AKs mounted on Chineses artillery barrels
UPDATE: It is Chinese Artillery, not North Korean. Sorry, my mistake. Apparently those are Chinese characters in the background. Thanks Danger Zone for the correction.
A photo in the NK AAA article I recently blogged about show AKs mounted on artillery barrels. The theories on MilitaryPhotos.net are that they could be:
- Crude Sights
- Used to fire tracers
- Used to fire bullets during training instead of artillery rounds to save cost.
The only other explanation I can think of is that they are just stowed away up there. Although I don’t see how the operators could climb up a hot barrel to fetch it during combat.
Anyone know what they are really there for?
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They are just showing off in the propaganda picture. It served no purpose, that how the communist mindsets worked.
Those are Type 81 LMGs, not AKs.