every. 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 the k.k.k. forty seven's designers met their american and sixteen counterparts following the gathering. put his signature on one of the rifles belonging to the club and this is russian ammunition. i'm sure. 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. kalashnikov assault rifles are mainly assembled by. people working at the machine building in the city will never say weapons rifle they would do is simply the

product so much with very simply a case of being turned down because it's nine hundred forty seven people across the board instantly recognize the kalashnikov it is the most widespread firearm in the woods today. the rifle is not only functional but it's also a handsome model. 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 weapons and 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 fall beyond soviet a bulldozer after the vietnam war. special forces were some of the first to appreciate the benefits of the five point four five millimeter version. had improved it was also much like to and the world no complaints about. missions. that. even the kalashnikov rifle is much more reliable than the m sixteen. and far less from his creation than his american counterpart. 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 and russia and many people know him but he didn't become wealthy for. different approaches different societies different values. new recruits 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. 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.

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. to use that weapon to protect russia's interests. ah i. ah ah 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 kolesnikov in the early one nine hundred sixty s. the soviet union hopes the portuguese colony split 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 the.

flag we have yet the star. and the book the who and. the book signifies education and the whole. culture for. the struggle for you but issue of all counts. this should always. be a time to be a chef machine building around the clock in the big. cold internationally. the employees just because everyone in the flood works like robots if they were ever to find another job at a factory making. the product would still be a kalashnikov. what's going to get.

closed. in the week they have regular jobs but if we can these people change this stuff the officers scrub 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 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 that. of the iconic. 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.

the 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 as the main weapon of all struggle because it never misses targets . proven its reputation in. chinese made. it was the first. used. in the twenty first century. by. using the very.

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going to bait with gold. we're not going to drink what clearly what amal is and is in a desperate economic situation absolutely right what we're wrong to do is say therefore any kind of economic development from the outside is going to be a benefit their only purpose is to extract as much money as possible to feed into the global financial system. with me or a part of the geo political economic system that's extremely or splintered. first of all is a question whether mining should even be carried out altogether can it be done in a way which doesn't destroy people's lives resources environment when you know those are pretty serious questions mining is not a what a moment problem it's happening in asia in africa and south america in central

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first assault rifle models designed by mr kalashnikov's gained popularity because they will waterproof and later version was made for cartridges smaller than the seven point six two millimeter original the day of the gun jim bolden collection call for steve 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 vacay seventy four variant which used five point four five millimeter culture does just like the brotherhood is to was made to prove. today critics often claim to be a k. is outdated. professionals know that any changes to make it. would inevitably affect its most important feature reliability yeah.

for another exercise that could. the critics distinguishing. that if it were possible to train men to be as tough as. 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 and. he is skeptical of the superiority of the. even claims that somebody other than. the end of the. 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. claims that. 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. special being trained to have. the same conditions. police were. designed. for the fact that he had many ideas but they had come from his soviet colleagues from. kalashnikov was able to integrate various solutions with design to. the new assault rifle it was much more than a. whenever a kalashnikov ran out of ammunition it was still very useful and hand to hand fighting one splits 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 used them under all conditions they had a documentary once history channel. where they were talking about the afghans years in 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 there's all in is

based on a single principle put salt 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 belly and 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 and bursaries

has been one of the most active customers for the russian made so i go for that because the americans have compared to if. i got twelve design of the show guns 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 . and the americans had to swallow their pride and 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 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.

for. most people in my experience the kalashnikov has never had any problems working in freezing conditions. 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 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 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. yet another key feature of the kalashnikov is that almost anyone can use it allowing it to hold its ground for more than sixty kilos. it's equally suited both to novices who have only just laid hands on it and professionals dealing with specific tasks. can begin to needs only a short time to acquaintance of the rifle veteran kalashnikov uses such as special

forces to 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 stalk for ease of use i can change the length of the stalk to affix to pistol grip onto it to make it more comfortable. the magazine holds sixty cartridges more than the standard. as the 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.

a special video camera. tests. every. movie. 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. three years old most of his friends and rivals. creator of the usa sixteen. in recent years has become increasingly unhappy about his reputation. killed. one of his weapons. i didn't want to design a weapon that was going to be used in widescale fratricidal war i'm

a very you know i only wanted to protect my country's borders three you are 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. it 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. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone

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starting germ of the first on our team. a bomb attack kills fourteen people and injures over one hundred at a security building in northern edge of the government spokesperson blames the muslim brotherhood branding it a terrorist group. the inventor of the legendary kalashnikov assault rifle dies of the age of ninety four we reported on how a gun dreamed up at a military hospital took the world by storm. and the u.s. pushes for diplomacy in south sudan is raging val's between armed factions threaten to shut american firms out of key oil zones.