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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).
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.
The RPK-74M (Modernizirovannij "Modernized") is an updated variant of the RPK-74 developed during the mid-'90s. In line with the AK-74M assault rifle variant, the RPK-74M lower handguard, gas tube cover, pistol grip, and new synthetic stock are made from a black, glass-filled polyamide .
Zastava M72 [2] Yugoslavia: 7.62×39mm light machine gun M72B1, M72 [3] Ultimax 100 [2] Singapore: 5.56mm NATO light machine gun Mark 3/3A, Mark 2 [3] In small numbers. M249 light machine gun [2] United States: 5.56mm NATO light machine gun M249 PIP: Zastava M84 [2] Yugoslavia: 7.62×54mmR general purpose machine gun M84, M86 [3] M60 machine ...
Model Image Caliber Origin Quantity Note M72 LAW. HAR-66. 66mm United States / Turkey: Lately shown in KSF special forces operators, during the parade of ''Day of Liberation''. Same product as M72 LAW, but turkish made. FGM-148 Javelin: 127mm United States: 246 (on order) OMTAS: 160mm Turkey
M72 (Johannesburg), a road in South Africa; Weaponry ... Zastava M72, a Yugoslav copy of the RPK machine gun; Other uses. BMW M72 V-12 engine; Dnepr M-72, ...
After a research project and a competitive tender in 1879, a new model rifle was chosen as the replacement. The first domestic-made repeating rifle, a derivative of the Mauser Model 1871 bolt-action rifle, was designed in 1880 by Kosta Milovanović and was named Mauzer Milovanović M. 1880 , known as "Mauser-Koka" or "Koka's Rifle", after its ...