Vietnam Unveils STV-410 Assault Rifle

13 Juli 2020

STV-410 7.62mm assault rifle (photo : VietDefense)

The Factory Z111 & the General Department of Defense Industry developed a new rifle that  named STV-410 7.62x39mm assault rifle. It can be considered the Vietnamese version of an AK-15.

STV-410 assault rifle (photo : VietDefense)

Some of the information is still classified and won't be available until later this week. But as the name suggests the barrel length of the weapon is 410mm and it fires the traditional 7.62x39mm round that has been a staple of almost all Vietnamese firearms. The optic placement in this photo isn't realistic and is likely just for show - heck most normal troops will be using the standard rifle sights anyways. It appears the weapon still has a full size stock in comparison to other newer Vietnamese guns with foldable variants.

STV-416 can be considered a cheaper alternative to the STV-410 (photo : VietDefense)

Creating a modern Kalashnikov outside of Russia honestly isn't that difficult and well within the capability of the Vietnamese defense industry. Remember that Z111 gained license production of the Galil ACE line of rifle in 2014 and proceeded to localize the designs with traditional Kalashnikov component....aren't the AK-15 and Galil ACE both just modernizations of the original Kalashnikov done by two different countries?

(VietDefense)