Sargeant Smash wrote: Plain Ak-47 is the best, or the akm-47 same gun just easier to produce.
That is simplifying it way too much, the AKM (or AK-59) has many enhancements over the 47, important ones at that, even if the two models do look very similar.
The most obious one is ofcourse the Stamped reciver, the old milled reciver was never planned, and it was never a good idea either, the first AK-47's where actually produced with a 2 piece Stamped reciver with milled inserts, but the way they designed the thing was a big mistake, they didn't streangthen the Stamped part enough, so the two halves started coming apart when the gun was subjected to the hard reallity of beeing issued to conscripts.
To avoid the gun beeing a compleate failure, they had to act fast, and made an all milled reciver, as present on all 2'nd and 3'rd generation 47's.
But the cost and production time of that reciver was unacceptable to the USSR, so in the mid 1950's trials where held to find a replacement for the AK-47, so the AK had to be redesigned or it would have died, and they came up with the new Stamped reciver with internal milled inserts, this design was not only cheaper and faster to build, it was stronger and much lighter too, an AKM is allmost 1kg lighter than a 47.
But to beat the competition from the Korobov, a technically better rifle, the AKM would have to be even better still, so alot of things saw changes, the Bayonet lug was much improoved, a Recoil compensator was fitted to the muzzle, the front grips got new "Bulges" that gave a better grip on the weapon, the stock and stock assembly where improoved, so the stock was inline with the barrel greatly redusing felt recoil, and redundant little parts where done away with.
The AKM then is not only cheaper than the 47, it is lighter, stronger and has allmost half the recoil, it is much better in full-auto mode.
Despite all this, the Korobov TKB-517 was still a better rifle, but the AKM was a big enough improovement over the 47 that the USSR choose it as their new weapon, since troops would allready know how to strip, use and maintain it, and the design is still in mass production to this day, whereas the 47 is now only made as a semi-auto novelty to civilian shooters.
As for implimentation into BW, that giganto gen-2 night vision scope is a bad idea, if it must have any optics, and i'd prefer it didn't, then i would suggest modelling it on the PK-A red-dot scope, its modern and usefull, but unlike the Cobra, it still looks Soviet and AK'ish, having a look not too disimilar to the PSO-2 scope.
Something based on the AK-74M or the AK-103 would ofcourse make alot of sense, but i think most of us would really enjoy something that looks more like an AKM, AK's with wooden furniture just look right.
Perhabs an AKM with a 74 style Recoil compensator, and a 74 Bayonet.
Im not too sure about a GP-30 grenade launcher though, that would just make it too similar to the M-50 in my opinion, i'd much rather set it apart by giving it a 75 round Drum.
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<- Scope aim reticle
<- 5,45x39 caliber rounds
<- VOG-25P 40mm jumping fragmentation grenade (after contact with ground jumps up like BX-5 mine and explode)
<- AN-94 + GP-30 Grenade Launcher
