Al-Quds
Notes: Though most countries employing Russian weapons generally use the RPK or RPK-74 as a squad automatic weapon, the Iraqis chose to instead modify a standard AKM for this purpose. The Al-Quds is therefore a Tabuk Assault Rifle with a longer, heavier barrel, and with cooling fins added beneath the gas cylinder. Though it can use the 40 and 75-round RPK magazines, it is normally encountered with standard 30-round AKM magazines. The bipod can be easily removed and the Al-Quds used as a large assault rifle and reduces weight by 1.4 kg.
It is possible that the Al-Quds isn’t even an Iraqi design; it is virtually identical to a weapon was designed by the Bulgarians (but with a folding stock), called the RKKS.
Twilight 2000 Notes: Al-Quds SAWs were in fact supplemented with actual RKKSs during the Twilight War.
Merc 2000 Notes: Al Qaida was known to employ suicide squads that were often armed with this weapon and using 75-round drums.
Weapon |
Ammunition |
Weight |
Magazines |
Price |
Al-Quds |
7.62mm Kalashnikov |
5 kg |
30, 40, 75 Drum |
$1961 |
Weapon |
ROF |
Damage |
Pen |
Bulk |
SS |
Burst |
Range |
Al-Quds |
5 |
4 |
2-3-Nil |
6 |
3 |
8 |
65 |
Al-Quds (Bipod) |
5 |
4 |
2-3-Nil |
6 |
2 |
4 |
84 |
Al-Quds (Bipod Removed) |
5 |
4 |
2-3-Nil |
6 |
4 |
9 |
65 |