And for those who don't speak Russian:
The Russian army might abandon the 5.45 mm caliber cartridges
Moscow, 5 Feb — RIA Novosti. Army considering abandon rounds of 5.45 millimeter, write the authors of the book "Rocket-artillery maintenance and technical support of the armed forces of the Russian Federation-2018".
The article reported that such a decision may result from insufficient breakdown action bullets on medium and high range.
As an analogue of experts from 3-rd CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE of the Ministry of Defense offered to consider the possibility of modernizing the ammunition and weapons of a calibre 7.62 millimeter.
At the moment Russian army uses two types of gun calibers-5.45 and 7.62 mm.
5.45 x 39 mm cartridge entered service in the seventies of last century, it was under he designed the AK-74. This cartridge weighs less than 7.62 millimeter caliber bullets that allows the arrow to increase the carried ammunition.
In addition, it has a higher trajectory, nastilnostju and small recoil impulse, that allows you to shoot more aptly.
Pitfalls
Some experts emphasize that refraining from rounds of 5.45 millimeter is only assumption authors published. For example, a Russian specialist in the field of small arms by Maxim Popenker considered such a scenario unlikely.
"I have great doubts about the fact that weapons of this caliber fully refuse our ground forces," he said.
Popenker noted that this decision carries "a lot of pitfalls."