Summary
The White House has directed the State and Treasury Departments to draft a proposal for lifting some U.S. sanctions on Russia as part of Trump’s effort to restore ties and end the Ukraine war.
The proposal could ease restrictions on select Russian entities and oligarchs, though it’s unclear what the U.S. would receive in return.
Trump has signaled openness to sanctions relief despite previously threatening harsher measures.
Talks between U.S. and Russian officials have intensified, with economic cooperation, including rare earth minerals, emerging as a key topic.
That 7.62 is not the same as NATO 7.62. The AK round has the diameter but not the length, weight or amount of gunpowder.
You are right that it doesn’t matter that much compared to 5.56, for a battle rifle, but NATO 7.62 is much more powerful and weighs a shitload more. It’s what I use to shoot 700m (and as I said above what US special forces still use as the standard sniper rifle M21)
Russia has been using 5.45 since the 70s (The ones with the brown magazine instead of black). I know the Czech SAR models were available in 5.56x45, 5.45x56, and 7.62x39 (NATO is 7.62x51)
You mean our RK 7.62 or the weird Russian 7.62?
I don’t know that much about bullets tbh, it’s been closer to 20 years since I was in the army. I do remberer practicing the operation and dismantling and reassembly of the most commonly used Russian 7.62 machine gun(can’t remember named model whatever but I do remberer the sequence) and that cartridge was way bigger and kinda clunky but still a 7.62 bullet
Edit wait idk that its the most common but was common enough for us to train against
I don’t know enough about your weapons systems. I only know about US (and thus NATO) small arms and the subsequent AK variants up through the 90s. I have no knowledge of other countries’ squad weapons or larger).
I looked it up, nato round is 7.62x51, ours is 7.62x39
The Russian machine gun uses 7.62x54mmR
No knowledge of our squad weapons, so maybe not they much from the squads either. Perhaps… You’d enjoy watching some?
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Some of it is in English but most is Finnish, some Swedish. Excellent CC no ai-generated shit. It’s made by the FDF, Finnish Defence Forces. It’s essentially a video of what would happen between an invasion if a… cough cough Eastern neighbour, happened to attack.
Jeesus, I loved being in the army so much and my nowadays person who uses 95% English is such a different person from the person I was when doing my conscription, that I turned on the CC to check it’s okay and every sentence gives me could chills for some reason. I know how to translate this obviously. But it’s some weird clash between my English personality and Finnish 20y ago personality. Not bad. Good.