Frag Out! Magazine

BROŃ - FIREARMS (Armada Ceske Republiky, ACR) was but this interest eventually failed was now left with no other way than if not at home, then abroad, trying CZ brand and the need for modern chambering. But to sell abroad the sexy, (b) involved 'CZ' to marry it to date '2000' seemed to mesmerize with it a promise of the moderni - nothing more than a face-lifted AKM. accompanied by the name Lada, name used only for PR – for the in- Replacement' program was dubbed the classification scheme, in which model the nature of the product. Assault 800 – that's why the civilian-legal mm silenced Skorpion prototype It was only in late 2005, that CZUB decided to go whole hog and make their own rifle anew. The Army was not yet inclined to change the battle rifle in whole of the military, but they nevertheless man- aged to buy a batch of Bushmaster M4A3s for the Special Forces. The situation could have slipped out of hand, if the Army continued to re-arm itself piecemeal, instead of a large-scale re-armament – so the CZUB bolted into action. A totally new specification was drawn, finally putting the stillborn Lada to rest. The new rifle was first called the 'CZ XX', then 'CZ S805'. The S stood for 'special' to differentiate it from regular CZ 805 (no S), being a tricked-out Lada carbine with rails all over and an ambidextrous selector lever, designed for India (but never bought). This new design was meant to get CZUB to the forefront of the world's rifle evolution, constituting a totally new multi-caliber mod- ular platform – much in the SCAR flavor. There were to be two sets of building blocks, one (with 'A' in model designation) for three in- termediate rounds (5.56x45 mm, 6.8SPC and 7.62x39 mm), and the other ('B') for rifle calibers – and that's not only 7.62x51 mm mind you, but .300 Win Mag as well! Each of these could have been fitted with three lengths of barrels, to became a Battle Rifle ('1' designa- tor), CQB Carbine ('2') or the DMR/LSW ('3') fire support weapon. Thus a rifle in 5.56 mm would be an 'A1', while a carbine in 7.62x51 mm would be a 'B2', and soon. The New Rifle Project 805

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