10-07-2011, 03:00 AM
stanc Wrote:An interesting possibility. Wouldn't it be ironic if 6.5 Grendel were to be ignored by the US armed forces, only to be adopted by the Russian military?
The Russians officially adopted the AN-94 Abakan assault rifle in 1986. Most Russian soldiers don't even know what it is. They've prototyped a lot of things, but they rarely go into mass-production, unless they're making them for another country...or that country buys the licensing with shared components made in Russia. Venezuela entered into one of these agreements so they could have an out-dated Russian small arms factory making AK-100 series there.