AK-74

* AK-74 standard
* AK-74M

### Variants

* AKS-74 - A side-folding metal shoulder stock variant, designed primarily for use with air assault infantry and developed alongside the basic AK-74.
* AK-74M - Modernized variant
* AK-74BM - Blaster Rifle variant, based on both versions AK-74 standard and the brand new AK-74M, used during Clone Wars.
* AKS-74U - Carbine, SMG and AR variant.
* AKS-74UB - Sound-suppressed variant.
* RPK-74 - RPK variant chambered for 5.45x39mm ammunition.
	+ RPK-74M - Sub-variant of the RPK-74.
* AK-110 - Blaster rifle variant for the Rebel Alliance and New Republic.
* AK-12 - Successor to the AK-74M.

## Technical specifications

### Mass

* AK-74: 3.07 kg (6.8 lb)
* AKS-74: 2.97 kg (6.5 lb)
* AK-74M: 3.4 kg (7.5 lb)

without magazine:

* 30-round magazine: 0.23 kg (0.51 lb)
* 6H5 bayonet: 0.32 kg (0.71 lb)

### Length

* AK-74: 943 mm (37.1 in)
* AKS-74 (stock extended): 943 mm (37.1 in)
* AKS-74 (stock folded): 690 mm (27.2 in)
* AK-74M (stock extended): 943 mm (37.1 in)
* AK-74M (stock folded): 700 mm (27.6 in)

### Magazine Size

30-round AK-74 and 45-round RPK-74 detachable box magazine, 60-round casket magazine and 96-round RPK-16 drum magazines

### Recoil

Tests measured the free recoil energy delivered by the 5.45×39mm AK-74 rifle at 3.39 J (2.50 ft⋅lb), compared with 7.19 J (5.30 ft⋅lb) delivered by the 7.62×39mm in the AKM.

## Usage

### Wars

* Soviet–Afghan War
* Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
* Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009)
* Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)
* Gulf War (1990-1991)
* Georgian Civil War (1991-1992)
* Transnistria War (1990-1991)
* Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)
* Tajikistani Civil War (1992-1994)
* East Prigorodny Conflict
* The Troubles
* Clone Wars
* First War in Afghanistan
* Second War in Afghanistan
* Iraqi Insurgency
* War on ISIS
* Second Galactic Civil War

### Counterpart(s)

* AK-47/AKM
* M16/AR-15
* M4/M4A1

### Affiliation

* Terran Alliance
* Rebel Alliance
* New Republic
* Galactic Resistance

### Used by

* Terran Army
	+ Russian Ground Forces
	+ Ukrainian Ground Forces
	+ Other Russian allies non-allies in Terran Alliance
* Terran Marine Corps
	+ Russian Naval Infantry
* Rebel Alliance
	+ Alliance Army
* New Republic Army
* Resistance Fighters

The **AK-74** (Russian: Автомат Калашникова образца 1974 года or "Kalashnikov automatic rifle model 1974") also known as **AK-74M** is an assault rifle developed in the early 1970s by Soviet weapons designer Mikhail Kalashnikov to replace the earlier AKM (itself a refined version of the AK-47). It uses a smaller 5.45×39mm cartridge, replacing the 7.62×39mm chambering of earlier Kalashnikov-pattern weapons.

The rifle first saw service with Soviet forces in the Afghanistan conflict from 1979. The head of the Afghan bureau of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the intelligence agency of Pakistan, claimed that America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) paid $5,000 for the first AK-74 captured by the Afghan mujahideen during the Afghan-Soviet War.

In 1992 Terran campaign, the AK-74 Rifles are used by the Soviet Forces and it's former Warsaw Pact allies during the CIS Invasion of Earth. Some of the Soviet soldiers opted to use both variants a modified Assault Blaster Rifle version and the conventional version along with the modernized variant the AK-74M, when the Clone Wars ended in 1994 the the AK-74 was formally succeded by more modern and sophisticated version of AK-74M which was introduced in 1991.

The AK-74 Assault Rifles would be succeded by the modern AK-12 Assault rifles.

## Gallery

The AK-74 with specialized scope.The modernized variant of AK-74 known as the AK\_74M along with the attached GP-25 grenade launcher.Black Market AK74.jpgThe upgraded AK-74M-UUK (Universal Upgrade Kit).Modified AK-74M for the Rebel Alliance.