Slavaboos please explain

>>31608232
Vietnam capture.

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>>31608232
explain what OP? You've never seen Vietnam GI's posing with AK's? Same idea here.

>>31608248
More likely Afghan capture.

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>>31608297
Why do you say that? As far as i know, there were far more M16s captured in Vietnam, as afghans were more often armed with chinese AKs by the CIA than M16s

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>>31608341
A gun captured in Vietnam in the 60s can pop up later in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Georgia, etc.

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Amerifats please explain

>>31608341
>Why do you say that? As far as i know, there were far more M16s captured in Vietnam, as afghans were more often armed with chinese AKs by the CIA than M16s

Quite a lot of M16's with not that much of use around south-eastern Asia in early 80's. Some people might have made bunch of money to sell those to Pakistani or Saudi-Arabian gentlemen.

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From Chechnya. How did this happen?

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One more

>>31608248
no
>>31608297
no

This is a photo from the collection of Lieutenant Alexander N. Plyusnin (ret.)
The APC in the background is a BTR-70; the photo was probably taken between 25 December and 31 December 1979. if my memory serves, between March and October. Helmets are SSh-68s; the standard Warsaw Pact helmet of the era.
The photo comes from a special activities unit in the USSRs KGB. This unit was tasked with infiltrating, assaulting and capturing the capital building of Afghanistan. 48 total operators took part; 24 from detachment "Thunder" or "Alfa" (sources conflict on which it was being called at the time; it is the predecessor to Alfa) and 24 from group "Zenit". They were all part of the overarching KGBs Spetsnaz, and were taking part in Operation Storm-333; the first blow to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

>>31610928

The unit was transported in five BMP(-1s) (Alfa) and four BTR-70s(Zenit). At 1900 hours 27 December 1979 the unit initiated assault on the Afghan palace and killed between 200 and 400 of those inside., including president Hafizullah Amin.
The M16, I am uncertain of its origins. It may have been a capture or it may have been issued under the impression somewhere along the line it could be a false flag operation. KGB operators almost always preferred to use Kalashnikov pattern weapons or domestic weapons due to a long standing familiarity with them. The M16 however was nothing new to the Soviets; the first made to to Tula arms and Izhvesk mechanical as early as 1965 and were actually revese manufactured as early as the 1970s; mostly for testing purposes. KGB operators were trained on multiple weapons systems, including OPFOR weapons like the M1911, M16, G3 and FN FAL.
There exist a few photos of Soviet forces with M16s in Afghanistan but very few of these were ever issued due to the nature of Soviet doctrine, weapons and troops. It wasn't a situation like the US ran into in Vietnam with teething issues of the earliest model M16s and training in proper maintenance that contributed to some sort of unreliable sentiment, or the need to capture enemy ammunition for LRRPs.

>>31610928
>>31610940

Good info man, thanks