Washington Post: U.S. special Forces requests to develop analogues of Russian weapons

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Washington Post: Спецназ США просит разработать аналоги российского оружия

The special operations command (CSR) of the armed forces of the United States asked the American arms company to start development and production of analogues of Russian small arms. This was reported on Friday the newspaper The Washington Post.

“Exercising control over most of the elite units of America, CSR is exploring the possibility of developing and manufacturing by American companies models of Russian weapons similar to the AK-47, which is commonly used in areas of hostilities”, – the newspaper notes.

According to him, the command addressed to the companies with request for development of “non-standard types of weapons and ammunition.” “We are studying the capacity and capability of American industry to produce the kinds of weapons that are used by many of our foreign partners”, – told the newspaper the representative of the CSR Matt Allen.

At the request of the command of the special forces included such weapons as “famous throughout the world automatic AK-47, Dragunov sniper rifle, as well as “the Russian easel and light machine guns and 14.5 mm machine guns aircraft”, the newspaper said.

Complex service of American weapons

One of the reasons for this decision called the publication of the problems faced by soldiers of the armed forces in the middle East that receive weapons from the United States. “The American weapons makes these men the order to other groups,” reads the article.

Another reason is considered to be “complex service of the American weapons.” Allen considers “proper use of taxpayers ‘money” to develop weapons “that need American partners to combat the extremists and they know how to appeal and how to repair it”. “If the weapons were produced in the United States, the government could carefully control its production and distribution,” says the author, a former marine Thomas Gibbons-Neff.

In July 2014 against concern Kalashnikov” – the largest Russian manufacturer of small arms – the US government and Canada imposed sanctions that included the freezing of assets and a ban on conducting transactions. Because of the sanctions, the company was forced to suspend the supply of products to these countries.

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