“About 1 thousand of the latest AK-12 assault rifles will be delivered as part of the state defense order for arming the guards tank army of the Western Military District in 2020,” Interfax quotes Army Commander Major General Sergey Kisel.
According to him, the military will develop a new machine at the training grounds near Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod.
On November 11, the chief designer of Kalashnikov Sergey Urzhumtsev announced that the concern plans to transfer all AK-12 assault rifles under the 2018 contract to the Russian Ministry of Defense ahead of schedule.