Another tragic incident at Peshawar airport

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Re: Another tragic incident at Peshawar airport

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The weaponry needed for this type of attack is not sophisticated either. It is unlikely to be a Kalashnikov, because it doesn’t have the range or accuracy needed. But instead any of the many-russian pattern light machine like a RPK-74 or a PK-series light machine gun (of which there are many thousands floating around after the Russian war in Afghanistan, and which is mechanically simple enough to be even be duplicated by home weapon smiths in the Frontier) have the range and velocity to do this. You just need tracers rounds in the ammo feed to see roughly how far away from the airplane the bullets are going and you can correct your fire onto it.

Attention everyone: I’d like to call out the fact that I got the weapon and method EXACTLY corrrect.

Taliban’s Geedar group behind firing on PIA’s Peshawar flight, say officials - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

He said assailants had affixed an extra barrel to an AK-47 rifle to enhance its fire range and used tracer bullets to ensure that they hit the target.

The RPK-74 is the extended barrel version of the AK-47. And they used tracer bullets to assist with aiming, as I stated earlier.