Tabuk Rifle-7.62 x 39mm

[recon]

Coming soon!
http://www.tworiversarms.com/Rifles.html

http://www.tworiversarms.com/Tabuk.htm

It's being discussed here also.
http://www.theakforum.net/phpBB3/vie...?f=53&t=122541

[romak10/63UF]

Very nice ! i need prices....

[FunkyPertwee]

Well if I get a Tabuk and a VZ58 I'll have the complete Iraqi small arms playset. I should have gotten a Hakim pistol a few years ago when they were cheap, just to round it out even more.

[Schuetzenman]

They sure look to have copied the Yugoslave AK types.

[recon]

That was my first impression of these.

[Wild Bill]

The Serbians helped them build them.

[AKTexas]

Does not look like the Tabuk I had in mind.

[El Laton Caliente]

They sure look to have copied the Yugoslave AK types.

They bought the machinery from the Yugo factory...

[gpwasr10]

They bought the machinery from the Yugo factory...

I hear Zastava set a "turn key" factory up for them...

Still though, if you are going to use Kalashnikovs, it's hard to beat a M-70.

[bovver]

from recons link.

Capitalizing on the favorable relationship with Yugoslavia, Iraqi technicians secured cooperation with The Zastava Arms Factory in Kragujevac, near Belgrade. By 1980, Iraq purchased tooling and machinery to establish its own factory near Baghdad under license from Zastava with aid from Yugoslavian workers and technicians. The main factory opened east of Bi'r Musammad, Babil, Iraq. The result was the introduction of AK-type rifles of excellent quality in a country not previously known for superior domestically produced weapons. The Iraqi produced AKM copies of the Yugoslavian M70B1 and M70AB2 rifles became known as the 'Tabuk.'