Frag Out! Magazine

After the NATO doors were cracked open with the Partnership for Peace, giving a renewed hope of the full membership soon, the NATO-caliber rifle program was once again hauled forth from the back- burner. NATO-caliber – but not the STANAG magazine: this conversion would have called for a wholesale re-designing of the receiver and so was deemed too expensive. The new Lada had still AK-74 compatible magazine – but was now chambered for the 5.56 mm (even though the surviving samples are stamped '.223'). Several Czech designers and companies approached CZUB in the mean- time, offering other rifles instead. One of them was Ladislav Findorak, ex-Army officer, who endorsed a delayed blowback system based on Soviet Anatoli Baryshev's designs. This was a bold proposition – a com- plete weapon family called LCZ, made up of same design but different size building blocks, which put together were to give anything from automatic rifle up until .50-cal. heavy machinegun and even 30 mm grenade machine gun. CZUB partly financed his scheme and tested the resulting weapons, but chose not to continue. Findorak then started his own company, known under the English-language name of Czech Weapons in Slavicin, but both partners parted in a good mood, and CZUB was impressed with Findorak's ability in weapon designing. Other than Findorak, two other rifles were considered, one designed by a British team for another English-named Czech company, the Moravian Arms Company and the other option was license from Colt's to man- ufacture AR-15 rifles (M16 / M4). CZUB had great designs for the then struggling Colt, but all that was left of it was a less-than-spectacular Colt Z40 pistol – and the starting of the CZ-USA subsidiary, who now owns the Dan Wesson Firearms. The Army of the Czech Republic (Armada once again interested in the new rifle, but to bloom into contracts. The CZUB was to develop the Lada and find a buyer – if to capitalize on the good standing of CZ Kalashnikov derivatives in Western chambering. Lada needed a name that was (a) sexy, the brand. At the turn of the centuries date the buyers and sellers alike, bringing with ty – more so for what was in fact nothing Thus the CZ 2000 was born, sometime sometimes not. The CZ 2000 was a name house use, the whole 'Army Rifle Replacement' Project 805, according to the new classification numbers were assigned according to the rifles and SMGs were assigned series 800 Sa-58 was called the 'CZ 858', and the 9 mm with a fixed stock was the 'XCZ 861'. ENTER Mr. Findorak CZ 2000 vs. Project

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