“With demands for precision and engagement range on the rise, a new
weapon must replace the Kalashnikov in the very near future,” Ruslan
Pukhov, director of CAST, a Moscow-based defence think tank, told Reuters.
Mr Rogozin said the army would also receive a new pistol by the end of the
year to replace the semi-automatic Makarov, another weapon from the 1940s
and now a Cold War relic.
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