It fires rifle round so it shouldn’t be classified as an Assault Rifle. It fits the SF category much more.
More over, it has 25 rounds in the magazine so despite dealing less damage it could be a good sidegrade to AVS and AVT. Similarly to how FG42 vs AVT/S work, one has more ammo but the other deals more damage.
Of course with this change, it’s stats should be changed accordingly: recoil, spare ammo, upgrades etc. to be more in line with other SF rifles
The Fedorov in its current form is very similar to the Japanese Type Hei automatic rifle. It looked like it before the upgrade. So basically you want the USSR to use the Fedorov with a 3*9 rifleman 3 meta?
Less recoil and I think more damage (they increased Fedorov’s damage, but I’m not sure how much).
The only advantage Fedorov has is 5 more bullets.
I also think the ROF of the FG42II rifle is higher, but unfortunately I don’t have access to the game right now (I’m downloading the update with 1MBps😂).