The Probert Encyclopaedia of Warfare

M70

The M70 (originally called the M64 Assault Rifle) is a Yugoslavian gas-operated selective fire assault rifle resembling the Soviet AK47. The M70 is chambered for the 7.62 mm X 39 cartridge which it takes from a 30-round curved box magazine and fires with a muzzle velocity of 700 metres per second to an effective range of 400 metres with a cyclic rate of between 600 and 650 rounds per minute. The M70 is fitted with a pillar foresight and tangent notch rearsight and a permanently attached grenade launcher sight. The M70 has a wooden stock, a folding metal stock model is also produced as the M70A.
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