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bridge stream quality and enjoy your favorites. any time. true without firing single realms full automatic. fatigue. i take pride in my work but. the one who kills that distinction belongs to the man who calls my tree. i am an assault rifle my name is. a group of elite soldiers from russia's interior ministry of.
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information according to tradition they pay homage to post comrades who have died in the line of duty. has taken part in many counterterrorist operations across russia. they have a variety of firearms at their disposal but their weapon of choice is still the. police it's known simply as. there are. these soldiers with special training. it's regular procedure but modifications to the kalashnikov assault rifle to be tested in such units it will be hard to imagine or tough a testing ground but. one rifle for every bench is thoroughly scrutinized before two units in a field. more like torture than a scientific trial. the rifles design
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a missile kalashnikov once recalled that when he realized his first model was to be subjected to a severe test he looked away he couldn't bear to see it with his own eyes. testing a new variant of a kalashnikov goes through seven stages first the gun is placed into what's known as the dust chamber where the room is filled with sand. and dust chambers filled with fine particles of silica sand the next stage will lead us to the sprinkler room it imitates a subtropical climate when u.s. commandos fought in vietnam the hot and humid conditions often prompted them to improvise with captured kalashnikovs rather than their own army issued in sixteen rifles kalashnikovs were far more durable in such
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a climate. self-taught gunsmith mikhail kalashnikov came up with a prototype of his celebrated rifle at least age of twenty two he set about designing it after he was wounded in action during the second world war the recognition of his achievement came five and a half years later in one nine hundred forty seven when his model came first in a defense ministry firearm design contest the new weapon was designated bake a forty seven. i took care to think over every single part to make them more technologically suitable for mass production. at the same time i needed to make sure that the gun was as reliable and durable as its design dictates that was not an easy task but in general any designer must be very careful with regard to every detail of the design the. vietnam war veterans frequent to this firing range in the u.s. state of virginia it was here in the one nine hundred ninety s.
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after the end of the cold war that the a k forty seven s designers met their american m sixteen counterparts following the gathering. put his signature on one of the rifles belonging to the club and this is russian ammunition. so it i'm sure it'll work well. general kalashnikov autographed this piece so this is quite a rare piece and when we shoot it i'm going to everybody want i want white gloves because we don't want to smear the signature of. a kalashnikov assault rifles are mainly assembled by hand people working at the machine building plant in the city of never say weapons or a soldier rifle they were the two is simply the product of some twenty very to be a case of being turned out is in one thousand nine hundred forty seven people
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across the board instantly recognize the kalashnikov it is the most widespread firearm in the world today. the rifle is not only functional but it's also a handsome model. likes to say that it cries out to be touched most of the workers at the machine building blonde women it's told they handle a mechanical operations requiring constant attention that of the men they know the rifle inside and out even though the weapon is intended primarily from them so i often have to teach male workers not only the newcomers but also those who already know their job well when i watch films on t.v. i instantly recognize something made in our shop gives me great joy to see our products on screen. the first batch of kalashnikovs made in nine hundred forty seven was kept secret so much so that offices concealed the weapons in cases and collected used cartridges when the five point four five millimeter variant appeared
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in nine hundred seventy four the situation was quite different because brenda gained fame far beyond soviet borders after the vietnam war. special forces were some of the first to appreciate the benefits of the five point four five millimeter version shortcoming had improved it was also much lighter and the world no complaints about hockey operations. missions. that. even though the kalashnikov rifle is much more reliable than the m sixteen it's design a far less from his creation than his american counterpart eugene stone. they came from completely different socio economic and political backgrounds in russia kalashnikov was honored as a national hero a regional icon but received no compensation stoner received a dollar a rifle for a royalty course they sold millions of them and so in the united states few people
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know who stoner is although he became wealthy from the us in russia many people know him but he didn't become wealthy for different approaches different societies different values. new recruits of russian military schools are required to learn how to strip down the kalashnikov in fifteen seconds and then within the same time limit the gun must be reassembled and ready to fire and. miss is a reliable weapon and it's a personal weapon that all students must have a good knowledge of down to the smallest part. sometimes they even have to take it apart and reassemble it and clean it while they're blindfolded. and then to have successfully passed initial tests take an oath of allegiance and the ritual goes back to the mid seventeenth century and since the one nine hundred fifty s.
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it's featured full dress uniform and. yes i. do hereby swear allegiance to my country after taking the oath. to use their weapon to protect russia's interests. ah la charlie mumbled means thank you in mozambique the words of the song sung by these freedom fighters could just as easily be addressed to mr kalashnikov in the early one nine hundred sixty s. the soviet union looks the portuguese colored sponge for. the rebels quickly got a feel for the soviet rifle after their victory it became a national symbol. the city in the middle of. flag we have you know the star. and the book the who and the.
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book signifies education and the whole petition that agriculture. foot and the. the struggle for me but issue of all counts. this will these. be the times to be a shift machine building worked around the clock in a bid to uphold what was then called internationalism. the employee's job because everyone in the plant was like robots if they were ever to find another job even at a factory making meat grinders the end product would still be a kalashnikov. that was going to get. a year. closed. in a week they have regular jobs but it weekends these people change this stuffy
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office suit scrub battle dress. to kalashnikovs but these weapons a loaded with plastic bowls instead of bullets flourishes no making a kalashnikov with a difference some call them fake because they kill everything else about these non-lethal rifles remains true to the original. design and appearance. everyone can feel like a real soldier. it's not a fake but rather a genuine kalashnikov basically this is the first attempt to use an electric mechanism to adapt the combat weapon to a game of airsoft. this thing is assembled from the same materials the same production lines as regular kalashnikov assault rifles. this game played by people fed up with the routine of everyday life. but in fact the purpose of each round of solved is to achieve real cool goals. in the future as
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a cost effective method of tactical training. for the. men and women alike are only just beginning to get that. of the iconic. i'm not very strong because i am a young woman again doing it my hands. but now i feel they have been getting stronger with training exercise i find that. right. there is another side to the popularity of the kalashnikov as one war comes to an end. profits by buying up used kalashnikovs and selling them in. for example after the soviet union pulled its troops out of. a single rifle cost a mere fifteen dollars a day the price for a functional kalashnikov in the middle east is around thousands of dollars.
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used this rifle is the main weapon of all struggle because it never misses targets . has proven its reputation in. complex condition. of chinese made kalashnikov. it was the first. used. in the twenty first century. of. the united states. by. using the very rifles that the us both. russian. weapons training on a tank range. began his military service in russia's division.
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forty seven his first inventions were related to vehicles but they could not be implemented because. when his tank. as a result he couldn't. he devoted his efforts to designing small. science technology. from russia. the mission of free accreditation free in-store chargers free arrangements free. free studios free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media. tom.
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the first assault rifle models designed. because they. was made for. the seven point six two millimeter original but the. education and engineering either before or after that time it didn't take to resolve a problem that many of his colleagues had been unable to cope with the result was the case seventy four. which used five point four five millimeter culture does just like it. was. today critics often claim but the. professionals know that any changes to make it fashionable. would inevitably affect its most important feature reliability
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yeah. what's. good. for another exercise that the rights to wear the crimson the distinguishing. squad they like to joke that if it were possible to train men to be as tough as the . they would be the world's best special forces units. after the decision was made to select this weapon as the new soviet assault rifle the russians immediately began improvements on it even before it was issued. and they kept improving it working on every feature of the rifle to optimize performance. the difference in that story is when the united states selected the m. sixteen rifle from colt they forced. the rifle to be issued for combat use before adequate testing the united states government literally did nothing for
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fifteen to twenty years after world war two to get. serious about a lightweight semi automatic rifle. and then put the safety back on the impact we were shooting at twenty five yards the bullet is not fast but it's a heavy pounding bullet very effective. as a specialist in ballistics. he is skeptical of the superiority of the. even claims that somebody other than. he alleges that. the concept from a german designer. was the end of the design to be a fairly effective forty four. and it is true that kalashnikov design does resemble the german variant. and other german specialists
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contributed to the development of the new product. inventors worked on it together claiming that it was made by some ordinary sergeant is utterly preposterous. since nine hundred forty nine. claims that they took advice from. so many times they think the debate is pointless. this place is awash with rumors it's no secret that the german designers worked in this building after the war i've seen an article on the internet claiming that he gave casual advice to the young mikhail kalashnikov just in passing it sounds ludicrous . work was a carefully guarded secret obviously hero schmeiser had no access to it.
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to being carried through these men are ready to face is. this special being trained to handle standard weapons. a k twelve model will be tried exactly the same conditions and then send. police with. kalashnikovs was asked about his wife is design he made no secret of the fact that he had indeed borrowed many ideas but they had come from his soviet colleagues not from hugo smiles a. kalashnikov who was able to integrate various solutions within one designed to best advantage. the new assault rifle was much more studied than its rivals. whenever a kalashnikov ran out of ammunition it was still very useful in fighting. a
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fire and could resume without worrying about cleaning lubricating the gun in battle . rifle was designed so that any person in the world operated disassemble it for basic cleaning if any and use them under all conditions they have a documentary once history channel. where they were talking about the afghans years in the afghanistan and they had no concept of clean it why would you do that. and so they said they finally taught them to take their shoelaces off time in a not dip it in motor oil and pull that shoestring through the board said there was cleaners with clean enough. made his weapon in nine hundred forty seven the soviet army desperately needed a modern assault rifle. was a timely solution over time kalashnikov created a wide variety of rifles and machine guns.
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formulated by one person is built all these items their design is based on a single principle the parts are interchangeable the fact that this broad range of weapons has been designed by one person that makes them very convenient. in the early one nine hundred ninety s. mikhail kalashnikov had his first opportunity to attend international small firearms exhibitions. times and changed nelson billion weapons for hunting and sporting purposes were being developed based on his rifle. personally test of the new models as he had always done his products. a semiautomatic shotgun based on the gulf takes less than
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a couple of seconds to be ready to fight the united states potential adverse or it has been one of the most active customers for the russian made. of compared before. i got twelve design of the guns based on the kalashnikov assault rifle as it turns out twelve is a more attractive weapon is more powerful and capable of more effective rapid fire . and. swallow their. croyde i live this year up plan signed contracts with the americans for thousands of so i got twelve units to be supplied to the police force . but. all kalashnikov's models are assembled in the same shop and goes through the same quality control tests before being shipped to a customer towards the shop where entering the freezer now to pick up the assault rifle. it's been exposed to temperatures of up to minus fifty degrees celsius for
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nearly an hour. my mother but in my experience the kalashnikov has never had any problems working in freezing conditions there was not once has a jammed this gun is very general. one of the final tests is quite possibly the toughest the assault rifle is dropped on to a concrete slab from a height of two in the hole for me to. wear at the same firing range where mr kalashnikov and stoner met in may of one nine hundred ninety they were talking about dura billet e of the weapons and what kind of tests they had to go through to make sure they were durable enough to withstand battlefield conditions and one of the things that stoner said was that he was required to drop this weapon from eleven feet and drop on concrete and be able to pick up the weapon and firing and at that point
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kalashnikov started laughing and they asked him what he was laughing about and he said well the way we do it in russia is if the weapon doesn't prove function properly they take the designer and they drop him from eleven feet onto a concrete floor. yes another key feature of the kalashnikov is that almost anyone can use it allowing it to hold its ground for more than sixty years. it's equally suited both to novices who have only just laid hands on it and professionals dealing with specific tasks. that begin their needs only a short time to acquaintance up with
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a rifle veteran kalashnikov uses such as special forces can modify their weapons of choice depending on the mission. when we get a kalashnikov assault rifle from the depo we fitted out with a site. this is a sample chewed up for a marksman that features a retractable stalk for ease of use i can change the length of the stock to fixed a pistol grip on to it to make it more comfortable. the magazine holds sixty cartridges more than the standard. as a special interior ministry squad training exercise each fighter must make sure that their weapon is still ready for battle after such extreme conditions. meanwhile the work machine building plant is drawing to
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a close what's left is the final trial for the new rifle. for special video cameras set up next to a kalashnikov that has just gone through a rigorous series of tests it records in slow motion everyone that the kalashnikovs moving. the gun saves the lives of soldiers on assignment. that's what it's supposed to do and it always functions to the best of its abilities whether covered in mud or frost. is now ninety three years old he's outlived most of his friends and rivals. creator of the u.s. army's m sixteen thousand nine hundred ninety seven. in recent years kalashnikov has become increasingly unhappy about his rifles reputation each year an average of a quarter of a million people were killed by bullets fired from one of his weapons. i didn't
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want to design a weapon that was going to be used in wide scale fratricidal war in a very year. i only wanted to help protect my country's borders three you are teaches about well and that's what i would wish for everybody as well as myself. i have gone through every try the tribulation and i'm ready to go on working there are some one hundred million like me in the world they say i have yet to outlive my usefulness. will be around for decades more i'm not easily replaced. everything is changing but i'm still as i have always been an assault rifle. is kalashnikov.
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