Zastava M70

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The Zastava M64 / M70 is a Yugoslav assault rifle derived from the AK-47 and AKM-59. Its most recent variants are still in production in 2006.

Characteristics

Operating by gas borrowing and locking by rotary head, it allows selective firing. It differs from the AK-47 by a longer three-ventilated guard and the possibility of mounting a puncture-throwing grenade sleeve (anti-personnel/anti-tank grenade M60, M62 lighting and exercise M66). It is itself a modified version of the M64. They all have chargers with a head stop.

Yugoslav variants

M64: copy of AK 47 with removable grenade launcher sleeve. The cannon of the M64 is from . Cartoon made of matricated steel.
M64A/M64B /M70A: gun of . The M64B/70A correspond to the Russian AKS.
M70B1/AB2: copies of the AKM/AKMS with removable grenade launcher sleeve. Steel carcase pressed.
M70B3/AB3: copies of the AKM/AKMS without removable grenade launcher sleeve. Steel carcase pressed.

M70 in 7.92 mauser (8.57 current IS)

AR M77B1: M70B1 in NATO, 20 strokes.
SMG M92: compact version of the M70B1, foldable butt.
AR M80/M90: M70B1 in 5.56 mm NATO, 30 shots.
SMG M85: compact version of AR M80/M90 with foldable butt.

The civil version called Semiautomatic Sporting Rifle PAP, intended for the North American market, does not shoot in gusts and does not receive bayonet or grenade launchers. Measuring for , its wooden frame includes a hole butt.

Serbian variants

For export, Kragujevac has developed a modernized M70 with standard rails:
fixed ladle version and polymer mount. Long for without charger;
type Carabine M4 and polymer mount. Long for without charger
Zastava also produced from the M70 a new family of assault rifles named M21. Weighing without charger for a length of 79 to .

Some user countries

They armed the soldiers of the JNA then the combatants of the wars of Yugoslavia and of:
: copied as ASH-82
Employment by Bosnian militiamen and during the War of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cyprus
Employment by Croatian militia and military and during the Croatian War
Tabuk/Tabuk Sniper variants licensed by Iraqi arsenals.

(used by Kosovo security forces)

It is like all the variants of FA Kalachnikov in use in pirates of the Red Sea.

/ / private military companies

Following the 1991-1995 Balkan conflict, FA Zastava spread to the Mafia, Camorra, 'Ndrangheta (Italy) or Middleland (France). Thus, in 2012, during a Customs control on Highway A4 were seized "the spare parts of five Zastava M70 machine guns, Yugoslav equivalent of Kalashnikov" seized.

Other weapons of war signed ZCZ
Zastava Arms' range of small arms also includes