The point of mentioning the AMD-65’s barrel length at all on At War was to show that the Kalashnikov knock-off used by the Afghan police had a significantly shorter barrel than the Kalashnikovs’Ĭarried by the Taliban, and that as a result the police officers’ rifles had a shorter effective range than the insurgents’ typical rifles.
By his own reference material, from the Military Parade Ltd. Is an attachment to the barrel, and a separate component, and therefore the true barrel length was considerably less. Wing noted that the AMD-65’s rather extravagant muzzle brake For the AMD-65, their reference listed the barrel length, with its muzzle brake, at 14.88 inches. Long and packed with fine-grained details. Weeks carried risks, too, because sometimes they compressed facts, an understandable editorial choice for a volume more than 400-pages Wing’s first e-mail served to point out, relying on Mr. Hogg’s more prolific contributors.īut as Mr. Weeks, a former British Army colonel, was one of Mr. Hogg, a former British master gunner, was for more than two decades the editor of Jane’s Infantry Weapons Those who follow firearms reportage closely will recognize the authors’ names. Have typically relied on my copy of the 7th Edition of “ Military Small Arms of the 20th Century,”īy Ian V. In the ever-expanding series of At War posts about the tools of war, we have sought standard references for describing dimensions this is important, becauseĪs anyone who has written technically of military equipment knows, there are often multiple and contradictory references for the same weapon or other item under consideration. Making the AMD-65 a marker of the confused and often disorganized equipping of the Pentagon’s Afghan proxies, especially during the American military’s busiest years in Iraq, when the Afghan war was The Afghan police have found the rifle to be inferior to the weapons in the hands of their Taliban foes, This brings me to a recent set of e-mails from States Wing, an American reader who wrote to discuss the technical characteristics and dimensions of the AMD-65, a Hungarian assault rifle that the Pentagon has purchasedĪnd handed out to the Afghan police. Possible, reader feedback has produced many news and investigative tips, led to new sources and helped some of us learn new things. Prominently displayed (at least compared to a front-page treatment in the newspaper), routinely generates heavy e-mail feedback in addition to the comments visible under each post. Material posted here, seemingly small or not The At War blog is well past one year old now, and one of the most gratifying results of its brief but busy life has been the level of engagement it has drawn from readers.
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