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 in general any designer must be very careful with regard to every detail of the design the. vietnam war veterans frequents 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 s designers met their american am sixteen counterparts following the gathering kalashnikov 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 what 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 with the machine building plant in the city will never say weapons or a soldier rifle they would do it simply as the product some twenty variants of the a k have been turned out is 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 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 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 it 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 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 sean tightening had improved it was also my. no complaints about additions. not that. even the kalashnikov rifle is much more reliable than sixteen. and far less from his creation than his american counterpart eugene stoner.

they came from a 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 collection of golf in fifteen seconds then within the same time limit the gun must be reassembled and ready to fire. this 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 post 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. yes i. do hereby swear allegiance to my country after taking the oath. to use their weapon to protect russia's interests. ah la la county mumble means thank you in mozambique the words of the song sung by these freedom fighters could just as easily be addressed to mr kolesnikov in the early one nine hundred sixty s.

the soviet union hopes the portuguese colony spied through and that's the rebels quickly got a feel for the soviet rifle after their victory it became a national symbol. the see in the middle of the. flag we have yet the star. and the book the who and. the book signifies indication and the whole petition that agriculture foot and the collaging quoth the struggle for the british of of all counts. this really is. at times to be a shift machine building around the clock in a bid to uphold what was then called international to. be employees just because

everyone of the flood was like robots if they were ever to find another job even at a factory making meet. the end product would still be a kalashnikov. was going to get. closed. in the week they have regular jobs but it weekends these people change this stuffy officers 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 can't kill but 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 may look pointless but in fact the purpose of each round of as soft is to achieve real tactical goals. to use as often the future as a cost effective method of tactical training close quarters combat. for the time being the men and women alike are only just beginning to get that. lethal version of the iconic. do. i'm not very strong because i'm a young woman when i first began doing it my hands. but now i feel they have been getting stronger with training exercise i find that thing is less of a problem now. right. there is another side to the popularity of the.

as one war comes to an end as raking in huge profits by buying up used kalashnikovs and selling them in other hot spots for example after the soviet union pulled its troops out of afghanistan 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. well dedicated. 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 but 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. gets a russian military schools are undergoing weapons training on a tank range missile kalashnikov himself began his military service in russia is a division full of 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.

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of the world's best special for. 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 and we were shooting it twenty five

yards the bullet is not fast but it's a heavy pounding bullet very effective. is a specialist in ballistics. he is skeptical of the superiority of the iconic brand even claims that somebody other than kalashnikov. rifle. he alleges that kalashnikov borrowed at the concept from a german design. as the end of the design to be a fairly effective t.g. forty four assault rifle and it is true that kalashnikov design does resemble the german variant. and other german specialists contributed to the development of the new product the germans and some soviet inventors worked on it together claiming that it was made by some ordinary sergeant.

to the shift since nine hundred forty nine he and his colleagues have heard these accusations before. claims that the young took advice from being denied so many times they think the debate is pointless. this place is awash with rumors it's no secret that the german designer 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. after being carried through these men are ready to face the. special being trained to handle standard weapons. will be tried exactly the same

condition. police with. his wife is designed he made no secret of the fact that he had many ideas but they had come from his soviets colleagues from hugo. was able to integrate various solutions with one designed to best advantage. the new assault rifle it was much more studied than its rivals. whenever a kalashnikov ran out of ammunition it was still very useful in fighting. fire and could resume about cleaning. battle. basically. and. they had

a documentary once history channel. and they had no concept of cleaned it why would you do that. and so they said they finally taught him 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. 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. changed. villian 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. as semi automatic shotguns based on the kalashnikov takes less than a couple of seconds to be ready to fight. the united states potential of bursaries has been one of the most active customers for the russian made. because the americans have compared before. i got twelve the 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 . croyde earlier this year a plant signed contracts with the americans for thousands of so i got twelve units to be supplied to the police force. but there's the. whole collection of models are assembled in the same shop and goes through the same quality control tests before being shipped to a customer towards the show 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. my mother 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 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 one nine hundred ninety there we're talking about dura bill of the 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 fire it and at that point 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 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 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 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 stock for ease of use i can change the length of the stock to fixed a pistol grip onto 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 a close what's left is the final trial for the new. special video camera is set up next to a collection that has just gone through a rigorous series of tests it records in slow motion every one 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 eugene stoner 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 are 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 and they very year . i only wanted to help protect my country's borders three uart 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 several decades more. easily replaced everything is changing but i'm still as i have always been an assault rifle. is kalashnikov. sigrid lumber tour. was able to build a most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't sound anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care

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