I like how the buffer spring on the AK is not in ther rear stock like it is on the AR.
“I like how the buffer spring on the AK is not in ther rear stock like it is on the AR”.
That is an advantage to ease facilitate the equipping of AK variants with a folding stock, but the downside is that they do not have the feature of near in line with the stock axis movement of the recoiling parts which, in addition to the low recoil impulse of the 5.56 cartridge, makes the AR/M16 variants so controllable, particularly when firing in automatic or burst mode.
I’m told the rear axle of the Soviet version of the jeep, the Zil, was welded directly to the frame.
Springs are for sissies...