Mlok use needs to pay a symbolic licensing fees, fees can be permanent after use, but the people's liberation army are not allowed to do so on firearms
QBZ-191 service rifle family
- Thread starter Blitzo
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What's the likelihood that they just used MLOK without paying the licensing fee?
It would hardly be unprecedented for that to happen...
I think that was another thing called KeyMod, that one was open source. I honestly thought it was better, at least in terms of ideology behind the design.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Keymod though was found wanting in terms of stress and locking.
Mlok is free license, Keymod is open source. Mlok was put as a Free license so as to ensure that makers are building up to specifications allowing universal commonality. Keymod is open source which makes it fair game.
I can't confirm this myself but I've been hearing keymod is gaining unusual high popularity in the last 3 years. Heard some gun reviewer say the keymod turned out to be better but then you got people on the other side like TerraN saying his points.
According to posts I have seen online and this video by Brownells:
MLOK is sturdier than Keymod in regards to holding in place the attachment although both can do the job well. Plus MLOK is SOCOM’s go to rail system at this point.
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
My point is based off a by the Naval Station Weapons center Crane for US SOCOM.
Yeah, it was quite widely known for a few years now that MLOK won over Key mod from the US military assessments.
There's a reason why things like M110A1 and URGI use MLOK as the negative space mounting option on their handguards rather than Keymod.
Most other military forces that are adopting a negative space mounting option for recent rifles or upgrade kits seem to be going for MLOK too.
Does anyone know if the optic in this photo is a real holographic sight or a holographic-like red dot sight?