(Don't know why your are shouting/using caps)
As for the accuracy thing, uhm, no, that is not what I said. AKs are vaunted for their reliability, but even among the tested Russian rifles are of average performance. But cheap. Not in the last place because available from numerous producers in numerous countries (30 to be exact).
A T-54/55 tank or even a basic T-72 is also cheap and widely available. But that doesn't make them good tanks. You are saying why bother with a T-90 or Western tanks?
If fighting takes place within yards, then automatic shotguns and submachine guns might well be more appropriate than assault rifles. You certainly wouldn't need the SVD support rifle either, or the RPK machine gun, would you. That is reasoned to simple, obviously.
You talk about 'western rifles' as if they are all one family, rather than distinct and unique guns, with individual development lineages. As if they ALL suffer stoppages (not!).
Durability, low production cost, availability and ease of use are the features, which assured AK-47 global success. Known AK-47 drawbacks are:
- Low accuracy. You're not going to be dropping targets at 350m with it. Period. This is due to its low muzzle velocity of 2,340 fps. (710 meters per second), which results in a looping trajectory that requires a clumsy adjustment for accuracy at ranges beyond 300 meters. It is primarily a 'spray and pray' gun.
- It has rather significant recoil, which is the price paid for the stopping power of the relatively large round.
- the ammunition is relatively expensive and heavy (so for a given weight fewer rounds can be carried, which could be a problem for people that spray and pray in an extended fight and with limited resupply).
- the gun itself is heavy compared to other firearms, esp. those that employ alloys and polymers.
- the gun is especially susceptible to over-heating in full automatic mode andf sometimes even in extended semi-automatic mode
- the gun has a unusually high rate of ‘cook-offs’ (chambered rounds that go off because of the over-heating) which can be quite hazardous the person using it.
Also, I don't know where you get the idea than 'western ' assault rifles for 5000-12000 dollar? And AKs between 500 and 1000 dollar.
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