Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "wz.96 Beryl: Poland's 5.56mm Military AK" video.

  1.  @chrishanson9748  More likely "AK is what we can produce ourselves". The US practically gives away M16s as foreign military aid. Sometimes even literally gives them away. And given that the US military was downsizing after the fall of the Soviet Union, there were a lot of excess stock of M16s.
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  2. Technically, the Galil wasn't designed for 5.56x45mm NATO. It was designed for .223 Remington. They use the same case dimensions, but they're not completely identical cartridges. The Galil was designed a decade before 5.56 NATO existed.
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  3. That was my initial thought. But the Galil is a military .223 Remington AK, if you want to be technical about it. 5.56 NATO wasn't even a thing yet when the Galil was designed.
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  4.  @fuuryuuSKK  It was developed for export, but for military export. East Germany apparently had contracts to sell them to the Indian and Peruvian armies before everything collapsed. Internally, well do you count the Stasi as military use?
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  5.  @SnoopReddogg  IIRC, the 5.56 Valmets were all for civilian sale. The Finnish Defence Forces exclusively use 7.62x39 models, and that's still their standard caliber to this day. The only exception are the Special Jaegers, who starting in 2015 use the FN SCAR in 5.56 NATO.
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  6. As for the Galil, technically it was designed for .223 Remington. The Galil was adopted in 1972. 5.56 NATO was adopted in 1980. 5.56 is a development of .223 Remington, but they're not completely identical.
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  7. Yep, the fact that the Tantal came into existence over something to capitalist as licensing fees is hilarious.
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  8.  @christhefirst  If you want to see ugly, look at the Galil ACE. The original Galils I think look pretty good.
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  9. For standardization with the rest of NATO. In warfare, logistics are king.
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  10. Because Poland already had production lines for AKs, and it wasn't that complicated to adapt the 5.45 Tantal into the 5.56 Beryl. Obviously Poland put a lot of value in remaining an arms-producing nation rather than having to rely outside suppliers for everything down to the simple infantry rifle. Because if they were willing to just adopt the M16/M4 platform, the US would've provided them dirt cheap. Maybe even just gave them excess US Army rifles for free, since the US military was downsizing in 1997 when Poland officially adopted the Beryl.
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