The STV-215 /380 Series - Vietnam's New Infantry Rifle 

Nice info VoDoo, your name makes me thing you are vietnamese with the name is: Vũ Đỗ ^^!

@@tm02019 that beautiful rifle in vietnam I see you from vietnam because your name 🇺🇸❤️🇻🇳

KAVEEER ALMIGHTY GOD 🙏-🙏-🙏-🙏

You be right

They’ve done it better than China and Russia.

🇻🇪🇻🇳 🤠👍¡great looking rifles!, they look quite robust. Btwy, ¿what does Súng Truong mean? 🤔.

@@tamanako2507 Súng mean Gun, Trường mean Long. So so Súng Trường mean Rifle.

It's sucked how we have to uses a Rifles with extensive upgrade and refinement form a long history of the thing being uses for hunting down Natives by settler colonialist. Their weapons, the Israeli weapons are good because they have countless test subject in their concentrations camps and are refine through such mean.

Bruh, Việt Nam không có khái niệm súng trường tấn công STV là Súng Tiểu liên Việt Nam Ở đất này không có khái niệm súng trường tấn công

@@nguyenphuoc4834 tui lại cứ tưởng là súng tự vệ STV chứ, ự nước này không tấn công

:)))

No, it’s just a modified ACE chambered in 7.62x39 that utilizes AK magazines. You don’t know what your talking about

So basically an ak12

The vietnamese dont care about it. They design and build to their own requirements.

@@tamanako2507 corruption is strong in the PAVN

Và bạn là tay sai của mỹ và đã đào tẩu khỏi đất nước 😂😂

The galil ace came with better interlocking designs and machining to make the gun stiffer to increase accuracy and stability to mount optics. Also, AKM fire selector acts as dust cover.

@@TrungNguyen-uf8cv using AKM selector as dust cover is kinda downgrade not upgrade.

Finally someone in the comments that doesn’t have their head up their butt

Tôi đồng ý với bạn điều đó. Việt Nam cũng thích dùng ak nhiều hơn.

After we get the license to made the Galil Ace, then modified to STV line. There's no future purchase of Tavor line for the Marines, they will be armed with STV line from now on. The trigger on the Tavor is good for bullpup rifle but not as good as the Galil Ace/STV.

we dont have m4

Actually we have M16, also some modfied M16 to make it more versatile for spec ops unit, such as Anti-Terrorist Commando or Airborne Commando, or recon unit

It would drive me insane being interested in firearms but not able to own any. Games just can't replicate that feeling of loading a magazine, chambering a round pulling the trigger. I'll never forget the first time I shot an AKM when I was 10 years old.

What's up with thr Afghan flag next to Russia and Mexico lol

Does it bother you??

Mr kalashnikov design will remain till ww3

the galil kinda looked like the ak influence

@@jmgonzales7701 The Israelis captured thousands of AK-pattern rifles from the Egyptian Army during the 6 Days War of 1967. They noticed that AKs were much more reliable and controllable than the FAL rifles that they had.

Is a copy

IWI set up the factory.

@@Comander311 galil is copy of kalashnikov so its ok

@@zorangradjanski What? Galil?

Hello, Vietnamese here. Our country buy GALI ACE license in 2015 and after 5 year of testing, we try develop our version with IWI approved. So STV ( Súng trường Việt) version will become our assault rifle family in many years to come. We also bought so may license of IWI and testing it while developing our own version suitable with our defence doctrine. With our history of 70 years war with France, American and friends, Japanese, Chinese , I'm sure that we know what to do with gun and other stuff to make them suitable for war in many way.

Thanks 😍

Nhiều mẫu súng sau này được chế tạo dựa vào nguyên mẫu khẩu súng STG-44 của người Đức.

​@@tytoituoi4441 riêng AK thì không, AK có cơ chế hoạt động dựa trên M1 Garand và dựa trên nhiều mẫu thử nghiện từ AS-44. STG là cha đẻ của M16, G3. nhìn M16 trông có vẻ quá khác lạ so với STG, nhưng đó chỉ là cái vỏ thôi, tháo cái vỏ đó ra thì 2 khẩu này y hệt nhau

Who cares? 🤣

​@@songvui1209 You may not care but there are many others who care :)

@@songvui1209 I care my friend

​@@songvui1209 us

@@songvui1209 I care.

there are more than 9 million reserves so just cutting out the optics would be an economic choice

@@ok-gs5ly Yeah not everybody needs an optic

Over 100 million AKs sold, such numbers speak for themselves. M16 from Nasa and Harvard know it all don't even reach 10 million.

You must had been shooting from older AKs. Modern AK-15 and recent versions of AK-74M in Russian army have their attachments to mount optics

Yeah we vietnamese have been using these AK's for many decades, so using the 7.62x39 cartridges just bcs there're a lot of this in vietnam. And made this thing look like a AK for the only reason that we more fond of AK's than the other (Of course, for the political and mental factors reason you've mentioned I totally agree :v)

bởi vi mấy chục năm nay mọi thứ chẳng khác mấy, trừ Drones

Familiarity. Just like US looking for M4 replacement with similar M4 controls.

Exactly, aside from the rear charging handle, the controls on an ar15 are just the most intuitive set of controls for small arms for over half a century now.

stupid decision.

It just one of many test example

The highlight is that the components inside the gun have been replaced with parts of the old Ak that are easy to use and repair

it's just there for show or whatever, for dovetail mounted optics we just use our own akm clone which has the mount

If you've handled an AK you'd know that the top cover is very loose so it's much more complicated to get it to hold zero. While the Soviet side mount on the receiver is very strong and hold zero very well. Besides there are aftermarket adapters.

to make it cheaper and easier to copy and mass-produce as vietnam doesn't have alot of weapon industries. Vietnam relied mostly on refurbished and imported weapons both old and new, so this is better for them.

@@jmantime Considering the age of much of Vietnam's reserve firearm stocks they would be wise to finally phase out the WW2 and the most worn out Vietnam War era leftovers. The more expensive versions should go to elite troops and police units. The cheaper versions should be used as a general issue for their mainline conventional and reservist forces while their militia units should be rearmed with the mid to late Cold War era stuff. Their militia still has M1 Garands and M1919s in the inventory.

Not DeACE, VN just adapted the guns to fit the habit of using AK47, as untill that point Vietnam military forces are mostly familiar with the old AK 47, ALL MAIN FEATURES OF GALI ACE ARE TILL REMAIN

In an interview, an officer revealed that the Galil ace was tested in several units. In general, the troops love the new guns, but they don't want some features. The frontal handguard is too big, they don't like the charging handle and the safety. So they have to "DeACEd it" and keep what the troops like such as the sight, magazine guide, and some rails...

The main points of the Galil ACE are the better sights, rails, and accuracy, so I’d they get those features, they’ll be aight.

dude, sorry but ak 12 is crap , i really hoped it will be awsome... this comes from slav

@@tk1850 AK-15 is reworked and better

@@mrobocop1666 lol z westerner comments ak 15 is not enter the service all russian soldier all ways use ak 74m and 101 to 105

Lol russian tech destroy by ukrainians 😆😆😆

@@ralphace3071 Ukraine is still using a lot of weapons made by Soviet Union and Russia. Russian high technological weapon is destroying Western weapons day after day!

The rail is to mount a rice cooker above the gas tube. Can also be used to warm tea.

@@5Ring Why yes, the Tactical rice cooker is a fundamental equipment of the Vietnamese people.

Most soldier wont have it, as Vietnamese tactics favor cqb.

@@PMC_Schicksal Still, even at close range, a reflex or red dot is much more effective than tangent sights. I would suspect funding.

Like the western dye job

Probably not, the only rounds you mentioned that was use in Vietnamese Army is the 5.56.

Daewoo K2 is actually a Korean step brother of the AR-18, if you think about it.

basically a Draco if you think about it.

@@kaboomvn201 AK family :))

some versions do have them included but the military force are primarily conscripts and militia so no Picatinny rail would make a lot of sense as a relief on the manufacturing and cost

Những người lính Việt Nam không sử dụng ống ngắm. Những lực lượng đặc nhiệm được trang bị kính ngắm trên súng.

Extreme cost cutting measures. Most scripts won't ever get their hands on optics, not to mention most optics won't go there anyway

Because it simply doesn't have to be that long, Vietnamese people need efficiency rather than aesthetics.

Đó là vị trí để cài kính ngắm điểm đỏ vào và đẩy tới hoặc kéo lùi lại

Its mainly based off ak series. A hybrid of many guns.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/RK62.jpg/450px-RK62.jpg looks patently Kalashnikov ... modified as the Finns do SOO well

As i remember is was based of AK and FAL

It is.

我是越南人，我喜欢祖国的STV枪，但我也喜欢战友的QBZ-95/191枪。祝越中友谊地久天长

Still an assault rifle

@@venturatheace1 it's an assault rifle outside Vietnam. Because Vietnam never use such that term, we never called it " assault rifle", same for AK-47 when Kalashnikov designated it as a submachine gun

@@venturatheace1 since we designated it as a submachine gun, then it's not an assault rifle

@@venturatheace1 same goes for MP-44 and AK-47, they never an assault rifle because no one call it like so, even for the "MP" in MP-44 mean "Maschinepistole", Sturmgewehr is just a fancy name and never use to call an assault rifle. AK-47 never an assault rifle because at the time it was introduced, the term "assault rifle" wasn't exist before, and Kalashnikov design it as a submachine gun to replace a submachine gun then AK-47 is a machine gun. STV series is not submachine gun because we don't call it like so

what the fuck are you smoking??

@@alphapham2060 Bruh.....are he's high or stupid?

AK help us to win the guerilla war but now it sucks

Milled has its advantages. Milled has better durability. And although stamped is cheaper per-unit, the machinery is much more complex. And lastly the Israelis are the only ones willing to provide every technical details, metallurgy included.

The Galil Ace is a far superior over the standard Kalashnikov

So basically the CMMG Mutant.

Vietnamese choices in weaponry purchase really depend on balance between cost, training and not most but quite a big problem geopolitical. AR platform weapon are expensive and US congress will not happy if a company sell firearms in mass to Vietnam. Changing service rifle or caliber is too costly for a small country with big army like us too.

@@khanhbonmat You did not understand very well. I suggested an AR-15 adapted to fire the 7.62x39 that is the cartridge most used in the AK of which there is a lot of in vietnam. I did not suggest that they buy AR-15s but that they manufacture them if they could. that is the entire point of the video that vietnam is designing and making their own rifles. I realize that my writing in English could be misunderstood by Vietnamese, but I am sorry in that I can not speak Vietnamese at all. Also there are many sources of AR-15 rifles beside the USA and I am not so sure that the USA would oppose the Viets having ARs. After all the Viets did fight off a Chinese invasion.

@@loquat44-40 from my knowledge, our defense department want to buy not only license but the whole technology and factory production when they want a new rifle, Russian company did ask if we want to buy license and the whole factory production of ak-100 series but we decline because it’s so expensive. Dunno if any western company offered some kind of deal like that yet.

@@khanhbonmat I do not think that any part of the AR15 rifles require licenses to make. Now buying a production package from the USA, I do not know about that. I do know that AR-15 rifles that have been around for more 60 years can be made by any private factory in the USA. The parts can be very cheap and many civilians assemble their own rifles. In other words after a certain period of time the patents no longer exist. Now the big issue for export of military technology from the USA does require the permission of the State Department. But the AR-15/M16 is made in many places. The chinese make an unlicensed copy of it. The Type CQ is an unlicensed Chinese variant of the M16 rifle manufactured by Norinco.[3] According to the Norinco website, the rifle is officially known as CQ 5.56.[4] It can be distinguished from other AR-15 and M-16 pattern rifles by its long, revolver-like pistol grip, somewhat rounded handguards, and the unique shape of its stock. Perhaps Norinco would sell a production package for their rifles. The biggest issue for the manufacture of the AR-15/M16 is aluminum extrusion technology and that might be lacking in Vietnam.

Why?? because you weapons made by china and russia

cuz we are asian

I mean...just look at the fk thing, is this look like a "high quality" products?

​@@ralphace3071we only buying weapons from Russia and a few countries but we not buying Chinese weapons

​@@gamept571our weapons are high quality products, there is no problem at all

The receiver is milled steel(like the over version of AKs). Very durable but it's bad for the guy carrying while on patrol.

I actually had a GALIL AR 556 for a long time. It was almost a 10lb. rifle when loaded with 35 rounds.@@alphapham2060

Mấy ông VN phân loại bị ngáo chứ khẩu này không phải Assault Rifle thì là cái gì? Tiểu liên hiện đại là những khẩu như MP5, nhỏ gọn, bắn các cỡ đạn nhỏ hơn và giật nhẹ hơn chứ chả tiểu liên nào bắn 7.62.

@@PMC_Schicksal khối xhcn phân loại, ko phải tự VN đặt như vậy, bạn có thể tìm hiểu thêm

Thật ra lúc đầu giới thiệu khẩu này thì tui xem trên kênh của quốc phòng có nói là STV là Súng Trường Việt Nam Nhưng gần đây thì đổi lại thành Súng Tiểu liên Việt Nam :v

@@Webley_Fosbery nhờ bạn tìm lại video nào nói thế đc ko, mình xem từ mấy năm trước đã nói là tiểu liên r, nước mình ko phân loại như phương tây mà phân stv vào súng trường đc

@@tranhung7307 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hty6rqxGPf0.htmlsi=z82tQ6LlnCIOrxOu

No, the standard is stv380/215, Other rifles just stop at prototypes

From the amount of images here, not many rifles have optics on them. This is the situation just like the russian army with the AK12, lots of new rifles and not a lot of scopes that come with them.

Tubular mags are not more versatile than drum mags. They are just as cumbersome and heavy as drum mags themselves.

Wonder if got it to work

That’s referred to as a helical drum. Tubular is different.

Believe that helical mag holds 80-90 rounds ,they use it on there akm 74 copies so I could see it honestly holding 90 plus

I think because of the hand size of a grown vietnamese man smaller than most isarel people or western people so they make it look smaller but still clanky corners

@@kranesus5284 exactly