Albanian Automatiku Shqiptar rifle family

Hello everyone again, and here is my next work by Kalashnikovs Foreigners, which will show you this family of Albanian assault rifles which, as you can see in the image, are exact copies of the Chinese Norinco Type 56 rifle, which is the version China from the Soviet AK-47. But these assault rifles, from 1978 to 2013, were the standard weapons of the Albanian armed forces. Currently, such weapons are widely used in many countries around the world, including numerous fighters from all sides faced in the Syrian Civil War (as is the case with the original Type 56). Well, today I will show you the Automatiku Shqiptar model 56 assault rifles, (referring to the Norinco Type 56) also known as Ash-78 and Ash-82 locally. These weapons, manufactured for the first time in the former People's Socialist Republic of Albania and in 1978, are famous for including variants that, apparently, are only manufactured in the Balkan country. The story about its origin occurred as follows: During the 1960s, the former Soviet Union exported numerous AK-47, AKM, and other Soviet weapons to many other communist countries in the world, especially to those nations that were members of the Warsaw Pact of 1955, among which was the former People's Socialist Republic of Albania. When the Albanian government withdrew from the Warsaw Pact in 1968, the Soviet Union stopped exporting arms and ammunition to the Balkan country. For this reason, the Albanian government resorted to the arms trade with the People's Republic of China (thanks to a strong alliance that both countries began in 1960) so that the Asian country exported the Norinco Type 56 assault rifles to Albania. Chinese arms and ammunition supplies, (which were mostly local copies of Soviet armament) from 1978, Albanian arms manufacturing companies started to make unlicensed copies of Norinco Type 56 rifles under the name of Automatiku Shqiptar model 56, whose name means something like "Albanian rifle model 1956" in Albanian. And later, the Albanian weapons would be renamed Ash-78 and Ash-82. But at the same time, Albanian arms companies also developed numerous variant models of the Chinese Norinco Type 56 assault rifles to adapt such weapons both to combat in the different places, environments and terrain of Albania and to the tacticology and military doctrine of the forces Albanian navies. The Ash-78 Tip-1 assault rifles are exact copies of the Type 56-1 rifles, since, regardless of whether they have a fixed stock or folding stock, they incorporate their characteristic folding bayonet under the muzzle. While the Ash-82 rifles are copies of the Type 56 rifles, versions that lack such a folding bayonet. As for the Albanian variant models of the Chinese Norinco Type 56, there are five weapons, which are: The Ash-78 Tip-2 rifles, copies of the Ash-82 rifles that incorporate into the muzzle of the muzzle grenade launchers to shoot fire grenades. rifle. While the light machine gun version of the Ash-78 Tip-2 is almost identical to a Soviet RPK light machine gun, but based on the Norinco Type 56. The third Albanian variant of the Norinco type 56 is the Ash-78 Tip-3 rifle. , a possible sniper version of said weapon, since, in addition to incorporating the grenade launcher muzzle in the muzzle, the handguard and the barrel are much longer and includes a telescopic sight similar to that of the rifles on the mechanism box Iraqi Tabuk sniper, Soviet Dragunov, Romanian PSL and many other similar weapons. And the latest Albanian versions of Chinese rifles are (perhaps the most striking of all) the RDW-1 and RDW-2 submachine guns, whose design and visual appearance have a slight resemblance to the Romanian Pistol Mitralieră model 1980 carbine, but said Weapons are made without buttstock, and their barrels and handguards are much shorter. Like the Romanian carbine, these Albanian submachine guns also include a vertical laminated wood handle, but this piece is not fused with and under the lower handguard (as happens in Romanian weapons) and is placed just below the barrel by means of an anchor or clamp specifically designed for vertical grips. The Albanian RDW-1 and RDW-2 submachine guns were created to be used by crewmembers of tanks, helicopters and all kinds of Albanian military vehicles, as well as being widely used by Albanian police and special forces. But the Automatiku Shqiptar model 56 assault rifles, being exact copies of the Chinese Norinco Type 56 rifles, have the same cost as the original Chinese weapons. This is why Automatiku Shqiptar assault rifles, as well as AK-47, AKM rifles and all kinds of foreign versions and copies, are also quite common to be seen and used in many countries in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America, as These weapons are also not embedded in mud, sand, water, snow or any material on our planet Earth. There are tactical versions of the Automatiku Shqiptar assault rifles that are very similar to the AK-47 Tactical, but since they were first created until today,