Immagine if you would, Pakistan deciding to replace its g3's
However pakistan will need something cost effective.
Pakistan further will need something with high reliability,and the ability to do multi missions off one basic design.
Immagine if pakistan was to use the ak-47 as the basis of a new rifle and instead of firing standard 7.62/39 it used the same cartridge but with a .220 bullet (.220 russian is used by precision sport shooters and is incredibly accurate its based off the same cartrige as 7.62/39)
so here you have the high reliability and easy to aquire and manufacture AK in the Following variants
carbine (with shorter barell and a folding stock)
Rifle (Full barell and Folding stock for light weight)
Support Rifle(Heavy barell and bipod full stock for aupported automatic fire)
Sniper/Marksmans rifle (Heavy Barell and bipod)
Next you will need a Heavier rifle and a True General Purpose machine gun
I suggest attempting to convert the Mg.03 to 7.62/54 russian rimmed as in interm solution
The choice of .338 by most of the worlds special ops for long range engagements would be perfect for both a precision sniper rifle and heavy tripod based machine gun. Again I believe the old robust mg.03 could be modified to fire .338 LM
In closing we must remember that the mg.3 is a weapon which originated in world war two , it has been put into several dozen calibres from 7.92/57, 7.62/51 7.62/54 .
However pakistan will need something cost effective.
Pakistan further will need something with high reliability,and the ability to do multi missions off one basic design.
Immagine if pakistan was to use the ak-47 as the basis of a new rifle and instead of firing standard 7.62/39 it used the same cartridge but with a .220 bullet (.220 russian is used by precision sport shooters and is incredibly accurate its based off the same cartrige as 7.62/39)
so here you have the high reliability and easy to aquire and manufacture AK in the Following variants
carbine (with shorter barell and a folding stock)
Rifle (Full barell and Folding stock for light weight)
Support Rifle(Heavy barell and bipod full stock for aupported automatic fire)
Sniper/Marksmans rifle (Heavy Barell and bipod)
Next you will need a Heavier rifle and a True General Purpose machine gun
I suggest attempting to convert the Mg.03 to 7.62/54 russian rimmed as in interm solution
The choice of .338 by most of the worlds special ops for long range engagements would be perfect for both a precision sniper rifle and heavy tripod based machine gun. Again I believe the old robust mg.03 could be modified to fire .338 LM
In closing we must remember that the mg.3 is a weapon which originated in world war two , it has been put into several dozen calibres from 7.92/57, 7.62/51 7.62/54 .