The all new AK 12 Kalashnikov

[Toureg89]

The meaning it that it is Pitcanny rail modular for ACOGs, night sights, flashing strobe lights, and all of the other crap that people hang off of their rifles.

It fires the standard Russian 5.45mm round.

thats what i meant. on my last ak47, it took 20 minutes to swap out the wooden hand guard for a railed one. seems pretty "modular" to me... (for a 400$ or less rifle)

[Steve-in-NY]

So... It's an AK74 with rails?

[Pericles]

So... It's an AK74 with rails?

Essentially - also trying to make mag changes less of a pain / higher capacity so not as frequent changes. The idea is to try to have a competitive infantry rifle with same capabilities as Colt / HK / FN / SIG products.

If you want to see where small arms are, look at who the Russians copy. The AK-47 was a modified copy of the German StG 44, while this AK is modifying the upper off of the western arms makers designs.