Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Russia's AK 47 Rifle Evolution to the NEW AK-12" video.

  1. 7.62x39 travels at like twice the speed of sound. How the hell is it subsonic?
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  2. Except that Kalashnikov was 900 km away from Izhmash while the AK was being developed. Unless you claim him and Schmeisser had long phone conversations, your timeline is wrong. If you look at the two rifles side by side you'll realize that there's only so many ways to lay out a long-stroke piston rifle built off stamped steel and fed by a magazine forward of the pistol grip. First of all, the StG has a magwell and magazine release more comparable to the AR than the AK's. The stock is attached completely differently, with the StG having the predecessor for the H&K design where the stock is meant to sleeve the rear of the receiver and get pinned into place - the AK has the stock bolted to the rear trunnion. The StG makes use of ribbed reinforcements in its stampings to make up for weaker steel alloys - the AK uses a simplistic stamp with a lower amount of dimples. The StG receiver splits into an upper and lower/trigger group housing. The AK uses a single receiver with a cover. If anything, the H&K rifles and MP5 submachine gun are guilty of more copying of the StG than the AK, which only have steel and wood in common. The nail in the coffin is the internals. Why would the Russians ask a German to help, and said German simply copied American designs? The AK uses the operating system and trigger of the M1 Garand, and the safety/dust cover from the Remington Model 8. Why wouldn't the Russians just copy it themselves? In what way did they benefit from the German expertise if they made the least possible German gun by cloning the M1 Garand?
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  3. "they wouldn't have to bring ammo, they could just use NATO's ammo as they conquer each country" - and each country conveniently leaves spiked ammunition that will explode and kill the shooter when they sense that they're about to be overrun.
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  4. The Type 1 was the variant that failed in production. Type 2 and Type 3 AK-47s were manufactured in series and issued to troops before being replaced by the AKM in the 1950s.
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