Talk:APS-95

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I admit I'm not familiar with this gun. But, it's probably not appropriate to call it an assault rifle if it's chambered in 9mm. Umm, a quick internet search comes up with this gun being in 5.56 Nato. Where did the information in this article come from, a video game?? Friday 7 July 2005 05:36 (UTC)

It is chambered in 5.56X45mm-rounds. I wouldn't call it an assault rifle either. It was developed in Croatia, but the word is the gun is mostly being used by North Persian forces. Thursday 14 July 2005 15:39 (UTC)

APS-95 was only a prototype rifle. It was made only in couple of specimens by company Koncar-Arma. It was never used in Croatian army, and was never adopted or sold to any army in the world simply because it never made to serial production. It was not a licenced copy, but it was based on Galil rifle. Guns of similar apperance used by Army of Serbia and Montenegro is South-African copy of Galil rifle called R-4. Around 20.000 of those R-4 rifles were siezed by Yugoslav national army in Zagreb Pleso Airport, when Croatian businessman Antun Kikaš tried to smuggle then to Croatian police in 1991!

I have to contradict you. According to several sources, including JANE'S, the APS-95 was indeed adopted officially by the Croatian Army but its procurement was stopped after a very limited number was acquired due to lack of fundings, which prompted Croatia to stick with the guns already available (AK-style rifles of Yugoslavian manufacture and a hodgepodge of guns acquired during the War of Independence, including FN FALs, M-16 derivatives, and even Singaporean SAR-80s), until now: they are experimenting a bull-pup locally made cross-over between the FA-MAS and the Israeli TAR-21, called the "VHS", manufactured by HS-PRODUKT, the same makers of the HS-2000 pistol (a.k.a. the Springfield XD). Koncar-Arma, the company that manufactured the APS-95 along with other military equipments (the ERO, an outright copy of the Israeli UZI; the Mini-ERO, a locally rearranged Micro-UZI with MAC-10 collapsing stock; and a 120mm self-propelled howitzer) pushed it commercially for a while showing it in several defence expo including the MILIPOL and the IDEX all along the 1990s and the 2000s, but since 2007 year their website (www.brothers-in-arms.net) suddenly disappeared from the web. I have clues to think that Koncar-Arma is still in business, so the APS-95 could be still available upon request. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TheTranc (talk • contribs) 19:06, 23 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

as seen by this photo, at least one was exported to Libya! http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/24/fighting-tripoli-gaddafi-libya

Benvenuto (talk) 04:43, 25 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

188.129.107.247 (talk) 21:26, 14 March 2012 (UTC) Reply to Benvenuto on Libya case ; If this is the photo and article you are talking about (since on the link you provided there is no photos!) ; http://www.thexpression.net/?p=2042 it is clearly a misunderstanding since the depicted rifle is certainly not cro. APS-95, rather it is german G36, but I understand the confusion seeing the upper handle/sight, magazine and folding stock looking very similar. So this should be fixed and removed from the wiki article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.129.127.136 (talk) 01:02, 14 March 2012 (UTC)Reply