The AK-47 Kalashnikov Museum Virtual Tour: Part 6 - AK-74|AK-100|Saiga / Page 5 /

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Museum of Kalashnikov. Featured in this showcase, first three Saiga guns and the latter black finish Saiga gun are produced by Izhmash, while Vepr carbine is made by Vyatsko-Polyansk Factory.


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 Also, taking the AK as prototype, there was designed a line of hunting rifles:
- Saiga self-loading hunting carbine (1974) (developed from the AKM Kalashnikov assault rifle in 1974) and
- Vepr self-loading hunting carbine (developed from the    Pic.6-15 Artifacts of the epoch
RPK-74 light machine gun.
It differs from the RPK-74 in caliber, cartridge, mode of fire, magazine capacity, design and dimensions).

Featured in this showcase, first three guns and the latter black finish gun are produced by Izhmash, while Vepr carbine is made by Vyatsko-Polyansk Factory.

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