It’s the world’s most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn’t break, jam, or overheat. It’ll shoot whether it’s covered in mud or filled with sand. It’s so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people’s greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists.
How strange it is that man finds tools meant for killing (i.e. weapons) so interesting. This rifle is a piece of engineering genius, making it so much easier for people to kill one another. It is repulsive in a way, yet strangely fascinating.
It’s interesting to me how little development there has been in the realm of small arms since the immediate aftermath of WW2. I feel like if you look at the first half of the 20th century, or even the last half of the 19th century, there were major leaps in small arms tech that fundamentally changed the nature of war, but it seems like we’ve basically plateaued.
There are little improvements on the margins with materials and whatnot, and every once and a while you see a whacky new configuration, but it never has the possibility to create the same sort of fundamental shift in tactics (although people more knowledgeable than me feel free to correct me if I’m wrong!). People were talking about air-burst ammo for a while, but idk if that’s going anywhere.
I guess the real revolution in “small arms” in the second half of the 20th century happened in the area of man-portable missile launchers (hi Ukraine).
It’s the world’s most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn’t break, jam, or overheat. It’ll shoot whether it’s covered in mud or filled with sand. It’s so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people’s greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists.
How strange it is that man finds tools meant for killing (i.e. weapons) so interesting. This rifle is a piece of engineering genius, making it so much easier for people to kill one another. It is repulsive in a way, yet strangely fascinating.
I know that “AR” stands for “assault rifle” but what does “AK” stand for?
It’s interesting to me how little development there has been in the realm of small arms since the immediate aftermath of WW2. I feel like if you look at the first half of the 20th century, or even the last half of the 19th century, there were major leaps in small arms tech that fundamentally changed the nature of war, but it seems like we’ve basically plateaued.
There are little improvements on the margins with materials and whatnot, and every once and a while you see a whacky new configuration, but it never has the possibility to create the same sort of fundamental shift in tactics (although people more knowledgeable than me feel free to correct me if I’m wrong!). People were talking about air-burst ammo for a while, but idk if that’s going anywhere.
I guess the real revolution in “small arms” in the second half of the 20th century happened in the area of man-portable missile launchers (hi Ukraine).
Fun fact: the [designer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalashnikov) of this weapon died just more than eight years ago
con que asi funciona
Check out [Ahoy’s video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiZHgwICPlU) about its history as well.
i hear there are great deals on russian ak-47s in ukraine right now, never fired and only dropped once.
The firing pin does not “puncture” the primer, strictly speaking.
triggered
They should also make an animation of the bullet ripping through the recipient.
Too much reality?
here for some karma please!