that he had indeed borrowed many ideas but they had come from his soviet colleagues not from hugo schweizer. kalashnikov was able to integrate various solutions within one designed to best advantage of all of the new assault rifle was much more studied than its rivals. whenever a kalashnikov ran out of ammunition it was still very useful and hand to hand fighting one small it's what a beta 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 caves and 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 dip it in motor oil and pull that shoestring through the board said there was clean as with clean enough. made his weapon in nine hundred forty seven the soviet desperately needed a modern assault rifle. was