9mm and 5.56 are two very different calibers. You can suppress the 9mm to whisper quiet, by loading a heavy bullet sub-sonic. Easy to do and you still have darned good performance--for a 9mm.
5.56? It's going to be supersonic. You can muffle the muzzle blast, but there isn't much you can do...
I was not specific about rifle but in general term (which includes UAV,HMG) that has bin developed under heavy international ban .Even if we consider that specific rifle we can see that have moved away from stamped steel design.
You mentioned that they have oil ,Libya too had oil what happened...
But heavily sanctioned still some of there products can shame our products (if i am not under the influence of some of there propaganda stuff:rolleyes: )
East soviet block countries no doubt had better quality Ak's as they had bin producing the guns for long & once the soviet got dissolved they had lot of surplus AK's for sale at cheep rate .
Robinson XCR Rifile
It's one of the first new assault weapons that was designed to utilize multiple calibers with minimal adjustments. It boasts no loss of zero from barrel removal and replacement, requires only the exchange of the barrel and bolt to swapcalibers between 5.56 Nato, 6.8 SPC and...
from what i understand part of the problem was the gas from the DI system of the colt going into the flooded reciever and possibly a thinner fordging on the upper reciever caused it to crack.
the roller lock guns may hold up better but the bullet still has to push the water out in front of the...