AK lovers can now add this to their collection and it's made by King Arms. This is available at RedWolf Airsoft for reasonable price of US$225.00... "Full metal AK-47 with modern style tactical polymer furniture. Aluminium receiver and outer barrel, steel top plate, rails, trigger guard, magazine catch, rear sling loop and frame stock. The front furniture features short accessory rails on the sides and bottom; a handy setup for adding rail attach accessories like lasers, flashlights, bipods and grips.

The front furniture has a beveled hand-following curve shape whilst the pistol grip is polymer and features plin styling with just enough texture for grippage yet shallow enough to minimize snagging against gloves, vests or even the environment.

Full length AKs like these have inner barrels over 40cm / 16 inches long, a receiver that tidily takes an internally stored 9.6v stick battery (not included), an AK type motor winding though a version 3 gearbox pushing out 330 fps feeding from the included 600 round high capacity magazine. AKs like these are not just good AEGs, they make for natural machine guns; many experienced users know that by slapping on the right sort of magazine, scope and accessories you can make this a pretty effective squad support weapon whilst still maintaining a rifle weight advantage over proper machine guns.

Take it one step further, the King Arms AK takes King Arms AK magazines as well as Tokyo Marui and G&P variations. Baring this in mind, AKs have one of the most significant cross-model-compatibility of AEG magazines meaning that if you find an Airsoft AEG AK magazine, chances are it will work inside this thing. The version 3 gearbox and slide-tab hop-up and tried and tested standard designs which are not only bench mark performers but cross compatible with a plethora if aftermarket modifications should you which to drop in a higher power spring, a faster or stronger motor or a reinforced piston. It also makes long term maintenance as simple as finding a store that stocks the most common AEG parts. If M4s are the most common and prolific series in Airsoft, AKs are a very close second.

At a full size 94cm / 37 inches the AK-47 is an imposing rifle but certainly not small but folding down the polymer (right) side folding frame stock on this model reduced it to a far more reasonable 71cm / 28 inches when you need to operate is smaller spaces. Classic issues found on older AK types are not found on these newer ones; the top plate is wobble free and while the stock has a little give in the hinge rotation the hinge lock is damned solid with an effective balance of rigid form yet smooth movement when needed.

If you are looking for a market dominatingly compatible AEG rifle series that can be modded up down and sideways in circles around other models which performs up there with the best of them but not only want to avoid the M4 but western weapons in general then the AK must just be the rifle you are looking for.

If you want a team standard rifle that go be found in various forms and formats to do a whole team range of jobs but what to show some kind of stand-off styling against the ARs in the enemy team, this might just be the rifle you are looking for."