Safir Arms New AR-57 Upper And Bullpup Rifle
It looks like Turkish firearms maker Safir Arms is working on their own AR-57 rifle and upper kits that they’re calling the T-57. What’s a AR-57 upper? It’s pretty much an AR-15 upper chambered in the FN 5.7x28mm round and that uses the FN P90 magazine on top of the rifle just like how the P90 does.
Safir seems to also be working on their own bullpup rifle that they’re calling the T-14 rifle. Not much is known yet about their new T-57 upper/rifle or T-14 bullpup rifle other than what was posted on their website.
From the Safir website, translated from Russian via Google Translate.
Company Safir – a dynamic company, we try to introduce fresh ideas and are ready to make our customers with new offerings. We are always happy to offer our customers the latest developments. Currently our company put into production a new and unique set of T-57 chambered 5.6 h28mm. This complex may be supplied as a finished product or as a pre-assembled kit for installation on T-14 rifle. A set is a collection barrel in the upper receiver, bolt and unique nadstvolnym box magazine, and is easily installed on the T-14 rifles instead of the upper receiver. T-57: T-57 Conversion Kit: Also we are pleased to present you our new development located on stage testing and staging to production. This model T-17 and T-18. Carbine T-17 is in a “bullpup” that will get rid of unused space butt significantly reduce the overall length of the weapon while maintaining optimal length of the barrel, to further reduce the recoil shoulder, and thereby significantly increase accuracy.
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Needs modified ergonomics. Charging handle and fire mode selector needs to be moved forward. Make the selector ambidextrous and charging handle flippable to either side like G-36. And, just like many Bullpups can't be fired by a leftie. Russians learnt that lesson with OC-14 Groza which is simply an AKS-74U in bullpup. Want a bullpup? Buy one made from clean sheet. Like AUG, A-91M or something else. Adaptations are rarely well-thought out.
Since Safir Arms screwed over everyone in the USA who previously purchased a T-14 (which is a .410 semi-auto shotgun based on the AR-15 platform) I certainly wouldn't buy anything else from them again. I think this blog is in error saying the bullpup is to be called the T-14 since it already exists. I believe they are instead attempting to build the T-57 as a
5.7x28mm AR style upper that you would mount on their T-14 lower (which is basically a standard AR-15 lower). The bullpup is the T-17, and the SCAR like clone is the T-18. They were supposed to have set up US manufacturing in NJ two years ago but silently shut down operations and pulled out of the US completely, leaving anyone who purchased one of their T-14's (or AT-14's if purchased through ATI) without the promised 2 year full and lifetime limited warranty support and without spare parts or the higher capacity magazines that they had been promising for several years. Unless they actually do at some point open a US manufacturing facility, watch out for Section 922r compliance issues and also lack of warranty service or repair parts.