Even in the 1990's in the US, the closest you could get to a Russian-made AK was the Saiga Sporting Rifle with a 10-round magazine. It was made by Izhmash and based on an AK-103 receiver.   The trigger was moved rearwards using a linkage and the rifle could not accept AK magazines without modification to either the rifle or the magazines.  It came in 16" and 20" barrel versions.  When you see ads about a "converted Saiga," this is what they started with.   They sold for $199, which Max assured us is below production cost.

Molot rifles somehow dodged the ban for long time being based on RPK receiver

As sold in US

https://fimegroup.com/rifle/

It seems Snake island battle was very expensive for both sides, while at the time Ukraine did not acknowledge major loses so far its bit by bit it racking up to multiple attack jets , helicopters , patrol boats and landing parties 

The new revelation is that Caesar artillery pieces were the major player in making the Snake Island untenable to defend and also 2 of them were lost in that battle.

They were firing literally from the beach onto Snake Island.

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First vid of Shahed/Geran2 launches

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The Molot rifles that were imported were also sporsterized (although less so than Saigas) and could not take AK mags.   If you read the details, most the rifles in the linked website have been converted from their original condition, some with US barrels and enough parts to meet current US regulations.   Pretty much as soon as they were modified to take AK mags, they had to be further modified with enough US made parts to become legal again.  Converting AK-based rifles with US parts is now a major American pastime.  The site also notes that the base rifles can no longer be imported.  This is how they originally looked:

17thfabn said:

The modified Maxim looks very bulky. Maybe best to leave it as it was and just add optics?

In its original format, the Russian Maxim is extremely heavy, better suited to firing from a fixed position.

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Ukrainian servicemen dragging Maxim machine guns | #UkraineWar | #Russia | #Ukraine |

Also, the original version is a water-cooled weapon, which complicates logistics and increases the weight.

I think the reason the modified Maxim looks so bulky is because of the relatively poor video quality.

Here is a better view with higher resolution.  IMO, it does not look much bulkier than the M1919A6.

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Maxim light machine gun. Part five.

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Of course it would be simpler and easier to not do the air-cooled conversion, as per this modified Maxim:

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I guess it boils down to whether -- and how much -- importance is placed on reducing the soldier's load.

Someone had a Bayraktar TB2 do a low pass over Kiev  ending in a shootdown .

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Ukraine air defence shoot down drone over Kiev. Bayraktar TB2, Ukrainian drone. @ATPGeo

Weird / cool RPG Mortar MLRS type device being employed. I don't really get why this exists vs just a mortar, but its cool.

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More broadly there have been a number of RPG launched mortars from the shoulder as a sort of direct fire frag round. Apparently these are the adapters that attach the mortar shell to the RPG rocket

Don't have a mortar and/or rounds for one, but have plenty of RPGs?

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Don't have a mortar, but have plenty of rounds for one and plenty of RPGs?