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Posted: 2007-08-09 22:10
by Expendable Grunt
Juba wrote:Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov
The AK is simple, inexpensive to manufacture and easy to clean and maintain. Its ruggedness and reliability are legendary.[16] The large gas piston, generous clearances between moving parts, and tapered cartridge case design allow the gun to endure large amounts of foreign matter and fouling without failing to cycle. This reliability comes at the cost of accuracy, as the looser tolerances do not allow the precision and consistency that are required of more accurate firearms. Reflecting Soviet infantry doctrine of its time, the rifle is meant to be part of massed infantry fire, not long range engagements.
Ditto on the accuracy bit. Saw a slow mo vid of an AK being fired -- damn gun wobbles!
Posted: 2007-08-09 23:05
by OiSkout
milobr wrote:Why? More killing? [/humanist]
Because someone pumped full of drugs is still gonna shoot you until their body disintegrates.
Posted: 2007-08-09 23:11
by Hardtman
OiSkout wrote:Because someone pumped full of drugs is still gonna shoot you until their body disintegrates.
Yep, there've been records of people being hit around 25 times with 5.56 ans they were still shooting back.
Posted: 2007-08-10 00:54
by Popa
Ya, sure 50 cent got shot 9 feckin times! Feckin ejits shudda shot him in the head!
Posted: 2007-08-10 02:16
by Juba
watch this marine firing an AK47
if your under 13 or whatever turn the volume down (has dirty words in it)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=533_1185923949
Posted: 2007-08-10 03:09
by lonelyjew
Posted: 2007-08-10 03:16
by sekiryu
That should be titled "How not to use an Iraqi AK47". Full auto, gripping the magazine (good way to cause misfeeds).
Posted: 2007-08-10 04:22
by Expendable Grunt
That video was t3h suck...
Posted: 2007-08-10 18:55
by OkitaMakoto
dont know if this was mentioned, i wasnt too interested... wasnt the ak made in like 46, then finalized through 48 or something? regardless, i figured it was surely AFTER wwii, if only JUST after... but yeah.......meh...
Posted: 2007-08-10 19:10
by Outlawz7
Yeah, AK47 is an after-WW2 rifle, the guy just thought of it during the war, but they started producing it after the war.
Posted: 2007-08-10 20:07
by OkitaMakoto
thats what i thought, i only read the first post on this thread... i know... im terrible, but i only thought of it cuz i was playing MGS3 yesterday and I codec'd SIGINT and he was all like "I see you got yourself an AK-47 *insert AK history here*" and i was like "cool. i like MGS"
Posted: 2007-08-10 21:04
by Deadfast
Hence the name AK-47.
Posted: 2007-08-10 22:07
by KP
@ Okita: I love SIGINT and his gun stuff. And, yes, the AK-47 was adopted in 1947, hence the name. Same with AK-74 and AN-94.
Posted: 2007-08-10 22:54
by OkitaMakoto
i figured the numbers went without saying... that was another dead give away.
and @ KP
"Yo Snake, Why you naked!?"
