A huge variety of weapons were created in the Soviet Union. Not all of them ended up in mass production, despite the fact that from time to time from under the pencil of engineers, samples came out that were really ahead of their time. However, as often happens, this was the main problem of these rifles and machine guns. That in no way diminishes the rest of their merits.
In the early 1960s, a fashion for a variation of the "Bull-pup" layout appeared in the environment of weapon designers, when the trigger of the assault rifle was in front of the firing mechanism and the magazine. In those days, the not unfounded impression was created that the future lies precisely behind this type of organization of the design of the machine. Of course, in the USSR, a simple, cheap and effective automatic favorite has been used for several years. However, who doesn't want to surpass the best of the best?
So, thanks to the efforts of Soviet designers, a whole galaxy of assault rifles and submachine guns with the above-mentioned layout was born. At the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant on February 13, 1960, one of the first such machines was developed and presented - the LA-4 designed by A.I. Nestorov. The weapon was created as part of an experiment to find new ways to organize the structure in order to increase the effectiveness of shooting while maintaining the low cost and simplicity of the product. The main feature of the LA-4 was the absence of a traditional receiver. The weapon was made for a caliber of 7.62 mm. Today the only sample of the assault rifle is kept in the Kalashnikov Museum.
READ ALSO: Lake without a bottom: a natural phenomenon in Kabardino-Balkaria
The next outstanding representative of domestic automatic rifles on the Bullpup system was not one sample of weapons, but a whole family. This, of course, is about TKB. Automatic machines were created under the leadership of Igor Yakovlevich Stechkin. Unlike the LA-4, the TKB series assault rifles were not only experimental. Some of them were actually developed in an attempt to surpass the existing AK. Most of the development of TKB took place in the late 1970s and the first half of the 1980s.
>>>>Ideas for life | NOVATE.RU<<<
The TKB assault rifles were designed for an intermediate caliber of 5.45 mm. Despite a number of shortcomings and some redundant design complexity, the program looked like the Soviet authorities as a whole promising and could develop further, if it were not for the collapse of the USSR. As a result, on a promising project in the 1990s, a cross was finally put up for lack of finance for its development.
Continuing the topic, you can read about 7 common misconceptions about weaponsthat the cinema has imposed on us.
A source: https://novate.ru/blogs/090820/55612/