Zastava M70B
Template:Linkless The M70AB2 is the Yugoslavian designation for a Kalashnikov based rifle. It has a stock that folds underneath the weapon making it very compact and useful for vehicle based personnel.
It is a shoulder fired, magazine fed, air cooled rifle capable of semi automatic or fully automatic fire. As such, in the United States, the weapon is a machine gun and a controlled item.
Civilian versions of the rifle are available to the public. Generally these rifle are made on a US-produced receiver and a mix of surplus and newly manufactured parts. They are not capable of fully automatic fire.
It uses a 30 round detachable box magazine. Other capacities may be used.
It is equipped with a grenade launcher sight, but it cannot launch grenades without the grenade launcher attachment and a grenade blank cartridge. When the sight is raised, it cuts off the gas supply to the piston, allowing the full force of the grenade firing blank to enact on the grenade, and preventing the weapon from cycling.
The bore is not chrome lined which is unusual for a modern Kalashnikov. The (possible) reason for this is that Yugoslavia did not have the chromium supplies needed. Even though they were a Communist country, they had broken ties with the Soviet Union in the late 1940's and would not have had access to the Soviets supply.
Additionally, the rifle features a 50% thicker reciever than the standard Kalashnikov, similar to the RPK light machine gun, making this rifle generally more accurate than the standard AKM.
It has folding night sights.
The design was also sold to Iraq in the '80s, and was developed and issued as the Tabuk rifle.
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Semi-automatic version of the Yugoslavian M70ab2, made for civilian use
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Yugoslavian M70ab2, stock folded
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Grenade sights raised
