The advantage of these new 'modular' rifle designs - e.g. BREN, SCAR, ARX, etc - is that they can be built, and even modified, for different rounds. Switching the CZ-807 between 5.56 and 7.62x39 involves swapping barrel assembly, bolt and firing pin. The supply channel advantage is that POF doesn't need to embrace two or three rifle platforms, but simply produce one platform with the requisite parts for each round as required by the end-user.
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It will be interesting to see if CZ 807 (x51) retains the simple caliber conversion of its 5.56 NATO & 7.62 Soviet versions.
Few months back, I asked the CZ official to provide a pic of x51 CZ 807 for heaven's sake. He said it is not part of our 'marketing strategy' to release pics before the rifle is officially unveiled (at an event).
CZ seems to have taken care to ensure the x51 variant is not pictured in Pakistan. I have seen several pics of CZ 807 in Pakistan. None of them was 7.62x51mm.
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