IOF finally develops AK-47 variant

[essdee1972]

Pran, I wasn't commenting on your post. I could understand you were not praising IOF, quite the contrary. My reaction was to the tone and language of the article.

Sorry if I sounded otherwise!

[pran80]

Hey Essdee no worries bro, chill.

Thanks

[saleem]

this rifle variant is called the AKM and atleast 1 has been issued to every policestation

[Sakobav]

IOF copycat Madness starts again... same results dont keep high hopes

[xl_target]

Differences between the AK47 and the AKM
(pretty much most of what we call AK47's nowadays are actually AKM's)

AKM: This is a popular variant of the AK family. This was created as an improvement of the original AK-47 design. The letter M in the name "AKM" stands for Modernizirovanniy, which is the Russian word for "modernized." The AKM design was developed in the 1950s and finally was approved for full production in 1959. It fires the same 7.62x39 mm as the AK-47 for backward compatibility. However, the design was much revised and enhanced from the original AK-47 to allow it to be mass-produced. The Soviets acquired modern mass production technologies from captured German engineers (including Hugo Schmeisser, the designer of the StG-44) and used those on the AKM. Among some of its improvements:

Replacement of the milled receiver with a receiver made out of stamped sheet steel. Machining is a lot slower process than using a press to stamp parts. Hence, use of stamped parts made it much faster to produce AKMs.

Using rivets instead of welds on the receiver, in order to speed up production.

Improvements to barrel, gas ports etc. to speed up manufacturing and enhance reliability

Weight reduction of approximately 1 kg. (2.2. pounds)

Retains the chrome lined barrel and chamber of the AK-47 Type-2 variant, but the barrel is pressed and pinned to the receiver, instead of the AK-47 which has a threaded barrel that is screwed into the receiver.

The barrel is the first in the AK family to have a slant compensator to reduce rifle climb, when shooting in automatic mode.

Gas relief ports are moved forward to the gas block, instead of the gas tube.

Bolt carrier was lightened slightly. The wooden stocks were also hollowed out as well, in order to reduce more weight.

Sights on an AKM are calibrated to go up to 1000 meters, whereas AK-47s are only calibrated to go up to 800 meters.

Changes to the metal treatment applied. The AKM is parkerized instead of blued like the AK-47.

Uses modified spring and trigger assembly for better safety. The AKM fires in automatic mode only when the bolt is fully locked. The new trigger assembly also reduces "trigger bounce" and has a hammer release delay device to delay the release of the hammer by a few microseconds in automatic firing mode. The hammer release delay mechanism is sometimes incorrectly called a "rate reducer" by some people, but it doesn't appreciably change the cyclic rate of fire. Instead it allows the bolt group to settle in the forwardmost position after returning into the battery.

Info from HERE