post 'em if ya got 'em!

:cool:
 
#3 ·
[b]Iraqi AK's[/b]

Arsenal Bulgaria received several contracts to rearm the Iraqi National Guard (ING). Many of the AK's in Iraq were destroyed because the cost to overhaul them was prohibitive and the feeling was that one specific type of AK would be better vs. the hodge podge that existed previously.

















 
#6 ·
Does anyone know if the type III AKs being used by the ING with the 45 degree gas block and synthetic furniture have the trap door in the butt stock for the cleaning kit? Getting my SA93 re-done to look just like that but I couldn't tell by any of the photos what the rear of the butt stock looked like. Also, what do the bayonets that are being issued for these rifles, if any, look like? I hope to have pics up of the finished product in the next week or so.... :grin:
 
#18 ·
I was always wondering what those silver ak's the auc in columbia had been using. Now i know. thanks. They turned in a bunch of them when 2000 of them disbanded. There are like 15,000 of them. I wonder what happens to them all. Probably destroyed but I don't know for sure.
 
#22 ·
I don't know much about this one, other than it was supposedly taken in Iraq. It looks a lot like an SA M7 Classic, doesn't it? Sorry the pic is so crappy.
EDIT: Deleted to save Photobucket space. It wasn't a Bulgarian AK anyway.


GI holds AK with Eotech mounted
 
#23 ·
Great pics Zane! Thanks for posting.

I'm about 90% sure that the pic with the bundeled up GI is a Hungarian SA-85 stamped AKM. The angle of the buttstock looks to be too straight out for a milled gun with that drop built into it.

I can't make out the receiver, it's too dark, but the drop (or lack thereof) makes me think Hungarian stamped.
 
#24 ·
Templar said:
I'm about 90% sure that the pic with the bundeled up GI is a Hungarian SA-85 stamped AKM. The angle of the buttstock looks to be too straight out for a milled gun with that drop built into it.

I can't make out the receiver, it's too dark, but the drop (or lack thereof) makes me think Hungarian stamped.

Hmmmmm...could be. :grin:
 
#25 ·
Found another one. Iraqi National Guard training. The rifle is slightly out of focus, but it appears to be a Bulgarian milled AK with 90-degree gas block. The seam down the center of the buttstock gives it away as a polymer stock.

EDIT: I lightened it in Photoshop. You can just barely make out the seam on the stock now, but you can see more clearly that it's milled.


 
#26 ·
Bulgarian AK's in combat in Iraq. I tried enhancing this in Photoshop, but the image just distorts. You actually have to open it in Photoshop and zoom in to appreciate that the two rifles in the middle are Bulgarian milled AK's.



Here's one that was posted elsewhere (the Iraqi pic thread), here enlarged and sharpened in Photoshop:

 
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