In this real world setup, Blue Jean Operator shows his AK setup that gives him the maximum suppressive fire capability instead of going for support weapons such as the RPK and PKM... "Today I'll be going over my AK setup/loadout for maximum suppressive fire capability, pushing a regular 7.62x39 AK into the role typically filled by a RPK.

For a while now I've been noticing various Russian and Ukrainian special operations units ditching the traditional RPK, and instead just throwing drums or RPK mags into their regular AKs.

This is not because a regular AK is as good at being an automatic rifle as an RPK, but rather they are choosing to instead run more PKMs, and increasing the capacity of some of their rifleman to still give them some suppressive fire capabilities."