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The Zastava M72 chambers and fires the 7.62×39mm M67 round. It is a gas-operated, air-cooled, drum-fed firearm with a fixed stock. It is a squad automatic weapon, like the Soviet RPK but has unique design features. This weapon is a near copy of the Soviet RPK light machine gun. There are a few differences on the M72/M72A.
The Yugoslavian version of the RPK, the Zastava M72, is a longer barreled member of the M70 family and is the weapon upon which the Tabuk is based. The barrel length of the Iraqi Tabuk rifle is 23.6 inches – slightly longer and thinner than a Yugoslavian M72 barrel, but much longer than a traditional AKM or the M70 (16.25 inches).
M72 LAW [16] 66 mm: Anti-tank rocket launcher United States: Turkish HAR-66 (LAW copy) supplied by Turkey M79 Osa [71] [84] 90 mm: Anti-tank rocket launcher Yugoslavia: Supplied by Saudi Arabia. [73] RBR-120 mm M90 [85] 120 mm: Anti-tank rocket launcher Serbia / Macedonia: Anti-tank guided weapons 9M14 Malyutka [86] [87] 125 mm: Wire-guided ...
This is a list of Yugoslav military equipment of World War II. This will deal with the equipment of the military of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and not the various resistance groups active in the country during World War II. This is because these resistance groups are distinct from the Yugoslav military and used a variety of weapons that not fit ...
This is a list of World War II weapons of Yugoslavia, more specifically land weapons used by the Royal Yugoslav Army during the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia. Weapons used by the resistance groups the Yugoslav Partisans and Chetniks will not be included due to their scavenged and random nature. However, if you want to place a list put a title ...
The below table gives a list of firearms that can fire the 7.62×39mm cartridge, first developed and used by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. [1] The cartridge is widely used due to the worldwide proliferation of Russian SKS and AK-47 pattern rifles, as well as RPD and RPK light machine guns. This table is sortable for every column.
M72 LAW, a United States Army anti-tank weapon; Mecar M72, a Belgian hand grenade; Zastava M72, a Yugoslav copy of the RPK machine gun; Other uses. BMW M72 V-12 engine;
Yugoslav tank brigades comprised two or three battalions each with 31 tanks in three ten tank companies. They operated 1114 Soviet T-54s and T-55s, 73 Soviet T-72s, 443 Yugoslav M-84s, and some United States-made M-47 tanks. The army's tanks were in many respects its most obsolete forces. The T-54/-55 was a frontline model during the 1960s.