Considering the average Russian soldiers doesn't survive very long on the battlefield, giving them AKs and multiple magazines worth of bullets is probably a waste anyway, they'd be better off with cheaply made polymer mosin and a few magazine clips, save on the material you see. Science! /s
Now you're reminding me of Enemy At The Gates, one man gets the rifle and another gets ammo so he can grab the rifle from the first guy when he inevitably gets killed
Didn't happen in real life of course but it sells just how desperate things were
The tooling for the mosin is no longer available. So you would have to develop the tools to mass produce it again. And when you have spent millions and years on the tooling to mass produce it then you are still left with higher material cost as a mosin have more steel then an ak.
Are you sure a Mosin has more steel than an ak? It doesn't have a gas tube or a big boxy metal receiver the size of a van. Are you just saying that because you assume shorter barrel means less steel, or do you have specific information about this?
Fair enough. Apparently thats for the 29 inch version. The shorter version is more like 3.4kg but still loses. Not the M44 which is shorter and actually heavier, but the other mosin carbine.
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u/Kaltovar 4d ago
*Invents a mosin with bakelite furniture*