Yugoslavian M70 AK History, Variants, & More

hi this is Nisha in this video we're going to kind of look at the the history of the Yugoslavian a.k although actually and Yugoslavia its abbreviation would be AP now we did a video about four years ago looking at it but that was a long time ago and our equipment wasn't near as good and so on and so forth the Yugoslavian guns really all of them any of them aren't well for them they're definitely not exact clones or copies even more than that they're very distinctive to the point of not even often being parts interchangeable with their Soviet counterparts on the table we have a you Slav Ian M 59 66 and this is the a1 variant SKS they called this the pap that's just basically some automatic rifle we also have the Yugoslavian zastava m70 this is a milled receiver gun and we have a sista Oh PAP converted into an m7 t b1 clone all of these are chambered for 7.62 by 39 the two Kalashnikovs used standard decade mags the SKS uses standard Cliffjumper clips let's start with the SKS now this is the later variant with the grenade launcher and this one has also has the flip up night sights some did some didn't Yugoslavia next to China used the SKS and very large numbers in the 1950s Soviet Russia was trying to essentially sell or bought of the SKS production line that while some nations such as Romania did obtain it others such as Poland were very resistant by the mid 50s the SKS was incredibly obsolete it was mid world war ii technology the Kalashnikov was well underway so on and so forth so by the late fifties russia simply gave yugoslavia the rights in the production line to the SKS this was in an attempt to draw tito closer into the warsaw pact the the russia's circle sphere of influence interestingly yugoslavia was the only major successful Communist revolution in europe not to be funded assisted or just outright forced by the soviet union tito really gained authority control over the Yugoslavian government about as much on his own as anyone does in this modern day and time of course he received assistance from foreign nations everyone does even America did during its revolution but Tito was about as independent as it really could get in the [ __ ] box so they were trying to basically kiss up to Yugoslavia and get them more into their sphere of influence so they give them the SKS production line they started with in the beginning to produce almost an exact copy of a late age ask SKS as the PAP in 59 later they would introduce the 59 66 and the only real difference is the grenade launcher along with its gas cutoff up here sites there's actually a separate gas cutoff there's a switch here and then you just raise your sights when the switches on me and the gas is on you cannot raise your sights so it's a little bit of a safety but it is a separate mechanism we also have a rubber recoil pad we still have a trap door for the SKS cleaning get them has a blued finish with the Polish bolt it has a fixed ten round magazine chargeable with stripper clips typical SKS safety pretty much all standard a miss uses a somewhat unique sling of you just lobbying styling we have a buckle here that can be easily detached and we have a much larger spring clip on the front than on a Soviet sling it's not really any wider and actually a lot of them are pretty thin but it's definitely easier to get on and off rifles they would produce the SKS the m59 66 through the early 70s and these would remain in Yugoslavia in military service well through the the tragic civil war in the 90s in fact well I wouldn't necessarily call these often frontline they definitely saw heavy use and unfortunately they were pretty popular with the ethnic cleansing squads because they did not need an automatic weapon attend shots Amata was sufficient enough but the SKS and Yugoslavia much like anywhere else was still a stopgap measure it was to a self loader no automatic fire fixed magazine gun after getting that production line up and running its estaba they turned to producing a copy of the a k now by the 60s Russia had already switched over to the stamped receiver a km however Yugoslavia was working from the original mill aka type 3 in its first guns would have a milled receiver similar to this like I said this is an M 70 however the barrels would be screwed in not pinned and it has a light this has a lightning cut here the m64 is collectors call it today would have a lightning cut over here whereas on the m70 it's smooth so just you know yeah the M 64 was never really officially adopted by the Yugoslavian military although it did acquire many as you know you you know how to say test models and they do they do turn out from time to time so this table produced them and pretty large numbers but they just weren't officially adopted and they were so commercially and so on and so forth they had some other changes too one interesting change that they that you just Lobby this is a stop I made to the Kalashnikov they put in a last round bolt hold-open device similar to an ar-15 to do this they also had to make specialized magazines with the trip now name 70 doesn't have it I'm pulling the mag out though because this is a vestigial part if you look here on this side see this cutout this was originally in M 64 magazine and this is where the bolt hold-open would spring up and will hold the bolt open now later on after they abandoned the whole concept they would just put standard followers in the mags and keep using them waste not want not of course this meant why you could have a bolt hold open standard Kalashnikov magazines would not work in the m60 for next would come in the M 70 that would also make a under folding version of the m60 for often called the m60 for a however these guns never had official designations from Zastava they were just called the AAP of time you know I next we would come to the M 70 with just critter is here this is a reweld done by turbo done by Matt many moons ago so we can talk about it still a milled receiver as I said it's this receiver itself is quite similar to the Soviet pattern with two exceptions one we have only the single lightning cut on the right side with a slab side lift - we've gone to the preston pinned in barrel as used on the AKM but they used it on a mill gun Bulgaria and China would also do something similar there are many benefits to go into our press to pin to barrel it's easier faster to do it's also easier to replace the barrels it's easier to headspace it's just easier all around there's really no detractions aside from maybe just aesthetics and people liking the old style of screw and barrel so we still have an understatement we have a pretty heavy-duty top cover it really reminds me more of like an aka type - top cover it's very thick and heavy on the m60 4s in the early and 70s we have a bolt carrier polished no lightning cut we have been interesting safety the tab there's only one tab on the bottom and it's very small it works we also have the spring-loaded plunger in the back of moving in here this is the lock for the dust cover latch this appears on pretty much all of the stavos guns past and present and that's to go with the grenade launcher like the SKS over there they wanted their aks to launch rifle grenades we have a flip up site and this doubles as a gas cutoff it's automatic whereas on the SKS you have two separate steps and then you would screw on a grenade launcher which I've got over here on this gun but I'll show you in a minute we still have a 16 inch or 16 and a quarter I should say 415 millimeter barrel now this retains the medium heavy profile from the aka type 2 or type 3 it is cold hammer-forged interestingly Zastava chose not to chrome line their 76039 barrels B the SKS or aka past or present again there's different explanations as to why the truth is no one has definitively stated the exact reason they chose not to it might have been to get better accuracy it might have been because Yugoslavia did not have an access to steady chrome to use we don't know you know that's what they did we have flip up night sights and this one folds down back here so similar to the SKS 59 66 a 1 they like their nights I'd say like their Bonet blunders otherwise the sights are very similar to Russian these would have a ported gas tube like on the a K type 3 here and a non ported gas block we have the longer you go pattern handguards if you notice there are three event holes instead of the standard two so they're a little longer by about an inch which is nice I think it's nice we don't have palm swells but they do taper they're thinner up here and wider back here so there's a pretty noticeable taper to them which is good longer upper handguard to interestingly on the m7e we don't have a type a take a type three bayonet lug under the sight base we have an AKM style lug under the gas block the gas block also has an interesting kind of flat front face putting an egg for the grenade we still store a cleaning kit under the barrel and we mapped our sling as we would our an ache a type three with the swivel under the gas block here and the rear one on the receiver side moving back we have a very unique pattern of buttstock this is a socket we do not have a top or a bottom tang as on our Russian okay we this stock fits into a square socket and has one giant screw running from all the way into the receiver and because of that we do not have a trapdoor but we do have a rubber butt pad for again grenade launching same as on the SKS in the comb and the shape this is a pretty thick chunky stock I think it's very interesting I like it but it is different finally the Yugoslavian pistol grip early ones can be wood this is a late in 64 early in 70 grip it has the typical horizontal lines and thumb rest here I'm cut out but it as a metal call it thera bracket or fuller ferrule that's the one I'm looking for but we do have this metal ferrule that the grip goes into this is a separate piece it's not part of the receiver it's just something they did on some of the earlier grips it's worth pointing out that these are not terribly parts compatible with the Soviet milled aka type 3 most of the parts just don't quite fit the dimensions are a little bit different the stopper really did their own thing for example the length of the receiver is a little different the length of the gas system is different obviously the hand guards are different the buttstock so mini AKA type 3 parts will not 50s they do still have 14 by 1 threaded muzzles left hand so it takes a standard muzzle but they do take standard a.k mags now that we've gone away from the bolt hold-open but to replace the bolt hold-open we have the pipe famous you go hold back follower this lets you know when your weapon is empty it also helps with cooling when it's empty but of course once you take your mag out your boat goes wood because the only thing holding it is the follower in the mag there so better than nothing but yeah so they had the mill in 70 this was officially adopted into service and pretty much all previous guns that ended up in Yugoslavian military service we're all just lumped in under this M 70 designation even if they had screw n barrels or other features in all older M 64 is usually had they both hold open devices removed so they could take all standard mags they would also do an under folding stock version known as the M 78 and they would do a few other minor upgrades and changes which would lead to the m7 t v-- series I'm good to that now these early designations you'll read several different sources as to exact names again most of the military guns are just lumped in is m70 and Zastava didn't do a lot of naming conventions what they did do the note receiver was of course time-consuming to mass-produce and definitely by the standards of the 1970s so like everyone else this table would switch over to a stamped receiver this is an m7 DB one the front end is virtually identical to the m7 t I do have the grenade launcher on this one it just unscrews though we still have a grenade site it's a little different pattern also the gas ports have been moved from the tube to the block is on an AKM and the dust cover was lightened up a little bit it's still a heavy-duty smooth dust cover but more like an a type three the bolt carrier was given a lightning cut as was the bolt the safety has gone through several iterations they've changed the shape of the little tab there a few times and the ferrule is gone on the pistol grip the first Yugoslavian stamped guns would use a 1.0 millimeter stamped receiver then they would quickly go over to a 1.5 mil stamped receiver with the Bulge trunnion here now this is confusing both are known as m7 BB both the 1.0 in the 1.5 so they basically went to a standard a cam thickness stamped receiver then they would go to 1.5 more like an hour PK interestingly two of the rivet pattern in the front is more reminiscent of China than the Russian AKM on these how about is racing later in our PK true just they did their own thing they kind of made their own pattern the stamped receiver is not the same as an RP k stamped it's just the same thickness but they have their own their own designs this block up here is a little thicker for example but this front end is still very much a K type 3 we still have the medium heavy profile barrel still cold hemorrhage but not chrome blind still have the longer pan guards without the palms well as I said this mid top cover so these guns are kind of a hybrid of a KN AKM features but then again I have a lot of dis standard estaba features that none of the Soviet aks would have like they flip up night sights or the grenade launcher again they were doing their own thing this would be the version that would be produced in large numbers the m70 b1 and it would remain the standard issue weapon in yugoslavia up to during and even after the Civil War they would also sell many of these as an export and magus they got around the world they're well known for being high quality guns they did not actually go to a a parkerized or painted finish they kept on bluing kept on leaving the bolt carriers and the white which is an interesting choice but it works for them and this is more of a military grade blowing I wouldn't call it a commercial grade so the my point is the Yugoslavian guns are often called aks but they're really a deep variation they're kind of like the Chinese in the sense that they they start at all with the the basis of the milled a K type 3 but then they went in a different direction they never really made an AKM Club how does find it interesting in a nerdy way I find you this lobbying guns interesting they were built very tough to be very dependable they tried to soldier proof them and they tried to add some features again in addition to making a variation of the a que estaba also produced a variation of the soviet our PK light machine gun now as the same thing kind of went it was a very loose variation this is a kit gun here built back from a kit that still came with a matching barrel from our guns many moons ago and I know Dex but 1.5 mil receiver now the RPK they started working on it very early on - the first ones were milled with screwin barrels I think collectors often call these m60 fives but they didn't really have an official designation then they would move over to the M 72 which would have a milled receiver with the pressed in barrel and then we'll get to the M 70 to be one which would have a one point five millimeter stamped receiver from the rear back this is extremely similar to the m7 tb1 same exact buttstock same receiver the only difference in the receiver we don't have the spring-loaded detent for the retaining glass because this was never set up to fire rifle grenades same rivet pattern takes the same 30 round magazines so stubborn never produced 40 round mags or drums however many extended mags came in from over over the border from foreign nations be it Romania Bulgaria Russia have the same pistol grip same top cover the rear sight is more RPK style with the windage knob the hand guards are our pique style they're a little different than Russian but very very similar they are not extended but they are fatted fattened for the barrel the gas system is pretty much the same we have the ports on the gas block the barrel is the biggest difference instead of a 16 and a quarter inch medium profile barrel we have a 23 and a quarter inch heavy profile but it's a very different barrel from a standard RPK and a few different reasons for one we have these very noticeable cooling fins here at this thing happily that make the barrel very beefy and for another the Soviet pattern RPK has a couple of step downs that tapers a bit towards the puzzle this has the same thickness all the way to the bipod it also lacks the secondary ring for the cleaning rod so it's a heavier barrel really than the Soviet our pique front side still has the nitesite flip up which is interesting but the rear sight is not and we're still threaded 14 millimeter left hand and the bipod is a very close replica of the Russian pattern so has some RPK features that are almost identical such as the rear sight and the bipod and but it didn't has a barrel that's kind of its own thing and then from this point back it's essentially a 1070 b1 which I'm sure was a good economy for the stop but not to have to produce two totally different receiver types and everything and restock types just to make a light machine gun they would produce these as the m-72 b1 again all the way through the 90s probably even into the 21st century they made them in large numbers and they issued them and use them in large numbers both domestically and overseas this table also had a thing for under folding stocks this is my in PAP DF it's a good example of an m7 t a b1 this has the 1.0 millimeter Zastava receiver well you don't see really hardly any 1.0 mil receiver thick stock guns m7 t be ones that seems like something they did not produce in large numbers you do see quite a few parts kits coming out made from m 70 a B one under folding guns it seems like the 1.0 mil receiver was popular for under folders it was lighter probably just a little more suited for a paratroopers and another thrill needing a folding stock gun so I can understand that and they kept making these they pretty much did under folding stock versions of everything that our PK they did an under folding version first with the milled receiver is the m7 t28 and then later with the stamped receiver is the m-72 a b-1 they would also do a one point five millimeter receiver version of this known as the m7 d ab2 it's quite interesting that while the two stamped receiver versions were both called b1 they did make a distinction between the 1.0 and the 1.5 mil stamped under folders a b-1 and a bt respectively this tells me that they kept them both in production much longer than they did the fixed stock at least that's my supposition the front end is the same as on the b b1 16 and a quarter inch barrel this does have the slant break later production because lobbying guns could have the slant break although you still see a lot of muzzle nuts if this was not an import it could have grenade sites although they do they do make versions under the beef designation or a b3 they have a standard AKM bayonet lug and mountain underbarrel grenade launcher that's a more recent evolution of the series so newer guns often would not have the mandated sights anyway and the cut off we have the extended hand guards we have the heavy-duty top cover the Yugoslavian under folding stock is quite similar to the Soviet pattern but it is a little bit different it's based on the AKMs so it has dual locking on both sides they will change these over time the earlier ones didn't have as many rivets as time went on they would reinforce them making them a little heavier and sturdier the safety too would change you said this has a second here unlike the fixed stock these would change in size and shape from the original milled stew through more recent guns this being a newer one it also has the hole bolt hold back notch here which is kind of interesting I like it it means when you have on a you go mad when you're held open you can simply pull your bolt back with your empty mag put your safety on there you go and now you can lock your take your mag out without your both flying forward and then when you put in a new bag you can just flip this down sorry the safety stiff on this one guys see so it's a system that works with the bolt hold-open mags to make a somewhat decent kind of ad hoc bolt hold-open but a gun that can still feed from standard a.k mags but you dis la vía but used in their military and a number of under folding guns as would several other communist nations they were just more convenient for people getting in and out of vehicles airplanes they just had a lot more utility come the 1980s so this table would make a large number of the a B 1 and a B twos especially the a B twos and they would keep on again we're still not chrome lighting the barrel with these but it's still a very good heavy profile barrel for a rifle it has the aka type 3 profile its pinned in you can see this is still a little bit beefier here and on a standard AKM trains a little bit heavier thicker up here or the pins at all so we have three rivets in the back a little bit beefier trunnion they could top cover and finally we have the small one of the series the m92 now this was a late comer developed in the late eighties early nineties this is estaba stake on the so called crink the Russian aks you they would manufacture this in sorry house right here they would manufacture this in both 76230 nine and 223 for export 556 NATO they would not manufacture it in five four five by 39 however this is because this table never produced five four five by 39 guns because Yugoslavia had never adopted the cartridge they stuck with 7.62 by 39 and in more recent years they're transitioning over to 556 NATO like a lot of other communist allied nations they skipped right over five four five so when they did their aks you they stuck with 76039 and as with the em 70 and the m-72 this is a very loose copy truthfully this has an extension on four 16-inch barrel the barrel itself is 10 inches long we're still not chrome-lined although interestingly the version in 223 five five six known as the m85 does have a chrome line so when they did their 223 guns they did Chrome the boards of course they did them much later compared with the original in 59 66 is in M 64 M 70s anyway instead of having 24 millimeter Soviet threads which which are 24 right hand they used a proprietary 26 left hand thread pitch I think I have one of the devices and they left it over on the couch sorry guys anyway it's just a typical crank style conical flash hider / booster to give back pressure we have a combination front side gas block because they really like them it also has a flip-up night sight we have you must love Ian's extended hang guards these are shorter then on an M 70 but they're still longer on the stet then on the standard crank and they have a very pronounced palms well quite similar to the soviet crink this is built on the 1.0 millimeter receiver like the M 70 a b-1 see here with the under folding stock as opposed to a side folding the military versions would be fitted with under folders this isn't an original Udo stock on this one Serbians this type of stock still the smooth top cover we have the rear sight which is a flip knotch aperture there's just a notch not aperture just like on a soviet crank but a little bit different it's still a hinged top cover then unlike the soviet pattern it's not spring-loaded it just moves freely because of the longer barrel this has a slightly longer gas system than their standard aks you so the gas piston is a little bit longer but still much shorter got on the standard writing we're using a standard pistol grip here and the swing is pretty close to standard you go close the buckle but instead of having a large clip in the front we have this much smaller clip and this actually rotates 360 degrees which is kind of nice so the end piece is different but the rest of the sling is the same much like how the m-72 RPK is built on essentially an M 71 excuse me Jim 70 B one receiver chassis the m92 is built on an M 70 a B one receiver chassis excluding the top cover and rear sight base which is attached to the trunnion and receiver and stock and pistol grip are all the same as on the a B one so again they're kind of economizing their production line making things as simple as possible while still delivering a good good product they just need a different top cover rear sight and in the barrel assembly is of course different this is as I said the m92 firing 76039 in maybe five fires five five six this is often called the crank and since it does fill that role that's a good thing to call it but as with all the other guns that is not parts interchangeable and it has its own distinctions it's a little bit longer and heavier and probably a little bit beefier because these were actually used in more ground type combat and defense and a lot of the Russian aks 74 years would have been so that's a rundown of some of the Yugoslavian guns there are plenty of others they did a 556 version known as the M 90 then later a version updated called the m95 there's also of course the 8 millimeter DMR known as the M 76 and it's 7.62 NATO counterpart known as the m77 and more recently they've gone at least they're trying to go to the M 21 which is an updated modernized version so stava has a very large catalog it's actually quite nice and interesting to look through before go away this is a typical you just Lobby in mag pouch it holds four mags smells like someone's basement four mags in here at the front to have their own pockets the back is more of an open-plan design with just a little strap on the top we also have two smaller pockets in the front this one I've got a Yugo metal oiler a little chain to keep the lid on kind of interesting I thought they did not use the standard they also issued a cleaning rope but if their guns I know they also have a cleaning rod out of the barrel but they also have a cleaning rope in the patch remember there's not a cleaning compartment in the buttstock of any of their guns so this is kind of an older style pouch it's got a belt a shoulder strap there's several several variations of these they're usually minor but there are got a more modern pouch down here this is actually kind of an interesting pouch that arms of America found for me and sent over same basic floor plan that made of a more modern nylon strap more modern material synthetic leather here I've been told this was an export pouch but it's definitely a more modern pouch shoes still holds four mags though I've got the more updated plastic or bottle in this one just because they went from the metal to the world a dead plastic and I still have a cleaning rope in here yeah couple of you go patches they also have a version that's similar to this but these are cut down the pouch two fronts are cut down and kind of scalloped down more and that's for the the five five six magazines I should have brought mine out I do have one out there but it looks the same adjust that there alter just a little bit to make sure you can get a hold of the the shorter five five six mags the magaz themselves four five five six the early ones were steel they look like small versions of the seven six two mags later more recently they've gone to semi disposable kind of matte polymer mag which is interesting and they still do the thirty round steel bolt hold-open mags in fact some of just hit the market over at Apex and other places for a really good price this is just an overview of the Yugoslavian guns you have any questions or comments please post them below if you like the video please click like if you haven't already subscribed well you know the routine by now we really appreciate it if you would as always this is Nisha and please tune in again next time for more hopefully interesting videos we'll catch you there

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Length: 38min 51sec (2331 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 02 2018

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[u/IrishSeaMonkey]

Nice video from Mishaco going over the Yugoslavian M70 by Zastava.

[u/KayZabba]

Lol I thought he was just an dbag wearing shades in buildings.