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Agreed. Better round and more reliable. If I were in a live or die situation, and had a choice between an AR or AK, I'd take the AK everytime. Not that the AR is bad, the AK is just better if your goal is to live to tell the tale.

Round preference is debatable. But just like you, if I were going to grab one gun to run to a battlefield with between AR or AK... it's going to be the AK.

Big reason is that I feel the AK is a more reliable platform that requires less battlefield maintenance.

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Posted by greygoose

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Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:00 pm to SidewalkDawg

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Big reason is that I feel the AK is a more reliable platform that requires less battlefield maintenance.

Years after the Vietnam War was over, some American Vets went back looking for soldiers whose bodies weren't recovered. They found a Viet Cong body, decomposed in the jungle heat for years. Underneath was his AK. It fired after being left in the dirt, with a decomposed body on top of it.

There are tons of Youtube videos showing extreme abuse to that platform, and it still fires. That's the gun I want if all Hell breaks loose.

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Posted by greygoose

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Posted on 6/26/19 at 10:05 pm to SidewalkDawg

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Round preference is debatable.

Take a look at the ballistics gelatin testing between the 5.56 and the 5.45.

Cavitation is much more pronounced with the 5.45. There's a reason why the Afhanis gave that round a nickname.

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