The 5.56-millimeter Fatih assault rifle is actually a clone of the Bushmaster Adaptive Combat Rifle. The Iranian defense industry has designed at least a dozen similar rifles in the past decade in a mostly failed effort to replace old AK-47s and G-3s.
The only one that has seen any service is a modified version of a Chinese copy of the American M-16. For its part, Fatih didn’t even work as propaganda. Photographs captured the moment the rifle jammed after firing a few demonstrative shots at its own inauguration ceremony.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/kn...her-embarrassing-iranian-weapons-5438d5e45098
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And people complain about the militarization of the US.
The only one that has seen any service is a modified version of a Chinese copy of the American M-16. For its part, Fatih didn’t even work as propaganda. Photographs captured the moment the rifle jammed after firing a few demonstrative shots at its own inauguration ceremony.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/kn...her-embarrassing-iranian-weapons-5438d5e45098
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And people complain about the militarization of the US.