in late 1950's americans created the AR-15 and then the M16 for the vietnam war - but soviets quickly caught up to something - the damn calliber was much lighter than the one used in the M14's, soldiers could carry almost 2 times more ammunition with the same weight (7.62x51mm NATO). so in the USSR they made mikhail kalashnikov do another gun and the thing was clear - make the damn thing lighter and shoot a lighter calliber - so soviets threw out the idea with steel magazines like it was with the AK-47's and AKM's and made a lighter but orange and bright as hell magazine and a new calliber - 5.45x39mm. he also added cuts on each sides of the stock so that you could know in darkness what gun you're holding and added a big round of metal on the end of the barrel - muzzle brake, and completely threw out the idea with compensators like it was in the AKM, the porotytypes were created in 1974 and the mass production began 2 years later in 1976. the weapon was firstly mass used in the soviet afghan war. in the beggining of the war soviet soldiers didn't want the AK-74 and very oftetnly stole AKM's from mujahideens, but very quickly the gun gained respect. in 1991 soviets created the AK-74m - which combined the features of the AK-74 (more comfortable stock), AKS-74 (the ability to fold the stock) and AK-74N (side rails which allowed rails and adding scopes like NSPU or IP-29) and made the furniture (grip, stock, handguard) from black polimer instead of wood/plum. but in the 1990's russia was experiencing a crisis after the collapse of USSR (which also resulted in a short conflict in moscow between democratics and communists) and mostly AK-74's and AKS-74's were given do russians, chechen because they also in 1992 claimed a large percent of equipment from soviet bases in chechnya also had a load of these guns.
the AK-74 in my pack replaces crossbow. it has custom gunshot effects and off hand postion. it's meant to be a addon to my main pack but can be used without it. if you want to use it with the main pack then override it and you now have AK-74 instead of AKS-74. it haS custom russian, english and polish lang and it DOESN'T need optifine
