HIT is stuck with the AK Program like a cat on a tin roof on the hottest summer day.
NORINCO is currently in no mood to give Army ToT on the VT4 considering the mess they made of the AK manufacturing program
This is the problem when you have military men with no business background handle operation(s). They should've delegated this to private sector and set up a consortium of sorts with military involved on the design and recommendation side and logistics and manufacturing in competent civilian hands.