i am a professional. true without firing single realms full automatic. fatigue no failure i take pride in my work but. the one who kills that distinction belongs to the man who pulls my trachea. i am an assault rifle my name is. a group of elite soldiers from russia's interior ministry to start an exercise in the morning information according to tradition they pay homage to past comrades who have died in the line of duty. that 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

kalashnikov assault rifle. it's known simply as. there are yet. these soldiers with special training lasting almost until. its regular procedure a modification to the kalashnikov assault rifle to be tested in such units it would be hard to imagine a tougher testing ground in your gun. one rifle for every batch is thoroughly scrutinized before being sent to units in a field. in a scientific trial. the rifles designed. one 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. sure it 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 a captured kalashnikov. sixteen rifle kalashnikovs was in such a climate. self-taught gunsmith mikhail kalashnikov came up with a prototype for his celebrated rifle at least age of twenty two he said 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 and you bet 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 us state of virginia it was here in the 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 were the two it simply was a product some twenty very to be a case of being turned out to be as in one thousand nine hundred forty seven people across the board instantly recognized the kalashnikov that 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 with the machine building blonde women it's still 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 on 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 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 choice tightening had improved it was also my. complaints about

additions. that. even the kalashnikov rifle is much more reliable than the m. sixteen. s from his creation and 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 then within

the same time limit the gun must be reassembled and ready to fire and. 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. 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. yes i. do hereby swear allegiance to my country after taking the oath. to use that 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 kolesnikov in the early one nine hundred sixty s. the soviet union hopes the portuguese colony in spite of. the rebels quickly got a feel for the soviet rifle after their victory it became a national symbol. the sea in the middle of the. flag we have you know the star and the book the who and the. book signifies advocation and the whole petition that agriculture foot and. the collection quoth the struggle for me but issue 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 internationalism. the employee's job because everyone of the flood was like robots if they were ever to find another job at a factory making meat grinders the product would still be a kalashnikov. that was going to get. closed. in a week they have regular jobs but it weekends these people change this stuff the 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 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. 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 airsoft is to achieve real cool goals. 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. 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. 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. complex condition.

of chinese made kalashnikov. it was the first. used. in the twenty first century those. states. by. using the very rifles that the. russian. weapons training. began his military service in russia a division. his first inventions were related to vehicles. because. as a result. of his efforts to designing small. thank

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first assault rifle models designed. because they. was made for cartridges smaller than the seven point six two millimeter original. received no formal education in engineering either before or after that time it didn't take him 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 coverage is just like it. was. today critics often claim but the. professionals know that any changes to make it

fashionable looking would inevitably affect its most important feature reliability yeah. for another exercise that the rights to wear the crimson distinguishing sign that marks them out as soldiers below into and in the 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 c. . a lightweight semi automatic rifle. and then. the impact we were shooting at twenty five yards the bullet is not fast but it's heavy pounding bullet very effective. especially. the skeptical of the superiority of the. even claim. he alleges that. the concept from a german design. designed to be

a fairly effective. design does resemble the german variant. and other german specialists 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 the. many times they think the debate is pointless. this place is awash with rumors it's no secret that the german designers are so 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. still with the being carried through with these men are ready to face the. fighters in this special squad of being trained to handle standard weapons the brand new a k twelve model will be tried out in exactly the same conditions and then sent home to russia's own me and police with. kalashnikovs was asked about his wife is designed 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 schweizer. kalashnikov who was able to integrate various solutions within one designed to best advantage moreover the new assault rifle was much more studied 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 lubricating the gun in battle. rifle was designed so that any illiterate person in the world operated disassemble it for basically if any and use them under all conditions they had a documentary once history channel. where they were talking about the afghans years in the case and 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 that was clean as 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. he has a cold. formulated by one person who's 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 kalashnikov 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 adverse or it has been one of the most active customers for the russian made. thanks to me because the americans have compared their firearm so i got twelve design of the shotguns based on the kalashnikov assault rifle as it turns out i got twelve is a more attractive weapon is more powerful and capable of more effective rapid fire . i mean the americans had to swallow their pride earlier this year our plant signed contracts with the americans for thousands of so i got twelve units to be supplied to the police force. but. models are assembled in the same shop and goes through the same quality control tests before being shipped to

a customer. 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 in my experience the kalashnikov has never had any problems working in freezing conditions there has 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 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 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 print function properly they take the designer and they drop him from eleven feet onto a concrete floor. but. yet another key feature that can actually go is that almost anyone can use it allowing it to hold its ground for more than sixty euros. it's equally suited both

to novices who have only just laid hands on it and professionals dealing with specific tasks. that begin and needs only a short time to acquaintance up to the wife of a veteran kalashnikov users such as special for. 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. is a retractable stock for ease of use i can change the length of the stock to fix the pistol grip onto it to make it more comfortable. in hold sixty cartridges more than the standard for. 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 is drawing to a close what's left is the final trial for the new. special video camera is set up next but has just gone through a rigorous series of tests it records in slow motion everyone 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 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 is a very year. i only wanted to help protect my country's borders three you are 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. 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 with placed. everything is changing but i'm still as i have always been an assault rifle.

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