{"id":29644,"date":"2026-05-30T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/explaining-the-yugoslav-zastava-m70-series-of-rifles\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:00:12","slug":"explaining-the-yugoslav-zastava-m70-series-of-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/explaining-the-yugoslav-zastava-m70-series-of-rifles\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the Yugoslav \/ Zastava M70 Series of Rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xHuJu0c5n0k?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Yugoslavia never received a technical data package or license for the AK; they reverse engineered the system themselves in the 1960s. In the process, they created a version of the AK noted for its ruggedness. In addition, they added a number of features to facilitate rifle grenade usage. Over the course of many iterations the rifle remained designated the M70, leading to a lot of confusion about what models are what. Today we are going through the whole series of changes.<\/p>\n<p>M70 &#8211; Original milled receiver, with bolt hold-open, fixed stock, and screwed-in barrel<br \/>M70A &#8211; Underfolder version of the M70<\/p>\n<p>M70B &#8211; Milled receiver, pinned-in barrel, standard magazines, fixed stock<br \/>M70AB &#8211; Underfolder version of M70B<\/p>\n<p>M70B1 &#8211; Stamped receiver (1.5mm), bulged trunnion, fixed stock<br \/>M70AB1 &#8211; Stamped receiver (0.9mm), flat trunnion, underfolder<br \/>M70AB2 &#8211; Stamped receiver (1.5mm), bulged trunnion, underfolder<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Zastava USA for making this video possible!<\/p>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><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>Yugoslavia never received a technical data package or license for the AK; they reverse engineered the system themselves in the 1960s. In the process, they created a version of the AK noted for its ruggedness. In addition, they added a number of features to facilitate rifle grenade usage. Over the course of many iterations the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/explaining-the-yugoslav-zastava-m70-series-of-rifles\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explaining the Yugoslav \/ Zastava M70 Series of Rifles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29645,"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-29644","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\/29644","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=29644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}