![]() AR-M4SF - extremely short development of the AKSU with red dot sight, provision to mount a night vision or laser sight.AR-M2 / AR-M2F - improved AK-47 copy like the AR-M1/AR-M1F, but with a shortened barrel, AKS-74U front sight base and muzzle booster/flash suppressor hybrid.AR-M1 / AR-M1F - improved AK-47 copy with an AK-74 front sight base, flash suppressor, black polymer stock set, luminous spots on the iron sights and a rail for mounting optics.A derivative of the AKKS is also offered for export as the ARF. Their receivers are milled, rather than stamped, unlike other modernized AK derivatives, and are virtually indistinguishable from those of the early Type 3 pattern Soviet AK. The AR pattern rifles are basically AKKs with different furniture and a few unique features, such as polymer stocks and handguards, as well as several external parts copied directly from the AK-74 including new flash hiders, sights, gas blocks, bayonet mountings and bayonets. Arsenal offered several modernized variants of the AKK for export, which were rebranded as the AR series. Īfter the dissolution of the People's Republic of Bulgaria in the early 1990s, the Kazanlak factory became a joint-stock company known as Arsenal AD. A derivative with a folding stock was also produced under license as the AKKS. Kalashnikov rifles assembled and later manufactured in Kazanlak received the designation AKK. By the mid 1960s, the Kazanlak facility was equipped to begin licensed production of the weapon type and its associated parts. Assembly of AK-47s, initially from imported Soviet parts, began at the state arsenal in Kazanlak. ![]() ![]() However, by the early 1960s, the Bulgarian government became interested in producing the AK-47 domestically. The AR-M1 can be chambered for both the 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×39mm cartridges.ĭuring the 1950s, the Bulgarian People's Army was equipped primarily with AK-47s imported from the Soviet Union. It is a modernized Bulgarian derivative of the AKK, which itself is based on the Soviet AK-47 (specifically Type 3). The AR-M1, also known as AK-47M1, is a Bulgarian assault rifle designed primarily for export. ![]()
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