since two units in a field in sharif it's more like torture than a scientific trial. the rifles design a medical 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. 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 fourteen 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 for 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 take 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 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 was designed as met their american m. sixteen counterparts following the gathering mikhail 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 want i want white gloves because we don't want to smear the the signature of. the kalashnikov assault rifles are mainly assembled by hand people working with the machine building plant in the city of never say weapons or a soldier rifle bay with that too is simply a product of some twenty very to be

a case of being turned out he has 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 at the machine building plants the 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 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 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 very interfered

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 chaunge tightening had improved it was also my. no complaints about additions. not that. even the kalashnikov rifle is much more reliable than the m sixteen. and far less from his creation than his american counterpart eugene stone. 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 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. this 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 to 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. to use that weapon to protect russia's interests. ah 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 a kalashnikov in the early one nine hundred sixty s. the soviet union hopes the portuguese colony spiteful and the rebels quickly going to feel for the soviet rifle after their victory it became a national symbol. the sea in the middle of the. flag we have yet to start. and

the book the who and the. book signifies indication and the whole petition that agriculture foot and. the collaging quoth the struggle for liberation of all counts. this really is. at times be a chef machine building the world around the clock in a bid to uphold what was then called internationalism. the employees just because everyone in the plant was like robots if they were ever to find another job at a factory making meet. 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 change this stuffy officers scrub battle dress. to kalashnikovs but these weapons a loaded with plastic bowls instead of bullets flourishes no making a collection of golf 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 soft 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. the iconic. very strong because i am 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. 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. this rifle is the main weapon of all struggle because it never misses targets. what 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 womens were used against soviet soldiers in the twenty first century though those same firearms 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. because it's a russian military schools are undergoing weapons training on a tank range missile kalashnikov himself began his military service in russia as

a division. 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. wealthy british style psychos. market. is going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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the first assault rifle models designed. because they were put in later version was made for cartridges smaller than the seven point six two millimeter original but they. received no formal education in engineering

either before or after that time it didn't take to resolve a problem that many of his colleagues would be unable to cope with the result was the case seventy four. which used five point four five millimeter cartridges just like it. is to. today. but the u.k. is outdated but professionals know that any changes to make it fashionable looking would inevitably affect its most important feature reliability yeah. he. said for another exercise that the rights to wear the crimson distinguishing 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. . yes 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. is a specialist in ballistics. skeptical of the superiority of the iconic brand even claims that somebody other than. he alleges that. the concept from a german designer. designed to be a fairly effective forty four. and it is true that kalashnikov 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 sargent is utterly preposterous. he and his colleagues have heard these accusations before claims that the young

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 schmeiser 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. the work was a carefully guarded secret obviously hero schmeiser had no access to it. after being carried through with these men and ready to face a set of. fighters in this special squad of being trained to handle standard weapons the brand new a k twelve model will be tried exactly the same conditions and then send. police with. kalashnikovs

was asked about his wife is designing he made no secret of the fact that he had indeed borrowed many ideas but they had come from his soviets colleagues from hugo . kalashnikov who was able to integrate various solutions within one designed to best advantage over 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 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. kalashnikov made his weapon in one 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 concept formulated by one person who's built all these theirs on 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. billion weapons for hunting and sporting purposes were being developed based on his rifle. personally tested the new models as he had always done his products. a semiautomatic shotgun 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 their firearm to i got twelve design of the shotguns 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 haley of the sierra plant 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 it's a 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 there was 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 down 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 there we're 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 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 that kind is that almost anyone can use it allowing it to hold its ground for more than sixty years. it's people. 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. when we get a kalashnikov assault rifle from the depo we fitted out with a site. this is a sample chewed up for marksman. features 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. 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 set up next to a kalashnikov that has just gone through a rigorous series of tests. 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 died in 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 want to design a weapon that was going to be used in widescale fratricidal war and they 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 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 i'm not easily replaced. everything is changing but i'm still as i have always been an assault rifle. is kalashnikov. i miss it and. my daddy. does the famous phrase bends and blame is oh my save. my money ransom business.

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