Poles in Liberia?

[Story]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030616/170/4eugx.html

Someone might want to grab this and post, these photos tend to disappear quick.

[Hootbro]

Very interesting picture. The magazine looks different.


http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20030616/i/1055793193.3355549791.jpg

[Story]

Uh, Hoot? It's a drum.... :)

[Hootbro]

Originally posted by Story
Uh, Hoot? It's a drum.... :)

Now that you say it, it clicks in my head and I see it also.:p The angle of the rifle in the picture kinda played trick on my eyes. I first thought it was one of the grenade launching mags but discounted it due to the probability of them actually having the correct grenades and launching blanks. Still intersting to see a unique peice of AK in a third world country. Sad part is the guy probably paid less than $50 dollars for it but would go for $300+ as a kit here.:D

[Story]

Two tales from Africa:

A) Captured AKs in Angola and Namibia often had the bayonets attached, even tho' hand-to-hand combat was extremely unlikely. The 'logic' was that the bayonet made the AK longer and therefore, 'more powerful'. :ak:

Perhaps that's the fighter's ju-ju we're looking at in this photo.

B) The magazine bases were often beat-up. Seems that the AK with magazine fitted was just the right height to make a field-expedient camp stool.

[recon]

Man I'am wearing glasse's and didn' see that! Drum go figure!;)

[Vis]

No,not Polish. Yugo maybe ???????????Kbkg wz.60/72 (http://hem2.passagen.se/dadkri/Kbkg60.htm)

[Vis]

Another one of these in Liberia, I think we have a trend going. It looks like they have the same granade launcher attachment. Maybe longer is better for them. The launcher is deffinitly not Polish. If that gun was a wz. 60, it would have a milled receiver. The government soldier below has a folder and I think it's stamped also. http://www.gunsnet.net/album/data/500/20380jojo-med.JPG :eek:

[mikeinkc]

Last pic looks like a yugo or possibly a Iraqi knockoff of a yugo. Looks like three vent holes in the handguard.

[GUNSMOKE]

Those are definately Yugoslav M-77's in x39.

[Negative Creep]

Look like Yugos to me.

Dig the guy in the first photo's bumble bee outfit, he even has a matching watch. Nice! :D

:rotflmao:

[Story]

More Yugos

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030714/1/3cin2i.html

[Vis]

More government soldiers with Yugo's, and I'm not sure what the guy on the right is holding. http://www.gunsnet.net/album/data/500/20380One_more.JPG :D

[Story]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030725/241/4sc4a.html

- also, they ARE Serbian AKs. I'll post the article on Monday.

[AK-fan*]

There seems to be alot of Yugo AK's in Liberia.

Story,
The ak in the link is not Yugoslavian, it's propobly Russian, Polish or Egyptian.

[Story]

AK-Fan,
Yeah, my bad for not making my post clearer - the drum was of interest, couldn't tell if it was an RPK or not. Serbian link on Monday.

Meanwhile, behind the AK and some ancient PK/PKS* (I think) - look at the dude's eyes. Good googly-moogly!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030725/241/4sfnc.html

Like somebody out of a Joseph Conrad novel....

FOOTNOTE: Different war, same WECSOGging of a PK. Guess they don't like the extra weight.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030712/241/4nwie.html

[AK-fan*]

Damn, that dude with the yellow eyes looks friendly. I wonder if he painted that Yugo ak yellow to match his eye? The machinegun is a PK without the flash-hider

More pics of Yugos from everyone's favorite vacation spot
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20030719/i/1058644859.3623968849.jpg
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20030628/mdf306931.jpg
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20030714/capt.sge.gyd76.140703003011.photo00.default-390x261.jpg

[recon]

Why is it that most of these people carring AK's don't have vest's or pouch's for extra mags? 30rd's and thats it? Run like hell after that? Strange but that has always bugged me!

[AK-fan*]

recon,
these guys are trained pros, one shot-one kill, they dont need more than a 30 rounder.
Why do you think some take off the rear stock or dont even shoulder their weapon when they fire, pure proffesionals.

[recon]

Yeah okay! :ak:

[Story]

http://photo.worldnews.com/PhotoArchive//uploaded/uploaded-31909_large.jpg
Smooooooooookin'

More on Serbian AKs in Liberia.

http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/20030730.asp