Iranian AK's

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Discussion Starter · Sep 19, 2010

I know this is a Iraqi section but there close to each other.

Iranian AK's

The Assault rifle type KL-7.62 mm is a gas-operated rifle and capable both of semi-automatic and automatic fire and intended for destroying hostile individual and group also can be in close combat by bayonet and butt stock has become the weapon of all army forces especially suited for the partisan war fares in every weather conditions.The rifle is supplied in various types such as
fixed butt stock (KLS), under folding butt stock (KLF) & side folding butt stock (KLT). Also it should be mentioned that the rifle has a multi-purpose bayonet.

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Story

· #41 · Nov 8, 2018

GULF OF ADEN (Aug. 28, 2018) A bag of AK-47 automatic rifles seized from a skiff by the guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham's (DDG 109) visit, board, search and seizure team while conducting maritime security operations. The stateless skiff was found carrying a shipment of over 1,000 illicit weapons. Jason Dunham is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and the Pacific through the western Indian Ocean and three strategic choke points.
HiRez here
https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=106959

Based on an analysis of all available information, including crew interviews, a review of onboard records and an examination of the arms aboard the vessel, the United States concluded that the arms from the four interdictions in 2015 and 2016 originated in Iran and were intended to be delivered to the Houthis in Yemen in contravention of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2216.
https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=106959

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Spuninmo

· #42 · Nov 20, 2018

Recreation Shooting

from an Iranian Military expo....I built an iranian clone with the black furniture the germans used so they could deny outfitting the iranians. Here is the album of my build....https://imgur.com/a/rIPvz. The info I put up was what I was able to get off an old intel book on iranian small arms and talking to a local guy that served in the iranian army in the 70s. To my knowledge the info I put in the album is correct according to my sources. Apologies for any inaccuracies.

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Story

· #43 · Nov 20, 2018

Nice work, Spuninmo.

At first glance, these all look like Norinco products but from February 2016 on board the Australian frigate HMAS Darwin discovered the cache @195 miles off the coast of Oman. The U.S. Navy believes the boat had set off from Iran and that the crew were Iranian. cargo destined to destined for Yemen to be used by Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels.

Note: not enough resolution to get anything useful out of an enlarged version -> https://i.imgur.com/DTN7sMO.jpg?1

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Spuninmo

· #44 · Nov 20, 2018

Heres the declassified Iranian small arms production info I found. https://fas.org/irp/world/iran/smallarms.pdf

Lot of info....Theres also a guy on FB that served a few tours over in the sandbox that had some pretty good info on the domestically produced AKs they had. He apparently met some friendly border guys and they tried out each others weapons. Ill see if I can find his name for you.

frs88

· #45 · Nov 21, 2018

I found some photos of iranian ak´s on the internet and i il post them here.

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Story

· #46 · Jan 11, 2019

Recycling by Paris.

France on Tuesday, December 11 handed over 1,400 AK-47 assault rifles and three amphibious vehicles to the Central African Republic to shore up its beleaguered armed forces. French Defence Minister Florence Parly oversaw the handover at a ceremony at M’Polo military base in the capital Bangui. French officials said the 1,400 guns are a gift.

In a November 2016 report, CAR said the seizure included 2,000 new-condition AKM-pattern assault rifles characteristic of Iranian manufacture and that the “weight of evidence” indicated that Iran was the likely source and Somalia and/or Yemen the intended destinations.

https://thedefensepost.com/2018/12/...dU6Fr08JAnIpAiDumRACuXOCrFMjGOsH8U_biQmIru1Q0

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Story

· #47 · Jan 14, 2019

2016 intercepted cache
https://news.usni.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/160331-N-KL526-359.jpg

from https://news.usni.org/2016/04/04/u-s-navy-seizes-suspected-iranian-arms-shipment-bound-for-yemen

Story

· #48 · Apr 5, 2019

From this article on the USNavy intercept -
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/mideas...possible-iranian-arms-seized-us-yemen-n924791

a nice Hi-Rez
https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/news...bf8d34d99fd7b4905dcfb.nbcnews-fp-1200-630.jpg

Any details strike y'all as particularly Iranian?

I'd look at them and in my ignorance just shrug, think Norinco MAK-90 converted to UF...

scottyb

· #49 · Apr 5, 2019 (Edited)

Tried to look at the news article but the irony is their anti ad blocker blocks me.

Story

· #50 · Apr 5, 2019

scottyb said:
Tried to look at pics but the irony is their anti ad blocker blocks me.

Here's a crop so you can get the jist of the pile.

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scottyb

· #51 · Apr 5, 2019

Those look Chinese to me.

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Story

· #52 · Apr 5, 2019

scottyb said:
Those look Chinese to me.

Exactly, but if you got back to the beginning of this thread the Iranians went Chinese-style.
Can't find a single pic showing the trunnion and selector markings.
https://cdn.athlonoutdoors.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2018/08/Navy-Vessel-AK-47-Rifles-1.jpg

Mr. Scratch

· #53 · Apr 5, 2019

So looking at some of the (possible) Iranian AKs with the folding bayonet pics - even the wood looks the same as on the Chinese guns.

I've got a set of, what I previously assumed to be Chinese folding bayo Type-56, furniture that came back from Iraq during Gulf War 1.0. Now I'm wondering if there is a possibility that they might have come off an Iran/Iraq War captured Iranian AK, pressed into Iraqi service. Any guesses as to how one might tell the diff?

I've been considering putting these together on a Chinese kit build. But if I have the excuse to build an Iranian model, I might take that instead.

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Story

· #54 · Apr 8, 2019

Iranian Revolutionary Guards

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Story

· #55 · Apr 11, 2019

Iranian KL/KLS

https://twitter.com/Silah_Report/status/1116070967242055680

Mr. Scratch

· #56 · May 17, 2019

Found an image of an Iraqi AK receiver from an AK captured in Syria. No trunnion markings, serial # engraved just below trunnion.

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ziffster420

· #57 · May 17, 2019

Iranian ak have hood fsb, no threads

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Ashfaq Shah

· #58 · May 25, 2019

Being a Pakistani sharing border with Iran, I had been to Iran border a couple of times and you won't believe they had AMD's, Chinese, Hungarian front foregrip & Russian AK's. Now I don't know either they make clones in Iran or import them from the respective countries. But one thing was common all of their ak furniture was mostly in black colour.

Mr. Scratch

· #59 · Aug 19, 2020 (Edited)

Here is a close-up of the markings on the guns seized by the USS Jason Dunham in the previously mentioned raid, and also in possession of an Iran-backed Yemeni arms dealer

Note they have markings that would initially indicate a Chinese origin, but those markings are mechanically engraved on the RSB instead of rolled on the trunnion as we would expect of a Chinese gun. Authentic Chinese markings I just haven't seen before? Or billboarded onto a domestically-made rifle by the Iranians to throw inspectors off the scent of their actual origin?

Also, mechanically-engraved 8-digit serial number beginning in 6 on both rifles.

www.dailymaverick.co.za

OP-ED: Evidence suggests Iranian weapons being trafficked by criminal networks into the Horn of Africa

The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime has uncovered evidence suggesting that Iranian weapons supplied to Houthi insurgents in Yemen are being trafficked by criminal networks into the Horn of Africa.

www.dailymaverick.co.za

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Slurms MacKenzie

· #60 · Aug 19, 2020

I do believe that those are modern Chinese export markings. Pretty cool though, you don't see that too often.

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