testing. stages first place. 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 fought in the hot and humid conditions often prompted them to improvise with captured kalashnikovs. sixteen rifle kalashnikovs was in 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 that 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 nine hundred ninety s. after the end of the cold war that the a k forty seven was designed has meant 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. 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 of never say weapons rifle but to is simply the product. 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 so they handle the mechanical operations requiring constant attention and they know the rifle inside and 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 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 a bulldozer after the vietnam war. 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 operating. missions. that. even the kalashnikov rifle is much more reliable than 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 receive 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 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 taking the oath.

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 explained through its 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 indication and the whole petition that agriculture for. the. struggle for liberation of all counts.

and. at times be a shift machine building. a big. cold internationalism. the employees just because everyone in the front was like robots if they were ever to find another job at a factory making. the product would still be a kalashnikov. was going to get. closed. in a week they have regular jobs but it weekends these people this stuff the officers club 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 soft is to achieve real. soft in the future as a cost effective method of tactical training. the men and women alike are only just beginning to get that. the iconic.

i'm not very strong because i am a young woman again doing it my hands a lot. 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. has proven its reputation in.

terms of chinese made kalashnikov. it was the first. used against soviet soldiers in the twenty first century those same. against the united states. by. using the very rifles that the u.s. . began his military service in russia's division. his first inventions were related to vehicles but they could not be implemented because.

as a result he couldn't resist. he devoted his efforts to designing small. this comes after a hunger strike the world's attention to the place that sometimes. is an undeclared. because it.

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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. 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 semiautomatic rifle. the impact we were shooting it 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. a 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.

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 hero schmeiser had no access to it. with a kalashnikov still with after being carried through these men are ready to face the. fight as in this special squad are 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's mizer. kalashnikov was able to integrate various solutions within one designed to best advantage more with the new assault rifle it 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 made about 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 it was clean as with clean enough. one kalashnikov made his weapon in nine hundred forty seven the soviet on. desperately needed a modern assault rifle. was a timely solution over time kalashnikov created a wide variety of rifles and machine guns. all the. design is based on a single principle. changeable but this broad range of weapons has been designed by one person that makes them very convenient.

at his first opportunity to attend international small firearms exhibitions. changed. hunting and sporting purposes were being developed based on his rifle. personally test of the new models. a semiautomatic shotgun based on the. takes less than a couple of seconds to be ready for. the united states potential adversary has been one of the most customers. americans have compared. guns based on the kalashnikov assault rifle as it turns out twelve is

a more attractive weapon is more powerful capable of more effective. americans had to swallow their pride. 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 or it's the shop 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. my mother but in my experience the kalashnikov has never had any problems working in freezing conditions not once has a jumped 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 and a home made to. wear at the same firing range where mr question a coffin stone are met in may of one nine hundred ninety there we're 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 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 produce function properly they take the designer and they drop him from eleven feet onto a concrete floor.

yes another key feature of the kalashnikov is that almost anyone can use it allowing it to hold its ground for more than sixty euros. and professionals dealing with specific tasks. such as 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. hold sixty cartridges more than the standard. as a special interior ministry school training exercise. make sure that their weapon is still ready for battle after such extreme conditions. especially video camera. this is just. 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 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 rival's reputation. an average of a quarter of a million people like 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 about well and that's what i would wish for everybody as well as myself.

i have gone through every tribulation and i'm ready to go on working. like me in the world they say i have. placed. everything is changing but i'm still as i have always be. no. this christmas no no no the north pole has been virtually invaded season occupied and so now santa is living in the occupied territories of the north pole. and oil up there rudolph the red nosed reindeer has been read designated

a terrorist. and a commie. then word any word that sets you up then makes you see the need for the us military to occupy rudolph's oil rich homeland so while you may remember him as the free gift giving flying the friendly from now on folks is the commie terrorist or all rich reindeer so bye bye santa by by rudolph there is oil to be secured from those bad guys. why is the price of gold so high. demand global demand do you think oldest money. know the value of the only place we have to live of the water that we need to survive it's not compared to. gold we're not going to eat gold we're not going to be. we're not going to drink what clearly one of all is and it's 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 current. political economic system that's extremely or split true too. first of all it's 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 and so on well 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 america in mexico and it's even happening in canada and the united states.

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