Captured AK-74s
Wouldn't it make more sense to...
- sell the things in Europe, closer to any number of ready sources of 5.45x39 WP ammo (If not captured, then from most nations close at hand across Africa)?
- Just retool a factory in the US to manufacture 5.45x39mm WP? Not as labor intensive. I know there's a war on but manufacturing ammo is easer than manufacturing new weapons. The Germans did something similar in WW2 - making 76.2mm AT shells for a crap load of Russian AT guns captured in 1941 (re-tooling a factory was easier than manufacturing the same number of German 75mm AT guns, which used different ammo).
Put the factory in Seattle and you almost have a reason for the Russians to want to advance down the coast from Alaska - "400 more kilometers, comrades, and you will have more ammo than you can shoot off in your lifetime!"
Uncle Ted
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