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if you guys talk to the jokes i will handle the stuff that. true without firing single realms full automatic. fatigue. i take pride in my work but. the one who kills that distinction belongs to the nut who pulls my trachea. i am an assault rifle my name is. a group of elite soldiers from russia's interior ministry amounts to start an exercise in the morning information according to tradition they pay homage to past
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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. it's known simply as. there are. these soldiers with special training lasting almost until. it's regular procedure but modifications to the kalashnikov assault rifle to be tested in such units it would be hard to imagine a tougher testing ground but. one rifle for every batch is thoroughly scrutinized before being sent to units in the field. in a scientific trial. the rifles design a missile. 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.
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testing a new variant. 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 the hot and humid conditions often prompted them to improvise with captured kalashnikovs. sixteen rifles kalashnikovs with such a climate. gunsmith. came up with a prototype for his celebrated rifle at least age of twenty two he says about
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designing it off to he was wounded in action during the second world war recognition of his achievements. later in one nine hundred forty seven when his model came first in a defense ministry firearm design contest the new weapon was designated 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 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
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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. because we don't want to smear the signature of. kalashnikov assault rifles assembled by. people working at the machine building in the city will never say weapons will. do is simply the product. variants of the a k have been 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 is today. the rifle is not only functional but it's
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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 and they know the rifle inside and out even though the weapon is intended primarily and then. i often have to teach mail 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 a nine hundred forty seven was kept secret so much so that offices concealed 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 boy goes off to the. special
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forces with some of the first to appreciate the benefits of the five point four five millimeter version. that improved it was also much lighter no complaints about . it's. not. even a kalashnikov rifle is much more reliable than sixteen. and far less from his creation than his american counterpart eugene stone and. they came from a completely different socio economic and political backgrounds in russia kalashnikov was honored as a national hero a regional icon that received 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 and russia and many people know him but he didn't become wealthy for. different approaches different
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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. 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. yet i. do hereby swear allegiance to my country after taking the oath.
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to use that weapon to protect russia's interests. ah. ah la charlie mumble 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 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 our. flag we have yet the star. and the book the who and. the book signifies indication and the whole petition that agriculture
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for. the struggle for me but issue of all counts. that is for all these. times to be a shift machine building. in a big. cold international. employees just because everyone of the flood works like robots if they were ever to find another job at a factory making. 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 this stuffy officers scrub battle dress that jumps to kalashnikovs but these weapons
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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 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
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women alike are only just beginning to get. the iconic. very strong because i am a young woman. again doing at 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. as one war comes to an end. profits by buying up used kalashnikovs and selling them in. 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. used this rifle is the main weapon of our struggle because it never misses targets
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. has proven its reputation 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 whippings 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 gunman fight nato forces using the very one close that the u.s. both call them so long ago. russian military schools are undergoing weapons training on a tank range missile kalashnikov himself began his military service in russia as a division. forty seven his first inventions were related to vehicles but they could not be implemented because of the onset of world war two. miraculously
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survived after being wounded when his tank called fire as a result he couldn't resume active service and so he devoted his efforts to designing small arms. that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across we've been hijacked why a handful of transnational corporations will profit by destroying what our founding fathers. and on this show we revealed. picture of what's actually going on
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popularity because they will waterproof and later version was made for cartridges smaller than the seven point six two millimeter original but they often go gems. to no formal education in engineering either before or after that time it didn't take him long to resolve a problem that many of his colleagues would be unable to cope with the result was the case seventy four variant which used five point four five millimeter coverage is just like you. is to prove. today critics often claim to be a k. is outdated but professionals know that any changes to make it more fashionable modem looking would inevitably affect its most important feature reliability yeah yeah. you know what you. need these soldiers are all set for another axis. distinguishing.
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that if. 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.
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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. especially. skeptical of the superiority of the. even. fairly effective. and other german specialists contributed to the development of the new. inventor.
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together claiming that it was made by some ordinary sergeant. since nine hundred forty nine. 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 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 . the work was a carefully guarded secret obviously he had no access to it. carried through. these men are ready to face the. special being
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trained to. exactly the same conditions. about his wife his design. of the fact that he had many ideas but they had come from his soviet colleagues from hugo. kalashnikov who was able to integrate various solutions with designs of. the new assault rifle it was much more sturdy than its rivals. whenever a kalashnikov run out of ammunition it was still very useful in fighting. fire and could resume. cleaning.
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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 using the qasim 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 knot dip it in motor oil and pull that shoestring through the board said there was clean as 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. he has a concept formulated by one person is built into all these items there's zero and
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is based on a single principle the pulse thought into changeable 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 had changed nelson billy and 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 kalashnikov takes less than a couple of seconds to be ready to fire the united states up attentional and bursaries has been one of the most active customers for the russian made. they're
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going to have media because they're americans of compared to if. i got twelve design of this show guns based only kolesnik over assault rifle as it turns out so 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 and 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 the. models are assembled in the same shell and goes through the same quality control tests before being shipped to a customer. 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 nearly an hour. for. most people in my experience the kalashnikov has never had any problems
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working in freezing conditions. this gun is very durable. one of the final tests is quite possibly the toughest the assault rifle is drawn from a concrete slab from a height of two and a metre. where 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 if 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 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 a weapon doesn't function. feature
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when we get a kalashnikov assault rifle from the. site. this is a. retractable stalk for us i can change the. pistol grip on to it to make it more comfortable. magazine hold sixty cartridges more than the standard. as a special. training exercise. make sure that that weapon is still ready for battle after such extreme conditions. especially. tests.
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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 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 on a very year. i only wanted to help protect my country's borders three you are
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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. one hundred million like me in the world they say i have yet to outlive my usefulness. will be around for decades more. easily were placed. everything is changing but i'm still as i have always been an assault rifle. is kalashnikov. the problem is terrible they come up very hard to make other
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