Approximately 20,000 have since entered production leading to limited availability as frontline service rifles go.Īt its core, the RK 95 TP is a basic assault rifle system built from tried-and-true components and quality construction to suit Finnish Army requirements. With the resulting revisions in place and a period of formal evaluations followed before adoption in the Finnish Army as the "RK 95 TP" in 1995. Due to its AK-47 lineage, the M90 was essentially a highly evolved AK-47 by way of the RK 62 series.
The M90 - a clean design with much of the same form and function of the RK 62 before it - introduced a side-folding butt, adjustable sights with standard tritium nightsights and a flash hider (this also being able to fire rifle grenades). It was the SAKO company which once again took on development of a new assault system and this produced the "M90" prototype of 1990. The gas-operated weapon was produced by the concerns of SAKO Ltd and Valmet to which over 350,000 examples were ultimately manufactured. The weapon was chambered for the 7.62x39mm Soviet cartridge unveiled during World War 2 and the selection of this cartridge was not without merit considering the proliferation of the round on the world stage and the Soviet influence in Finland during the Cold War. The RK 62 was a modified form of the original Rk 60 series which itself was a near-direct copy of the famous Soviet Kalashnikov AK-47 system. Development of a new Finnish Army service assault rifle began in 1988 though, prior to this, the Finnish Army relied on the "RK 62" series assault rifle which was adopted in 1962.
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