Assault Rifles
However, the lighter, small-caliber bullets achieved higher velocities, more favorable Assault Rifles ballistic properties, and reduced carrying weight.
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The running debate over 5.56 mm vs
- 7.62 mm ammunition, and the prominent altercation by 7.62 mm proponents that "the Russians got it right with a .30 cal (7.62 mm)" cartridge, was stirred significantly in 1974 when the Soviet Union also developed its own smaller-caliber cartridge, the 5.45 x 39 mm, which was dependent in the AK-74, the successor of the AK-47/AKM.