The ones in the picture are likely a mix of 5.56 and 7.62 firearms. Both Ukraine would have in abundance
Heaps of 7.62 here. Not so many 5.56 or 9mm, you have to import it, AK74 uses incompatible Soviet 5.45 caliber.
Assault rifles are welcome, anything is better than standard-issue AK74, which combines excess weight with poor accuracy and awkward handling. Even smaller guns are fine, SMGs are pretty much the same 200 meter effective range as AK while being shorter. As long as you can find ammo for them.
Please send some grenade launchers and RPGs, they are immediately useful.
Please send some grenade launchers and RPGs, they are immediately useful.
I wish I had some spares but I have to hold on to everything I’ve got, sorry.
(For the non-americans and ATF agents out there, the joke is that we can’t fucking get those. Don’t come kill my dog, my dog is a cat anyway.)
I’m surprised the Miami police don’t have a bunch of confiscated RPGs it would seem like they would.
Real issue is actually going to be a (lack of) full auto. Sincerely doubt anything in these pics is an MG. Even if Ukraine fabricates automatic components (drop-in-auto-sears do exist for ARs), the barrels aren’t going to hold up to automatic fire well.
They might be useful in a police/border guard/militia capacity, though?
Are the Ukrainian grunts really using full auto that much? Does trench warfare make it useful in a way that urban and mobile warfare doesn’t use? My understanding is that basically no one outside of designated machinegunners really use full auto.
Anyway, like you said, at the very least it’ll free up other weapons for the front lines.
101st Airborne has been issued new M4A1’s since 2012, and the Army has been converting M4s to M4A1s since 2014.
https://asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/soldier-m4a1-carbine/
https://www.guns.com/news/2014/05/24/army-infantry-beginning-adoption-of-upgraded-m4a1-carbines
