These lightweight and cheap weapons are effective. It really bugs me that the US spends so much on arms when we're going up against the local dudes armed with the cheapest possible weapons....which happen to be pretty good. Near Vukovar I met an old chetnik who told me the best combat weapon ever was the Thompson sub-machine gun....."If you have the ammo. Otherwise, the best is the Russian-made AK47." These guys are HVO fighters in downtown Gornji Vakuf.