{"id":26771,"date":"2025-04-12T07:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T12:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/domestic-burmese-g3s-ba64-rifle-and-ba-72-carbine-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T07:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T12:45:27","slug":"domestic-burmese-g3s-ba64-rifle-and-ba-72-carbine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/domestic-burmese-g3s-ba64-rifle-and-ba-72-carbine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Burmese G3s: BA64 Rifle and BA-72 Carbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1ry_hUOdm7c?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>After achieving independence from the British, Burma (now Myanmar) looked to develop a domestic small arms industry to supply its armed forces. The first weapon produced there was the BA-52, a copy of (how they chose this I don&#8217;t know) the Italian TZ-45 submachine gun. By the late 1950s, talks were underway with Rheinmetall and H&#038;K to license production of the G3 at a factory being built with German technical assistance. Ultimately Burma adopted and produced several versions of the G3:<\/p>\n<p>BA-63: A direct copy of the G3<br \/>BA-64: A light machine gun or support variant with a bipod and carry handle<br \/>BA-72: A shortened carbine model<br \/>BA-100: A designated marksman&#8217;s rifle<\/p>\n<p>Today we are looking at a BA-64 that has been rebuilt to BA-63 configuration, and a BA-72 carbine. The BA-72 is really neat to me; not only has the barrel been shortened but the receiver and stock both have been as well, resulting in a very handy and compact little rifle.<\/p>\n<p>Full video on the Italian TZ-45:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/z5RYzCmK4-Q\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/z5RYzCmK4-Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:weaponsandwar.tv After achieving independence from the British, Burma (now Myanmar) looked to develop a domestic small arms industry to supply its armed forces. The first weapon produced there was the BA-52, a copy of (how they chose this I don&#8217;t know) the Italian TZ-45 submachine&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/domestic-burmese-g3s-ba64-rifle-and-ba-72-carbine-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Domestic Burmese G3s: BA64 Rifle and BA-72 Carbine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26772,"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-26771","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\/26771","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=26771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}