around but. one rifle from every batch is thoroughly scrutinized before being sent to units in a field. it's more like torture than a scientific trial. the rifles design and michele kalashnikov. 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 sand. 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 rifle kalashnikovs wolf and such a climate. gunsmith mikhail kalashnikov came up with a prototype for his celebrated rifle at least age of twenty two he says about designing it off to he was wounded in action during the second world war recognition of his achievement came five 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 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 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 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. a kalashnikov assault rifles mainly assembled by. people working at the machine building in the city will never say weapons will be able to do 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 blonde 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 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 beyond servia to bulldoze off to the. special forces some of the first to appreciate the benefits of the five point four five millimeter version. had improved it was also much lighter and the world no complaints about. missions. that. even the kalashnikov rifle is much more reliable than the sixteen case design a 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 kalashnikov in fifteen seconds then within the same time limit the gun must be reassembled and ready to fight. 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.

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 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. 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 kolesnikov in the early one nine hundred sixty s. the soviet union hopes the portuguese colony spitefully and the rebels quickly got a feel for the soviet rifle after their victory it became a national symbol. the city in the middle of the.

flag we have yet the star. and the book the who and. the book signifies education and the who put this in the agriculture for. the struggle for me but issue of all counts. and. that is for all these. times to be a shift machine building around the clock in a big old cold internationalists. the employees just because every one of the plant was like robots if they were ever to find another job at a factory making. 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 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. because they kill everything else about the 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. 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. is to achieve real. use in the future. method of tactical training. for the. men and women alike are just beginning to get. the iconic. very strong. again. they have been getting stronger with training exercise. that. right. there is another side to the popularity of the. as one war comes to a. huge profits by buying. and selling them in.

after the soviet union troops. as. a prize for functional. use this rifle is the main weapon of our struggle because it. has proven its reputation demonstrated its complex condition. with chinese made kalashnikov. it was the first. used. in the twenty first century those. against the united states. by. using the very one flows that the us both told him so long ago.

weapons training on a range. began his military service in russia's division. his first inventions were related to vehicles but they could not be implemented because of the. cold fund as a result he couldn't resume active service so he devoted his efforts to designing smaller . react to situations. reports. that the state department comment on your latter point of the month so it's.

no more work. when you question the prepared for a chase when you throw a punch be ready for our. freedom of speech and. the freedom to cross. these locals have been conned somehow here braving the elements in order to stand on the u.s. oil giants chevron. this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that some have dubbed the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which yemen is just one of the front lines.

that it. the first. design. because they. made. the seven point six two millimeter original. the. education and engineering. at that time didn't take. many of his

colleagues have been unable to cope with the result was the case. and used five point four five millimeter cartridges. to prove. to. the. professionals know that any changes to make it. would inevitably affect its most important feature reliability yeah. for another exercise that. the crimson distinguishing. squad they like to joke 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 siri. about a lightweight semi automatic rifle. and then. the impact we were shooting at twenty five yards. is not fast but it's heavy pounding very.

special and. even. fairly effective. and other german specialists contributed to the development of the new product. together claiming that it was made by some ordinary so.

they think the debate is pointless. this place is awash with rumors it's no secret that the german designers are 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. still wet after being carried through water these men are ready to face to send. fighters in this special squad of being trained to handle standard weapons the brand new a k twelve model will be troy down in exactly the same conditions and then sent on to russia's army and police with. kalashnikovs was often 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 chavez a. kalashnikov who was able to integrate various solutions within one design to best advantage moreover the new assault rifle was much more sturdy than its rivals . whenever a kalashnikov ran out of ammunition it was still very useful and hand to hand fighting one splits were later but 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 use 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 clean it why would you do

that and so they said they finally taught them to take their shoelaces off time in a not defeat in motor oil and pull that shoestring through the board said that 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 combs there. formulated by one person who's built all these their design is based on a single principle. 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 exhibition. changed. 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. a semiautomatic shotgun based on the kalashnikov takes less than a couple of seconds to be ready for. the united states potential adverse or it has been one of the most active customers for the russian made. americans of compared before. i got twelve design of the show 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

. americans had to swallow their pride 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 shop to 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 but in my experience the kalashnikov has never had any problems working in freezing conditions there was no wants has a job and this gun is very curable. one of the final tests is quite possibly the toughest the assault rifle is dropped on to a concrete slab from a height to two and a 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 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 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 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 gives. a speed police suited bows 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 of the rifle veteran kalashnikov users such. special forces. the choice depending on the mission. we get a kalashnikov assault rifle from the. site. this is. 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. magazine hold sixty cartridges

more than the standard for. special interior ministry. training exercise each fighter must make sure that their weapon is still ready for battle after such extreme conditions. especially. because this is just. tests. every. move in. the lives of soldiers on assignment. that's what it's supposed to do and it always

functioned to the best of its abilities whether covered in mud or frost. three years old he's outlived most of his friends and rivals. creator of the us sixteen thousand nine hundred seven. in recent years has become increasingly unhappy about his rival's reputation. an average of a quarter of a million people were killed by bullets 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 protect my country's borders three you are teaches about well and that's what i would wish for everybody as well as myself. i have gone through tribulation and i'm ready to go. to the

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