Sunday, December 28, 2014

Ukrainian company "Fort" widens it's interaction with the Israeli IWI adopting 3 new designs: Fort-227, Fort-228 and Fort-229. Each one is based on the Israeli-designed Galil ACE, the evolution of an AK rifle.

Fort-227 is the 5.56 design, with the barrell length of 332 mm. Fort-228 is designed for 7.62x39 ammo, and has the barrell length of 215 mm. Fort-229, in its turn, has the barrell length of 400 mm and is designed for  7.62 NATO ammo.
Ukraine adopted Fort-227 and Fort-228 for the Army, as well, as it has adopted the Fort-made Tavor rifle for the National guard.
Nevertheless, not too many soldiers have used these rifles in the battlefield. Moreover, the profit of these guns is arguable, as Ukraine has no factories to massively produce 5.56 ammo, nor to rearrange the existing ones, as Lugansk ammo factory is in separatists' control

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