i am a professional. i always am true without firing single rails full automatic. i know the fatigue will fail i take pride in my work but for one thing. no might. not the one who kills that distinction belongs to the nut who pulls my trachea. i am an assault rifle my name is. somewhere a group of elite soldiers from russia's interior ministry or amounts to start an exercise in the morning they line up information according to tradition they pay homage to past comrades who have died in the line of duty. this unit 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. rifle to these men it's known simply as kalash. there yet. these soldiers will enjoy a course of special training lasting almost until dusk gets regular procedure a few modifications to the kalashnikov assault rifle to be tested in such units it will be hard to imagine a tougher testing ground but in your gun. one rifle for every bench is thoroughly scrutinized before being sent to units in a field. if it's more like torture than a scientific trial. the rifles design 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 the 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. sure does 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 the hot and humid conditions often prompted them to improvise with captured kalashnikovs rather than their own. sixteen rifles kalashnikovs were in such a climate. self-taught gunsmith mikhail kalashnikov came up with a prototype of his celebrated rifle at least age of twenty two he says about designing it after he was wounded in action during the second world war 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 more than 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. after the end of the cold war that the a k forty seven was designed as 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 would do is simply the product some twenty variants of the a k have been turned out he has in one thousand nine hundred forty seven people 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 buildings loans women it's told they handle the mechanical

operations requiring constant attention that of them and they know the rifle inside and out even though the weapon is intended primarily and then. 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 the offices concealed the weapons in cases and collected used cartridges when the five point four five millimeter variant appeared in nine hundred seventy four the situation was quite different because brenda gained fame far beyond soviet borders off to the vietnam war. special forces were some of the first to appreciate the benefits of the five point four five millimeter version chaunge tightening had improved it was also much lighter and the world no complaints about harsh operating. missions. that.

even though the kalashnikov rifle is much more reliable than the m sixteen it's designer and 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 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 from 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. it's featured full dress uniform and a kalashnikov. yes i. do hereby swear allegiance to my country after taking the oath cadets to use their weapon to protect russia's interests.

ah la charlie mumble a man's 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 hopes the portuguese colony in spite for. the rebels quickly got a feel for the soviet rifle after their victory it became a national symbol. the sea in the middle of. flag we have yet the star. and the book the who and the of the book signifies indication and the whole petition that agriculture foot and. the collaging quoth the struggle for me but issue of all counts.

and. it is truly. at times to be a shift machine building around the clock in a big old cold internationalism. the employees just because everyone of the flood was like robots if they were ever to find another job at a factory making meat grinder the end product would still be a kalashnikov. that was going to get. closed. in a week they have regular jobs but it weekends these people this stuffy officers battle dress. they want to kalashnikovs but these weapons a loaded with plastic bowls instead of bullets for players is 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 combat weapon to a game of airsoft. this thing is assembled from the same materials the same production lines as regular kalashnikov assault rifles. played by people fed up with the routine of everyday life. but in fact the purpose of each round of airsoft is to achieve real. in the future as 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 a. 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 one thousand dollars. we use this rifle as the main weapon of our struggle because it never misses targets. what. has proven its reputation in combat and demonstrated its steadiness in complex conditions. in the 1980's the

cia supplied the afghan mujahideen with thousands of chinese made kalashnikovs. it was the first time that soviet designed with ns were used against soviet soldiers in the twenty first century though those same firearms have now been turned against the united states many i'll tell you the government by nato forces using the very rifles that the us both for them so long ago. absence of russian military schools are undergoing weapons training on a tank range missile kalashnikov himself began his military service in russia's division before the a k forty seven his first inventions were related to vehicles but they could not be implemented because of the onset of world war two kalashnikov miraculously survived after being wounded when his tank caught fire as a result he couldn't resume active service and so he devoted his efforts to

designing small arms. if. it would be soon which brightened. someone from feinstein pressure. whose phone starts on t.v. dot com. i mean so she can only city in europe on the hosts of the twenty forty which are the pictures. says. thank you. scott. thank you. so a. dog days are. fridays are. so common.

see it's so true. cultures that so much time and which are kind of. a problem i want to decisive victory returning him to the white house for another four years what accounts for this victory was a well run campaign and changing. the

first assault rifle models designed by this. because they are proof and later version was made smaller than the seven point six two millimeter original day of the gun jammed. no formal education in engineering either before or after that time it didn't take him long to resolve the problem that many of his colleagues had been unable to cope with the result was the seventy four variant which used five point four five millimeter culture. just like you. today. claimed but the. professionals know that any changes to make it more fashionable. would inevitably affect its most important feature reliability

yeah yeah. for another exercise that could in the rights to wear the crimson distinguishing them out as soldiers below into an elite squad they like to joke that if it were possible to train men to be as tough as the kalashnikov 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 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 iconic brand even claims that somebody other than designed celebrated assault rifle. he alleges that kalashnikov borrowed at the concept from a designer. actually. designed to be a fairly effective. design

does resemble the german variant. and other german specialists contributed to the development of the new product. together claiming that it was made by some ordinary sergeant. since nine hundred forty nine. before claims that they took advice from. 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 he had no access to it.

to be carried through. ready to face is. being trained to. do the same condition. with. his wife is designed. for the fact that he had many ideas but they had come from his soviet. from hugo. was able to integrate various solutions with. the. much more sturdy than its rivals. whenever a kalashnikov ran out of ammunition it was still very useful and hand to hand

fighting once bullets were available again firing could resume without worrying about cleaning own lubricating the gun in battle. rifle was designed so that any illiterate person in the world operated disassemble it for basic cleaning if any and use them under all conditions they had a documentary once history channel. where they were talking about the afghans using the case in afghanistan and they had no concept of cleaned it why would you do that and so they said they finally taught them to take their shoelaces off time in a knot dip it in motor oil and pull that shoestring through the board said there was cleaners with clean enough. one kalashnikov 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. we could he has a concept formulated by one person is built into all these items their design is based on a single principle the parts thought into changeable the fact that this broad range of weapons has been designed by one person that makes them very convenient i will share. in the early one nine hundred ninety s. mikhail kalashnikov had his first opportunity to attend international small firearms exhibitions. times have changed now civilian weapons for hunting and sporting purposes were being developed based on his rifle kalashnikov personally test of the new models as he had always done for his products.

this is a semi automatic shotguns based on the kalashnikov takes less than 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. for them to have me because the americans have compared to if. i got twelve the design of the show guns based on the kalashnikov assault rifle as it turns out i got twelve is a more attractive weapon his more powerful and capable of more effective rapid fire . i mean the americans had to swallow their pride 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 the. models are assembled in the same shop and goes through the same quality control tests before being shipped to a customer or we're entering the freezer now to pick up the assault rifle. it's

been exposed to temperatures of up to minus fifty degrees celsius for nearly an hour. somewhere but in my experience the kalashnikov has never had any problems working in freezing conditions not once has a jammed this gun is very durable. one of the final test is quite possibly the top of the assault rifle is dropped onto a concrete slab from a height of two and a metre. we're at the same firing range where mr kalashnikov met in may of one nine hundred ninety they were talking about dura bill would he have 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 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. but . yet another key feature of the kalashnikov is that almost anyone can use it allowing it to hold its ground for more than sixty gives. a speed police 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 of the rifle veteran kalashnikov uses such as special forces can modify their weapons of choice depending on the mission. don't know 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 scritch that features a retractable stalk for ease of use i can change the length of the stock to my face to pistol grip onto it to make it more comfortable. is that if the magazine holds sixty cartridges more than the standard. as a special interior ministry squad wraps up its training exercise each fighter must make sure that their weapon is still ready for battle after such extreme conditions .

meanwhile the work machine building is drawing to a close what's left is the final trial of the new. special video camera set up next to this is just. tests. every one of 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. ninety three years old he's outlived most of his friends and rivals. creator of the u.s. army's m sixteen 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

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 were kids about. well 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 from it i will be around for several decades more i'm not easily replaced everything is changing but i'm still as i have always been an assault rifle my name is kalashnikov.

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