that he had indeed borrowed many ideas but they had come from his soviets colleagues not from hugo schweizer. kalashnikov was able to integrate various solutions within one designed to best advantage all of 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 made a bit 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 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 the 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 assaul