Kalashnikov Delivers 35,000 AK-12s to Russian Army
Russian state news service TASS has reported that 35,000 new 5.45x39mm AK-12s have been delivered to the Russian army. With deliveries continuing apace this indicates that Kalashnikov Group are on track to meet their target of delivering over 110,000 rifles by 2021.
Kalashnikov Group CEO Dmitry Tarasov told TASS that “We have already closed the contract for this year, i.e. we have made all the deliveries for 2020,” he said, adding that the number of rifles amounted to “about 35,000.”
The Kalashnikov CEO announced in April this year that the Izhevsk based company had successfully completed their deliveries for 2020 well ahead of schedule. Back in April 2019, the company confirmed that they planned to deliver 112,500 of the new AK-12 assault rifles to the Russian Federation’s armed forces between 2019 and 2021. The Russian Defense Ministry announced on June 1 that the Airborne Force received about 10,000 AK-12 assault rifles during 2019 and in the first half of 2020.
Kalashnikov unveiled the AK-12 back in 2014, the Russian armed forces adopted the AK-12 four years later and we first saw the new rifles in the hands of Russian troops at the 2019 May Day Parade, with around 400 troops from the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School, 131th Airborne Regiment and Second Mechanized Infantry Division seen marching with the new rifles through Red Square.
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Team 1 look really happy
Team 2 look really angry
horrible, even russians are using multicam....... I like multicam but I want countries to develop their own camo. old soviet and german camo was amazing. today everyone just copies american