nice article by Vladimir Onokoy,
he posted hell of fresh pics of INSAS prototype from that St. Petersburg museum...but apparently in good ol' D F I it was me who worked my arse off to track that particular INSAS down and providing some info about it in end of 2022, can't help but gloat about it as it's one of my proudest firearms related post so far - and since then seems even these westerners have taken a note of its presence in that museum and that particular cabinet
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since good ol' D F I is no more, i only have this to show as proof, the timestamps for images i uploaded there with that post
though i must say, some lesser known russian bloggers did mention about INSAS Prototype's presence in that St. Petersburg museum and that's where i got the exact location of it, and fortunately google maps helped with its 3-d tour thing (using that visual tour, i literally went from one corner to other from very entry point thorough whole museum to finally find it on second or third floor, at some small arms room, near a window nearby corner of the room) - but even then, these same people never bothered much to provide fresh, high res pics of it and everyone just totally forgot about it all over insignificance, but with that post of mine on D F I, and all upgrades being done to INSAS by FAB-style kits they suddenly got interest in it, hhmm?
en.wikipedia.org
Park Aleksandrovskiy, 7, St Petersburg, Russia, 197101
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