Iraqi Tabuk sniper rifles

Hi again, everybody. My next work by Foreign Kalashnikovs will not show you families of assault rifles with carbines, submachine guns, and light machine guns, as I have been doing in my previous works. What I will show you today are these Iraqi semi-automatic sniper rifles called Tabuk which, unlike the rest of the foreign versions that you have been seeing in my gallery, these weapons are currently considered a rarity of Kalashnikov rifles around the world. But the Tabuk rifles are derived from the Yugoslav (currently Serbian) Zastava M70 assault rifles and, from 1978 until today, are the standard sniper rifles of the Iraqi elite police and some military units from the same country. Although there have also been a few Tabuk rifles used by the military, militiamen, paramilitaries, guerrillas, insurgents, terrorists, gangsters and gangsters, both Iraqis, Lebanese and Jordanians. As well as a few Tabuk rifles used by snipers from all sides in the Syrian Civil War have also been seen. The story of the origin of Tabuk sniper rifles came out as follows: In the early 1970s, when the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein bought the licenses and all the machinery necessary to manufacture the former Soviet Union and other communist countries the AK-47 assault rifles, AKM and other Russian-Soviet weapons in Iraq, also bought from the former Yugoslavia the Zastava M70 assault rifles and almost all their variants to equip the Iraqi police forces with them. This was clearly because the Iraqis were apparently aware that Yugoslav rifles, despite being much more susceptible to corrosion and having a much shorter lifespan than that of a Soviet Kalashnikov rifle, were ideal weapons for urban fighting. When the Iraqi law enforcement authorities realized that the Yugoslav Zastava M70 assault rifles had greater range and precision than the original Kalashnikov rifles, the Iraqi arms manufacturing company Establishments Al-Qadissiya decided to take full advantage of Yugoslav weapons by designing and creating a rifle that could have vastly greater effective range and precision than the original Zastava M70 rifle has. And so the Tabuk semi-automatic sniper rifle was created, a weapon that is similar to the Yugoslav Zastava M70, but with a much longer barrel and incorporates in its mouth a flame arrester identical to that of the Soviet Dragunov semi-automatic sniper rifle. The wooden stock of the Iraqi rifle is "hollowed out", that is to say, the piece is designed and manufactured in such a way that said stock forms a kind of "triangular ring" and incorporates a wooden support at the top that allows the user to aim the weapon in a much more comfortable and effective way, especially if the user is handling the rifle in a "body to ground" position. Both the stock and the forearm of the Tabuk sniper rifle can be made of both teak wood and traditional wood from Soviet Kalashnikov rifles. And the telescopic sight of the Iraqi Tabuk rifle is identical to that of the Soviet Dragunov sniper rifle. The reason why Iraqi Tabuk sniper rifles are considered a rarity of Kalashnikov rifles around the world is because such weapons, even though their shots are as accurate as those of a Dragunov, have poor effective range of 600 meters. This distance is also reached and even surpassed by the bullets of numerous western weapons (be they carbines, assault rifles and machine guns of all kinds) and is nothing compared to the 800 meters that the bullets of the Soviet Dragunov sniper rifle reach. And just like with Serbian Zastava M70 assault rifles, Iraqi tabuk rifles are also corrosion-susceptible weapons and have a much shorter lifespan than an original Kalashnikov rifle, since the bore of its barrel and many Parts inside the mechanism drawer are also made of non-chrome steel. For this reason most snipers around the world prefer to use a Dragunov rifle or western sniper weapon more than these Iraqi versions of the Serbian Zastava M70, making the Tabuk sniper rifles, officially, only be used by snipers. Iraqi elite police. I hope you like my new work and as I always say, another cordial greeting. Until next time!