It’s exactly what Red Army had been wanting even before WWII, a single family of automated rifle to replace almost all former rifles and submachine guns.
They tried it back in late 1930s, but turn out AVS was problematic, and SVT got manufacturing and maintenance issue that they never got resolved before the Great Patriotic War.
(Imagine what could have been if the Red Army was fully equipped with self-loading rifles when Nazi German invaded in 1941.)
Interestingly, the American ran into several of the same problem that the Soviet had with AVS when they adopted M14 battle rifle into service. While the American did have intermediate cartridge in service, they did not adopted an equivalent rifles into service for at least a decade.
It’s exactly what Red Army had been wanting even before WWII, a single family of automated rifle to replace almost all former rifles and submachine guns.
They tried it back in late 1930s, but turn out AVS was problematic, and SVT got manufacturing and maintenance issue that they never got resolved before the Great Patriotic War.
(Imagine what could have been if the Red Army was fully equipped with self-loading rifles when Nazi German invaded in 1941.)
Interestingly, the American ran into several of the same problem that the Soviet had with AVS when they adopted M14 battle rifle into service. While the American did have intermediate cartridge in service, they did not adopted an equivalent rifles into service for at least a decade.