{"id":24683,"date":"2024-05-03T07:30:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/amd-65-the-specialists-ak-turns-standard-issue\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T07:30:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T12:30:37","slug":"amd-65-the-specialists-ak-turns-standard-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/amd-65-the-specialists-ak-turns-standard-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD-65: The Specialist&#8217;s AK Turns Standard-Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/shrFR5wSGkk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Get your copy of &#8220;Rifles On The Danube&#8221; today!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/rifles-on-the-danube?ref=5zte5b<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/rifles-on-the-danube?ref=5zte5b<br<\/a> \/><br \/>The Hungarian AMD-65 (Automata M\u00f3dos\u00edtott Deszantfegyver<br \/> &#8211; &#8220;Modified Paratrooper Automatic Rifle&#8221;) was requested first in 1964 because the standard AKM-63 rifles in Hungarian service were too long for a lot of troops. The Ministry of the Interior requested a new rifle 30% shorter and 10% lighter than the standard AK, and the result was the AMD-65. The designers at F\u00c9G decided that the regular Soviet underfolding stock design was too complicated and expensive &#8211; and also prone to getting loose with use &#8211; and designed their own folding stock design. It was cheap, easy to make, and solid &#8211; but it gave a lousy cheek weld. This was an acceptable compromise. <\/p>\n<p>The AMD-65 first saw combat use with elements of the Hungarian forces that occupied Czechoslovakia in August 1968, and they liked it. In a surprise move a few months later, the Hungarian MoD decided to adopt it as the standard infantry rifle for all troops, on account of its lower cost than the AKM-63. This was really not the role the AMD-65 was intended for, but the decision stood. Production for the Hungarian military ran until 1980, and commercial and export production continued another decade until 1990. In total, about 1,068,000 AMD-65s were made, accounting for 56.5% of all Hungarian Kalashnikovs. It was widely exported, and is seen in conflict zones worldwide to this day.<\/p>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your copy of &#8220;Rifles On The Danube&#8221; today!https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/rifles-on-the-danube?ref=5zte5bThe Hungarian AMD-65 (Automata M\u00f3dos\u00edtott Deszantfegyver &#8211; &#8220;Modified Paratrooper Automatic Rifle&#8221;) was requested first in 1964 because the standard AKM-63 rifles in Hungarian service were too long for a lot of troops. The Ministry of the Interior requested a new rifle 30% shorter and 10% lighter than&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/amd-65-the-specialists-ak-turns-standard-issue\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AMD-65: The Specialist&#8217;s AK Turns Standard-Issue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}