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Each of those two weapons with an empty 30-round magazine weigh about 7.7 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More from Business Insider Defense<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/india-may-get-russia-s-400-missile-defense-system-before-end-of-us-2018-8\">The US made an exception for an ally to buy Russian arms \u2014 and it may get a dangerous new system before the end of the year<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/strong-earthquake-venezuela-rio-caribe-sucre-2018-8\">A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake shook Venezuela\u2019s east coast<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-to-search-for-nuclear-powered-cruise-missile-lost-at-sea-2018-8\">Putin lost his supposedly \u2018invulnerable\u2019 nuclear-powered missile at sea \u2014 now he has to go find it<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AK-308 weighs about 9.5 pounds with an empty 20-round magazine. 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