Talk:AK-74

Major Revision
I've revised this article and tried to clear up some misunderstandings, fantasies, and conjecture, and bad ballistics understanding surrounding the 5.45 x 39 mm cartridge and bullet. It's arranged as more of a complement to the AK-47 page but differs in the necessary areas.

Bullet Yaw is against international law?
The only international law concerning rifle bullets used in war is rifle hollow points. They're not allowed. In one case where a US bullet has a tiny HP on top, there were some controversy, in which it was deem acceptable because the bullet, despite the tiny HP, did not perform like a regular rifle HP. However, I do not know of any law that concerns with bullet yaw, and said bullet yaw not only occurs when soft targets are struck, but covers such as wood. A comparison of the AK-47 and M16 by a show on Discovery Channel (I suspect it was in collaboration with BBC, it has mainly British experts and a British narrator) had a high-speed shot of the AK bullet tumbling end to end after passing through a wooden barrier.

The Hague Convention of 1899 & 1907, Declaration III, and international treaty, covers the prohibited use of expanding ammunition. 26 countries attended, Mexico and the United States were the only two countries in attendance from the Americas. Russia was a participant at the 1899 & 1907 conventions. No cite was found showing they signed either treaty. Link follows:Link to Hague Convention Declaration III

there are 2 pieces of this article which are the exact same
there is a section of the iron sights section which has the exact same wording as a paragraph from the AKS-74U section. I've taken a break from editing wikipedia a lot, and I would fix this except I'm not sure if I would do more damage than good to this article Firestar9990 (talk) 12:44, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Erroneous photo
The photo of the standard AK-74M is of an airsoft gun.

Compare the folding stock button at the rear of the receiver to the one in the photo of the '74M with the underbarrel grenade launcher-- on the airsoft gun its corners are squared off rather than rounded, and it lacks the hole drilled out, this is because airsoft versions of this part are typically cast from cheap zinc alloy, these modifications make the part (slightly) stronger.

The pistol grip is also much fatter than a real AK grip, and the grip is set at a more acute angle. The magazine lacks a manufacturers' mark. The top cover is stamped, as on a standard AK-74, rather than smooth, as on the real '74M. It also has a different finish from the receiver, unlike on the real gun. The release/retainer button for the top cover has an additional vertical pin that must be depressed before the top cover can be removed, this is absent on the airsoft gun.

Someone find a photo of a real one please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A000:7FC0:6:D4D2:AA67:6F75:7E0D (talk) 03:03, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Image Problem
There is something wrong with the image at the top of the sidebar. There are a load of multicoloured pixels around the outline of the gun, and the background is black. They're not there in the original on Commons (and it has a transparent background). Not sure if it's something wrong in the article or a bug in Commons. It looks the same in multiple browsers so I don't think it's an issue at my end.

DDFoster96 (talk) 22:37, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * This is the image on commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ak74l.png
 * And this is the small version of it shown at the top of the sidebar: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Ak74l.png/300px-Ak74l.png