Tabuk - Iraqi copy of the Soviet Kalashnikov assault rifle

The countries of the Middle East are among the leaders in the world in terms of the prevalence of Soviet (Russian) infantry weapons. Moreover, it turns out that this weapon serves both government forces and those with whom they are fighting. This kind of situation manifests itself, for example, in Iraq. And here it is important to note that in this country, at one time, its own production of copies of Kalashnikov assault rifles was established.

The fact that there are Iraqi Kalash’s and how high quality they are is reflected in the video by the expert of the Russian concern Vladimir Onokoy. Iraqi Kalashnikov assault rifles, like Chinese with American ones, Onokoi are among the worst in the world. At the same time, according to experts, the Iraqi occupy the 4th place in this list.

In fact, we are talking about the Yugoslav versions of Kalashnikov assault rifles. It was the Yugoslavs who created the production of these small arms in Iraq, which was originally called Tabuk.

Initially, the Tabuki had a fairly high quality, but with the deterioration of the economic situation, this quality also steadily worsened. And the decline in the quality of weapons led to difficulties in its use.

A detailed analysis of Iraqi AKs is presented in a video on Kalashnikov’s YouTube channel:

Comments

[1959ain]

Kalashnikov is our real left-hander

[beeper]

That's right, comrade aka 1959ain, MTK is our real Russian Lefty!
Congratulations on your return to duty!

[Spektr]

Weapon genius! Without special education and without special requests, he created a world masterpiece.

[beeper]

Genius is the same 1% talent + 99% hard work, it's like cutting - "opening the stone" of a diamond into a precious diamond!
Our Mikhail Timofeevich has his own natural sharpness and technical abilities (almost the same as the famous American self-taught gunsmith Moses Browning from a Mormon family of many children and friendly, a family of technicians and Browning gunsmiths ), from his youth he developed, disassembling and delving into the device of the mechanisms he came across, mainly agricultural mechanization - collective farm seeders, reapers, a steam locomotive, the first tractors and smaller ones, he got a rusty revolver for repairs, so from a young age the future "MikhTim" persistently engaged in self-education (not "crusts" for the sake of presenting "at the place of demand", but - "for myself").
He especially emphasized the importance of the books and atlases of V.G. Fedorov's drawings on weapons and "rifle automation" read in the hospital for his weapons education (also a very interesting little book illustrating advanced views on the automation of small arms at the beginning of the last century - I think that her, from those Fedorov, in many ways still theoretical, views, MTK literally got the idea, extremely low-tech - during the development of production, which gave a large percentage of marriage and ruined barrels, an inclined gas outlet for its early AK assault rifles and further AKM, from which it succeeded leave with the creation of the AK-74) ", from the abandoned library of the evacuated aviation institute that was there ...

Yes, I myself began my technical self-education in artillery in high school, under the influence of:
1). stories and theoretical explanations of the father (a design engineer and a military artillery officer) about the design, principles and methods of firing from cannons and howitzers, the front-line use of various types of artillery and mortars, as well as military-technical publications of the Tekhnika-Molodyozh magazine, and
2). impressed by the interview with M.T. Kalashnikov with the words that he never stops his self-education, constantly reads and keeps on his desktop textbooks and reference books on plumbing, various types of machining, casting, stamping, machine parts, compromising materials ... and his promise personally shake hands with someone who can surpass the AK and make the machine gun even easier and better for our Soviet Army!

The MTK, during regular trips to the troops that received Kalashnikov assault rifles, was always interested in the opinion of ordinary soldiers and their proposals for improving the AK, many of which were seriously worked out and implemented "into the series".
Kalashnikov very warmly recalled NIIPSMVO, his most experienced team of gunsmiths and testers, a unique, rich, collection of experienced and serial small arms from all countries, where he learned a lot and professionally improved on the design path.
He spoke warmly about his senior colleague and fellow talented gunsmith Aleksey Ivanovich Sudaev, who generously shared with the young sergeant, a novice designer, his academic knowledge, rich experience in creating and implementing new models of small arms and his advanced conceptual views (not outdated so far! ) on the device of automatic weapons, as well as design approaches in ensuring its reliable operation and operation in the army!

So Mikhail Timofeevich was very professionally "specially self-educated" and his "demands", demands on himself, were very high - "he kept the bar high"! Yes, they are talking about the same, created under his leadership and with his participation, the famous "families of weapons" AK and PC!

[Gunxnumx]

I remembered the wonderful book by Latukhin, "The God of War", read in my distant childhood

[beeper]

I had it, for young people who are interested in artillery, everything is clearly and clearly described (the author did not even forget the shells with plastic explosives and schematically showed the principle of armor-piercing action - then we did not have such, but they were in the ammunition of the British Chieftain tank )!
But then it, like many other books of my home library and many years of filing "Tekhnika-Molodezhi", literally for a penny, handed over to "Second-hand bookseller". What I later regretted. I downloaded it from the Web already in electronic form when I reread it.
At the end of this book were the addresses of all artillery schools of the Union!
The same series, in my opinion, from the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, were books about aviation (including aviation armament - for the first time it was in it that I saw detailed schemes of how the Maxim machine gun parts work when firing) and others.

[The leader of the Redskins]

It turns out that you can kill the unkillable ... Even at the time of production!

[Spektr]

If the hands do not grow from there or are not imprisoned in the subject, then production will not work. Even if you transfer 100% technology. So not all cats have Shrovetide.

[Lamata]

Do you have a wooden forearm? and where they took the material. Did the yugis supply?

[ssergey1978]

Quote: Lamata

Do you have a wooden forearm? and where they took the material. Did the yugis supply?

Plywood probably. What's the problem? No plywood in Iraq?

[Lamata]

in Iraq with forests and a tree is not ice.

[Lamata]

cool, handguard from plywood)))) then the whole aptomat from glued plywood to be mastered and such a military unit will turn out Pinocchio

[ssergey1978]

Glued Plywood is used on SCS and AK, but you did not know?

[Lamata]

no, I didn’t. thank

[About 2]

Not only were samples of both of them with solid wood butts of not only foreign but also Soviet-made.

[Ravil_Asnafovich]

Hmm, born to crawl, can’t fly.

[Mavrikiy]

Yes, soon for the word "Kalashnikov" will start to hit in the face. So many "manufacturers and all have licenses and supervision from the licensor.

[martin-159]

It would be enough links to the video in YouTube.