CW39 and a Type 56 by The Firearms Blog Development of the military rifle has stagnated mostly into tweaking three different basic platforms into different ergonomics layouts. For the past 30 years, most of the new service rifles have been either attempts to breathe life into the AK.47 carcass, fine tuning the AR-15 or hiding the AR-18/180 into different shells. This has brought us some excellent rifles and capability upgrades from the likes of M4A1, Steyr AUG, FN SCAR to SAKO RK-62M2. Pakistani G3 and Type 56 One rifle program that is swimming up the mountain river is the Pakistan Army’s rifle trials and subsequent development of their upcoming assault rifle the CW39. The initial trials pitted most of the usual suspects in modern rifles against the two existing service rifles of the Pak Army Chinese Type-56 a 7.62x39 AK variant and the H&K G3, a 7.62x51 battle rifle built under license by the Pakistani Ordnance Factory, POF. In their testing the Pak Army came to the conclusion tha...
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