Concern Kalashnikov: Improved AK-12

Concern Kalashnikov: The Russian military may start using an improved version of the AK-12 assault rifle in the special operation zone as early as this year, said Alan Lushnikov, president of the Kalashnikov concern. “Now the next stage of testing is underway, a batch of assault rifles has already been given for work in military operation, they are being tested in the mode of real combat operations. And if everything is in order, we will launch them into mass production from the second half of the year ... We expect that this (use in SVO) will happen this year.