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Soviet/Armenian VAHAN prototype assault rifle
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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2024
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Is it just visual, or does this have some Sterling DNA in its design? I looked it up and it said the VAHAN is a lever delayed blowback action and I know there was a 7.62x51mm Sterling prototype that used Bren mags and was lever delayed blowback action firing from an open bolt
I don't think it's necessarily related to the Sterling, but rather they both (and many other submachine guns, like the Sten, M3, Beretta M12, etc.) get their "shape" from a common source - the manufacturing simplicity of tubular receivers. Making a receiver like that work with a gas-operated gun is a bit trickier, since there needs to be some space for the piston to go, but with delayed blowback you can just have the bolt in a relatively cylindrically-shaped bolt carrier that fits snugly into a tube.
Here's an StG-45, which doesn't actually quite have a tubular receiver (since there's a rectangular portion at the bottom, it's overall more like a "keyhole" shape I guess), but it's just to demonstrate how the internals of a delayed blowback gun can look