Ok...lets beat this 5 or so year old dead horse a little more
GM's fav-o-rite game......what if?
Now, lets say for gets and shiggles, they got the rifle correct, say it "was" designed for an SKS. Ok, I'll be nice...I'll play ball in this court
But, now ... let look at another querk.. Romania is claimed to be the user. Ummmkay.
Why couldn't Yugoslavia been the user... the non-aligned, non-Warsaw pact nation, why would Romania a Warsaw pact nation use a Nato launcher....... Who/what nation had gotten a fascination with spigot launchers, where almost every model AK had a launcher as well. Yugoslavia also had relations, even an embassy(Romania don't) with uhm..Belgium, who also incidentally manufactured the Energa system made by MECAR. Tito was one of the few Eastern European leaders able to stand up to Russia, I think he was trying slowly to pull out of the harsh communism with some early relations with the rest of the NATO nations, even the US. Would Mother Russia even allow Romania who was under Russian control to even use a NATO launcher without some kind of repercussions? Russia went nuts when the Czechs changed to 7.62x45 ammo...it goes against their logistical weapons supply, which is why they were forced back to x39.
Who also developed and shoved a 22mm NATO sized launcher, like France, the UK, Spain and the US on their M59/66. Is it so far fetched, they wouldn’t have tried these launchers on the M59, which lead to the M59/66 development after finding out all the weaknesses in the carbine for launching? Or did Yugoslavia hope by the graces of the war gods that simply copying the CETME, FNFAL and Mas 49/56 would suffice. They had to start somewhere, it wasn't let do this and hope it works, something drove that design, because it worked well enough to make them for 20+ years.
We see Romania as the listed "user", but how many Romanian SKSs have "new" stocks after refurb, usually they don't, they are just mismatched around though vs. how many Yugoslavian M59s have nicey new fresh stocks? Now, launching grenades whoops a stock due to the recoil, M1 Carbines suffered this, Garands as well, so why did Yugoslavia replace so many stocks, were they just dirty, ugly, scratched and beat to death, or did launching cause damage that over time required replacement with new stocks. Once the M59/66 was developed the M59 kind of fell to the curb, the M59/66 was an all in one package then, designed to fire grenades, with sights, night sights, a spigot, beefed up stock and a new development, and a gas shut off, just like a lot of other NATO sized launching weapons, you have options, choices, a blank fire grenade or a bullet trap grenade..
Again Romania
......and look who it borders, Serbia, guess that little launcher couldn't grow fairy wings by any chance find it's way across a border now could it and instantly become Romanian..I bet a jelly doughnut if one looks hard enough, in every nook and cranny, their might be one in Bulgaria as well, maybe even scrounge one up in Hungary.
Again, it's a thought.. maybe some are in the right church, just have the wrong pew.. Just another big unsubstantiated "what if"
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