Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Did the AK47 Copy the STG-44?" video.

The "random tank driver" had several gun designs under his belt by the time he started to work on the 47 model and had received technical education. No, they were also not working at the same place. The AK design process happened almost a thousand kilometers away from the Izhevsk plant.
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@guyderagisch4964 I posted the link already. You can also ask Ash Hess, which had his M14 rant by watching 4 minutes past the timestamp I provided. He's also ranted about the M14 on another occasion: https://youtu.be/ZAy9QApbuJQ?t=8743 The most comprehensive resource to understand the absolute bitch that was to bring M14s into the DMR role is to watch the 9-Hole Reviews video about the process on bringing a M1A into M21 standards. Check out the cost at the end.
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You're worse than the silencer/suppressor people goddamn.
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Schmeisser died before the AKM and he had retired to Germany. Also, Schmeisser had limited understanding of stamping with the StG dies being made by either Merz Werke or Hanel, don't remember, and it wouldn't make any sense anyway because the StG stamping was done to add strength to the garbage alloys Germany had access to. The AK stamping is relatively simple. It was the welded rails that kept failing. The type of stamping used in the AK had already been used on other Russian guns.
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@ROVNE2 "it killed MILLIONS of your allies" - that's a tall order. The StG arrived pretty late in the war and there was a very limited supply of magazines and ammo. Many of the rifles produced never made it into the front lines.
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@ROVNE2 The point is wrong and based on false assumptions.
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The hammer The sickle Morty, turned myself into a pickle.
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@bbb462cid It's literally a step back.
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@maxk4471 "m14 modifications today are kidna part of the best marksman rifles" - ahahaha
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@simplymadness8849 It doesn't use the "same" action. The gas system was changed and the tolerances required to manufacture it could not be held by the three factories contracted to make M14s for military service. There's a paper that's unfortunately impossible to find but people who've seen it reported that the military investigated the quality of M14s in service and a good percentage of them had issues because they were too difficult to make at mass manufacturing rates.
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@guyderagisch4964 It came out of retirement because the people in charge are absolute brainlets. It cost more to re-field the M14 than just buying new 7.62 rifles.
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@tbr2109 the M14 accurization process is extremely expensive and many go as far as completely replacing the receiver for ones with different lugs.
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@cbwelch4 "Talk to someone who actually carried an M-14 in combat and they have love for the gun almost invariably." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GZxKWAfwQM&feature=youtu.be&t=8465
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@DarkKatzy013 "it found its place in the military" - thanks to corruption and the fact that the government consistently makes the wrong choices for reasons that only make sense to mad men.
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Lord of War, 2005
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Star Citizen of the gun world.
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@secondamendment8773 Star Citizen is a videogame that was crowdfunded in 2012 and originally slated for 2014 release. Backers are constantly strung along and told that the game is just months away from release. In 2017 or something they stopped giving deadlines.
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"cheap version of stg" - it's literally more expensive to make
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@teemumyyrylainen9247 again, stamping dies and forging dies are extremely expensive. The StG was totally streamlined for wartime production. Any big factory was bombed. So the Germans decentralized production.
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"the soviets may have not had the proper tooling for the STG-44" - This is completely ridiculous. The machinery behind the AK was much more developed than the StG. You know how the StG was headspaced? They used a bolt to space the locking tabs and filled the remaining gap with lead. "When Schmeisser went to Russia he most likely had to help design something based on the tooling they had at that time." - So he made a design that had absolutely nothing to do with the StG, was in fact superior to the StG, because he was... limited by tooling?
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@slickceretto9760 This doesn't make any sense. So they didn't use the StG operating principles and instead copied the Garand, but they also didn't have the "right tooling" so they opted for an even more high-tech manufacturing process... but still copied the StG for completely unnecessary reasons.
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@slickceretto9760 There is no argument, just the debunking of false narratives. The proof is in the puddling? Even though the pudding is a cake? Totally different. A German didn't make it because it doesn't even have any German lineage. It's an American weapon internally with the external build of a Soviet mid century weapon. Not only was a German not necessary to arrive at such a design, it was also extremely unlikely considering the quirks of German weapon designs.
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@slickceretto9760 So why would he be needed? If he had to learn to do everything the Soviet way.... They might as well just use the existing Soviet designers. He was also reported to be uncooperative and had lack of technical education, as compared to the other Germans who had been captured and also sent to Izhmash. Yes, it does matter where the features come from because if they got a German to design a distinctly non-German weapon... This makes the German guy in the story pretty useless. Top weapons designer? You sure about that? Then how come the top weapons designer had problems with the stamped receiver, went back to Germany, died, and then the Soviets solved the issues with the stamped receiver by introducing the AKM 4 years later?
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@slickceretto9760 there's no signature design choice that can be attributed to Schmeisser. In this case the meat and potatoes are fish and salad, so he had nothing to do with the process. He was also never anywhere close to the design process or trials, before Skype, Zoom and Dropbox I don't think he could work remotely. The Soviets may have lied but so did Germans and Wehraboos.
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@konstantinavilov1192 "rather crude and imprecise SMGs" - this doesn't say anything about the stamping process itself "the German stamping technology was used not only in gun-making" - yeah, which is why the StG development needed help from a company that made stamped parts, Merz Werke. "So they had vast experience - unlike the Soviets." - Again, this doesn't mean anything. Soviets had already stamped guns before. The AK is a relatively simple stamp that didn't require any of the finesse seen on the StG because the Soviets were working with better alloys and didn't need the reinforcement.
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