I often get comments like "ak is totally inaccurate" - those people either:
a) never even fired a real ak
b) dont know how to properly shoot with an ak
its true that an ak is not as accurate as some other modern firearms but its accurate enough to be an effective gunfighting platform if you know how to use it
I suppose this is a really good example of how heavily trained the coalition forces are. Even with inferior weapons, they can outperform the taliban, who arguably some of whom, have seen more combat situations. Quite incredible really.
@vodka1983 They have weapons in Afghanistan that have been in continuous use for over fifty years. Am I really going to have to try and prove to you that the West is using more advanced technology in terms of small arms than the Taliban? Do we really need to go there? Because I think it's kind of obvious.
@IsupportWikileaks yes, if you put in that way, the are using some very old, very poorly maintained aks, mostly of chinese or pakistan manufacture which makes them terrible from factory to begin with. however, if you make a trip to the north you could get you a very nice modern ak-100 series. i was assuming you refer to all russian weaponry as inferior. my mistake.
@vodka1983 I was reading an article on the origins of the weapons the Taliban were using, one of the AK's came out of a factory in the Soviet Union in the 40s. Then the 'Lee Enfields' with, "The British empire" etched on them.It's true what you said, I saw a report on the weapons they make in Pakistan and they even had one german weapon G36 hung up in one of their dusty stores. On Russian tech, I know russian 1990s sukhois were more manoeuvrable than the Nato counterparts (until recently)
@EllyMcCormack still more manuevarable.... avionics still a little less capable. however the su-35 which is 4++ is kicking ass. im curious to see what PAK-FA can do once it hits production and we see it in some action. pakistani same as chinamen loveeeee to copy. its a national sport of stealing tech ;))
AMD 65... This video makes me want to shoot. I also took the front vertical grip off mine; looks MUCH better without it and it really isn't needed. Some people think you need it to keep from burning your hands on the exposed gas tube, but it doesn't get hot (to many peoples' surprise). I too would also take an AK over an AR. They're simple and reliable guns. What more could you want?
I find ak much harder to shoot accurately than rk-95(or rk-62) used by FDF becouse of sights. Functionally they are almost the same but rk´s can be very accurate. There were some shooters in the army who kept hitting man size target to approximately 600 meters (using iron sights). Well i dont think the average quality of rk´s is that good though.
they are just surprised cause its an AK variant and the computer game generation thinks AK´s are inaccurate and must be fired from the hip in semi fire lol
@Dcghost55 The Hungarian AMDs are not the easiest rifles to shoot with, due to the short barrel-strong recoil, but... I got a friend in Hungary who can shoot a water melon sized target at 400 meters using his AMD (actually from a bench, but still...). AK are as accurate as their shooter.
@Dcghost55 AKs shoot more accuratley than most people can. thats why this myht about their accuracy has been generated. i have two and would take them out to 500 meters no question.
@SNIPERSTEVE420 I agree, but much of the inaccuracy myth comes from poor training and using 30 yr old AK's with worn out barrels. What a lot of people don't get is that when a rifle is being fired on automatic the bullets are going spread regardless of caliber or rifle design. Since the 7.62x39 is a heavier round it will cause more of a spread effect due to the recoil than your lighter caliber during auto-fire.
I love how people think if you buy an AK, you're automatically a commie/USA hater. I personally don't really like ak's as much as my ar, but they are very good rifles dependability wise and to a degree accuracy wise. If someone likes an ak, shut up and let them use their damn ak!
Why wear a New York hat? NY hates guns, and has not allowed anyone but the police and political elite to touch guns for many years. New York is a degenerate state that is pulling down the rest of the Union.
@GodotheInfantry Accurate enough, if you do your part. We were getting about 50% hits on the target at that range. Especially good when we could not get into a lower, more stable position.
@mistabiggz16 beleive it or not most rounds won't kill anyone in one shot. People can even survive hits from a .50 BMG round. Not to center mass but obviously a flesh wound or one to the leg or arm won't kill instantly.
I imagine a 50 BMG to the leg would kill very quickly if you are talking about a direct hit. It can disable vehicles so I am sure it would have no problem destroying a human leg. The massive blood loss from such a round would kill you very swiftly.
A German pilot in WWII was hit in the leg by a .50 BMG and survived. Shattered the bone in his leg though, can't imagine he could ever walk without a cane or something again but he did survive
I get so sick of people talking crap about the ak when they have no idea what they are talking about. I have an ar-15 and an ak. I love both of them. Its like apples and oranges. My ar is much more accurate yes, but I know I can count on the ak to work no matter how dirty it is, or brand of ammo, no failures of any kind 10k rounds and counting! And I can buy 3 of them for what I paid for my AR. I'm proud to be an American to, but the ak is a very tough, reliable, and simple gun. I love it.
@supremesimmons i wish more after market parts were available for the Ak, and more RIS systems. the one thing i wouldn't like about the Ak is that the upper receiver is easily field stripped. kind of counter-intuitive, but the upper metal cover that comes off with the "mock hammer" being pushed moves around, while not a lot on firing. The sight has to be mounted forward or on a separate ris attached to the lower receiver extending upwards> the barrel is attached to the "lower" receiver. :(
@arapistonhalo "mock hammer"?? what are you talking about?..and there is no "upper or lower" reciever on a AK its just a reciver with a front trunion and a barrel shoved into it...the bolt carrier and piston run over the barrel..whats the problem with that? All piston-type operating systems use that same layout. But yes, the reciever cover comes off of the top of the rifle..how is that counter-intuitive?
@arapistonhalo Yea if you mount on to the reciver cover you will get alot of slop and bad accuracy. So if you like a scope go with the aluminum side mount that wraps around the cover they are rock steady man.I like my irons though so I dont worry about it. I love my Ak I got it and 2000 rounds for $850.00 cheaper than an ar and it is perfect for any long term bug out. The best option for a guy that dont have any semi auto assult rifles and wants one quick before shtf ,but don't have alot $GodB
@supremesimmons The ar is reliable too. Its just becasue people hear of reports from vietnam when it jammed which was the Governments fault for using cruddy ammo that no gun except manual actions could cycle. Plus they downsized it to the 5.56 with awful coeffecients. The original ar-10 was the best!
@ELITEHAMSTER123 Remember what the AR-10 was intended for: Medium Range Precision! It doesn't matter how you scale the AR-10 down. It won't be as reliable with 1500+ rounds through it as an AK. The direct impingement system is great for accuracy out of an auto-loader (the best imaginable actually) but the gases come right back into the bolt and chamber fouling everything and heating the hell out of it with too many rounds through it. Add in the more straight walled cases and you've got problems.
so was the amd-65 capable of hitting targets out to 500 meters because if u can do it with an amd-65 an ak-103 or ak-74m should be no problem and that contradicts the ak's reputation as being godfully inaccurate.
True. Tankers, airborne, marines and the border patrol troops. AMD-65 is a Hungarian version of the Soviet AKMS. The design of the collapsible stock you see on that video was copied from the German MP-38 and wasn't really popular with the troops (too wobbly). So eventually was replaced with the one that collapses sideways. Later on AKMS was replaced with 7.62 AKSU and 5.45 AKS74-U. Nevertheless, for a number of reasons the servicemen in Chechnya still prefer the good old AKM :-)
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Considering that he stole the Idea from the German MP-44(aka STG-43 Sturmgewehr) And don't tell me he didn't. The AK is a sloppy, cheap version of the 44. I had the chance to fire a 44, was getting hits on a man target at 700 meters
Maybe you did get to shoot an stg-44 maybe you didn't. But you are completely wrong about the ak being a "cheap" version. The two guns look alike, but thats about where it ends... Inside, they are very different. Stg uses a tilting bolt, while the ak uses a rotating bolt. They look nothing alike when disassembled next to each other. You do not know what you are talking about. sorry.
knightstalker, that is the most noob gargarage talk I have ever heard and its nothing more then myth.
if you got your history right you would know that kalashnikov desinged his Ak while he was in a hospital in the middle of ww2. The mp44 didn't come out until late in the war and if you look at the internals of the mp44 and the ak-47 you would find that they are vastly different.
theres an education that didn't cost you a dime or your IQ.
I don't want to be a bitch and call you out or anything, but when Kalashnikov was recuperating in 1941 or so, he was designing a submachinegun and his design lost out to Sudayev's PPS-42. Red Army brass saw his talent and let him design more stuff. And the MP44 had its roots in the Walther MP42 from, well, 1942. I'm not agreeing with that noob. But if Kalashnikov even saw a Sturmgewehr before he started work on the AK, he was surely influenced by nothing more than the "assault rifle" aspect.
Amen to that dude, I cant tell you how annoyed I get with people that say it is a sturmgewehr copy. Armchair commandos and there game/video knowledge.
The guy called out (I think) two hits so I suppose so. It's hard to believe you can get that much range out of an AK though. He's got everything working against him: a short sight radius (rear sight is in the middle on AKs), reduced barrel length of the AMD, and the fact that 7.62x39 drops like a rock compared to 5.56. Guy is good.
*According to internets, whenever the U.S. arms a foreign military outfit they usually go with the AK of the moment from whatever former Soviet nations have been on good behavior. Having an actual arms deal with the Russians would not look good to the public I suppose. Plus it pisses off Kalashnikov to no end that he doesn't get a cut of the profits. The AK apparently has no internationally enforceable patent, guess it has to do with it being invented during communism.
Sure, but what is it not a normal AK compared too? As long as it's a Kalashnikov rifle, it should be viewed as an AK. What are the "ordinary" AK ? The M16 is not the only Colt rifle, this would be the same :)
The problem is when most people say AK-47 they really mean AKM, which is the most popular of the "AK variants" as it replaced the AK47 in 1959 as the main rifle of the USSR for their army and export. The AKM is much cheaper and lighter while just as reliable.
If in doubt, just call it an AK or Kalashnikov.
But the AKM would be the "normal AK" even though film, pop culture and even seasoned (western) military professionals refer to it erroneously as the AK47.
Yeah, that's exactly what I mean, when people hear "AK" they think aobut the 47. It's stupid, it's not used anymore as the US forces ain't using the Thompson :P
Excellent video!
I often get comments like "ak is totally inaccurate" - those people either:
a) never even fired a real ak
b) dont know how to properly shoot with an ak
its true that an ak is not as accurate as some other modern firearms but its accurate enough to be an effective gunfighting platform if you know how to use it
PolenarTactical 6 days ago 3
The weapon may be capable but from that shooters form and fundamentals i am saying bs.
MrDevinr83 2 weeks ago
uhh no cheak to stock weld on that sbr. I'm gonna have to call *ahem* (fake caugh) Bullshit!
MrDevinr83 2 weeks ago
@311gc everybody is full a shit,nowadays
butchy586 3 months ago
I suppose this is a really good example of how heavily trained the coalition forces are. Even with inferior weapons, they can outperform the taliban, who arguably some of whom, have seen more combat situations. Quite incredible really.
EllyMcCormack 6 months ago
@EllyMcCormack inferior weapons? excuse you?
vodka1983 6 months ago
@vodka1983 They have weapons in Afghanistan that have been in continuous use for over fifty years. Am I really going to have to try and prove to you that the West is using more advanced technology in terms of small arms than the Taliban? Do we really need to go there? Because I think it's kind of obvious.
IsupportWikileaks 6 months ago
@IsupportWikileaks yes, if you put in that way, the are using some very old, very poorly maintained aks, mostly of chinese or pakistan manufacture which makes them terrible from factory to begin with. however, if you make a trip to the north you could get you a very nice modern ak-100 series. i was assuming you refer to all russian weaponry as inferior. my mistake.
vodka1983 6 months ago
@vodka1983 I was reading an article on the origins of the weapons the Taliban were using, one of the AK's came out of a factory in the Soviet Union in the 40s. Then the 'Lee Enfields' with, "The British empire" etched on them.It's true what you said, I saw a report on the weapons they make in Pakistan and they even had one german weapon G36 hung up in one of their dusty stores. On Russian tech, I know russian 1990s sukhois were more manoeuvrable than the Nato counterparts (until recently)
EllyMcCormack 6 months ago
@EllyMcCormack still more manuevarable.... avionics still a little less capable. however the su-35 which is 4++ is kicking ass. im curious to see what PAK-FA can do once it hits production and we see it in some action. pakistani same as chinamen loveeeee to copy. its a national sport of stealing tech ;))
vodka1983 6 months ago
Excellent shooting.
dumbluck0629 6 months ago
AMD 65... This video makes me want to shoot. I also took the front vertical grip off mine; looks MUCH better without it and it really isn't needed. Some people think you need it to keep from burning your hands on the exposed gas tube, but it doesn't get hot (to many peoples' surprise). I too would also take an AK over an AR. They're simple and reliable guns. What more could you want?
mscmatt 7 months ago
@Fmorris309 dude no one cares fuck u
Scottypowpow 7 months ago
the amd-65 cant reach out to 500 meters soooo?
bazookajoethethird 7 months ago
it is not AK, it is AMD-65 !
Crecer131 7 months ago
isn't Amd-65 is short barreled Ak somthing like police one, It have to have les accuracy then millitary Ak
FMorris308 7 months ago
hes holding the ak wrong
hamzah336 7 months ago
I find ak much harder to shoot accurately than rk-95(or rk-62) used by FDF becouse of sights. Functionally they are almost the same but rk´s can be very accurate. There were some shooters in the army who kept hitting man size target to approximately 600 meters (using iron sights). Well i dont think the average quality of rk´s is that good though.
leksious 8 months ago
how big was the target you where shooting at?
ThexFatxMarathoner 9 months ago
AMEN.
gbmotorsports 9 months ago
I think that that shot was not at 500 yards.. Using iron sights on an AK at 500 yards i mean come on! Really?
Dcghost55 11 months ago
@Dcghost55 Yes, Really.
fyibutube 11 months ago 31
@fyibutube I believe it. The aks inaccuracy is a propaganda myth.
shishiromura 10 months ago
@fyibutube
they are just surprised cause its an AK variant and the computer game generation thinks AK´s are inaccurate and must be fired from the hip in semi fire lol
Exorcist1986 4 months ago
@fyibutube what vest was he using???
lukyluk666 4 months ago
@Dcghost55 500 yards not the same as 500 meters dipshit...
naroj10 8 months ago
@Dcghost55 I have a vid up shooting 500 meters with an AK also. It's not that hard to do.
millerusaf 8 months ago
@Dcghost55 it can do it
hamzah336 7 months ago
@Dcghost55 The Hungarian AMDs are not the easiest rifles to shoot with, due to the short barrel-strong recoil, but... I got a friend in Hungary who can shoot a water melon sized target at 400 meters using his AMD (actually from a bench, but still...). AK are as accurate as their shooter.
vaszi 7 months ago
@Dcghost55 AKs shoot more accuratley than most people can. thats why this myht about their accuracy has been generated. i have two and would take them out to 500 meters no question.
SNIPERSTEVE420 3 months ago
@SNIPERSTEVE420 I agree, but much of the inaccuracy myth comes from poor training and using 30 yr old AK's with worn out barrels. What a lot of people don't get is that when a rifle is being fired on automatic the bullets are going spread regardless of caliber or rifle design. Since the 7.62x39 is a heavier round it will cause more of a spread effect due to the recoil than your lighter caliber during auto-fire.
DoWiseThings 3 months ago
@DoWiseThings your absolutley right. the rounds weight is what causes it to be "innacurate", if you know how to compensate, its accurate.
SNIPERSTEVE420 3 months ago
I love how people think if you buy an AK, you're automatically a commie/USA hater. I personally don't really like ak's as much as my ar, but they are very good rifles dependability wise and to a degree accuracy wise. If someone likes an ak, shut up and let them use their damn ak!
robs104 1 year ago 5
when he initially said "you're still high, damn" i thought; that's probably not such a good idea..
but them i realized....
parkour0423 1 year ago
where is this guy?
WhatsaUserName321 1 year ago
@WhatsaUserName321 in the tags.
fyibutube 1 year ago 2
I WISH I COULD SEE THE FUCKIGN TARGET!
curseofa5r5a 1 year ago
@curseofa5r5a Agreed
RantinAndRavin 1 year ago
Nice firing position
rohan9621 1 year ago
how do you adjust the sights on that thing?
norcaltke857 1 year ago
Great shooting at 500m. Not many vids on Youtube of AKs at long ranges.
wysoft 1 year ago
Nice shooting!
GunDealerOnline 1 year ago
500 meters, very impressive on the gun's and the shooter's part. I did not know an AK style rifle could achieve this. Thanks for posting this.
Yournamehere945 1 year ago
How big was the target the size of a washing machine? I didn't see it.
bllw69 1 year ago
@bllw69 About 1 Meter by 2 Meters.
fyibutube 1 year ago
@fyibutube Use the imperial metric system so we can all understand. America is no longer a British colony.
EquipaPatriot 1 year ago
@fyibutube are you sure u werent shooting at a school bus or something?
deadtofall666 10 months ago
AK's are awesome rifles to shoot. That is awesome that you can hit out that far, good shooting.
PvtVVitt 1 year ago
why do these guns sound silenced when they're not?
EliScorch 1 year ago
@EliScorch probably just the camera's mic
chaon93 1 year ago
It´s an AMD &5, hungarian AK.
ValdemarAK47 1 year ago
Awesome
neillrick 1 year ago
@neillrick Thank You Sir
fyibutube 1 year ago
damn that's far..
boulder000 1 year ago
Why wear a New York hat? NY hates guns, and has not allowed anyone but the police and political elite to touch guns for many years. New York is a degenerate state that is pulling down the rest of the Union.
akompsupport 1 year ago
@akompsupport Wow... maybe you should go into Politics ;-)
fyibutube 1 year ago
I love my AK.
Blown4banger 2 years ago
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AK - 47
7.62 (39) mm
Ak - 74 5.56
fuckrussia69 2 years ago
@fuckrussia69 AK-74's are actually 5.45x39
Tr0nMakesPr0n 2 years ago 8
AK74 is 5.45x39mm
N00bSoup 2 years ago 2
What caliber is being fired?
darkglass93 2 years ago
7.62X39
fyibutube 2 years ago
What size target???
ToLetTheWorldBe 2 years ago
@ToLetTheWorldBe A sheet of plywood, about 2 ft by 5 ft. Give or take, it was a long time ago.
fyibutube 1 year ago
that looks like a AMD 65
ElCamino0to60 2 years ago 2
How accurate is the rifle?
GodotheInfantry 2 years ago
The round itself has legs for about 250 meters beyond tha you are pretty much area firing.
AKlover 2 years ago
@AKlover I have never found anyone that would volunteer to hang out in that "area" and get fired at. :-)
fyibutube 1 year ago
lol not very
Pvtm4a1 2 years ago
@GodotheInfantry Accurate enough, if you do your part. We were getting about 50% hits on the target at that range. Especially good when we could not get into a lower, more stable position.
fyibutube 1 year ago
@fyibutube i wonder...what type of munition you used?
TheLahtisAndCompany 1 year ago
I never saw the target. How do I know this was 500 meters? Lets see the hits.
ferret6677 2 years ago 2
AK-47 rifle is a high damaged gun..but has high recoil soo ..must hav good handling to use AK-47..by the wat theres a new rifle in town AK-74
VKth3ET 2 years ago
The recoil is not bad.
Spelunker0211 2 years ago
No thanks ill take the AK-47. AK-74 WONT kill a fucking frog......
mistabiggz16 2 years ago
@mistabiggz16 you never saw what a 5.45 round can do have you? bigger wound channel than a 5.56. tumbles better
zboyco 2 years ago
@zboyco i would rather have better penatration, (shoot thru walls, bricks, etc)
akshooter762 1 year ago
@mistabiggz16 beleive it or not most rounds won't kill anyone in one shot. People can even survive hits from a .50 BMG round. Not to center mass but obviously a flesh wound or one to the leg or arm won't kill instantly.
clarkscoolskool 1 year ago
I imagine a 50 BMG to the leg would kill very quickly if you are talking about a direct hit. It can disable vehicles so I am sure it would have no problem destroying a human leg. The massive blood loss from such a round would kill you very swiftly.
6117240 1 year ago
A German pilot in WWII was hit in the leg by a .50 BMG and survived. Shattered the bone in his leg though, can't imagine he could ever walk without a cane or something again but he did survive
clarkscoolskool 1 year ago
Not bad shooting. Have you tried some kind of optical sights? Then you don't have to worry about the simplistic iron sights.
colddrake80 2 years ago
Afghan standard issue
fyibutube 2 years ago
Cross training?
RAG3T3K 2 years ago
if its that hard to hit dead on even while aiming with the iron sights those insurgents must never hit shit aiming by the waist
badmintonho 3 years ago
the ak sights are horrible for range. he must shoot aks often to hit a target 1600 feet away.
iamtheflu 2 years ago
I get so sick of people talking crap about the ak when they have no idea what they are talking about. I have an ar-15 and an ak. I love both of them. Its like apples and oranges. My ar is much more accurate yes, but I know I can count on the ak to work no matter how dirty it is, or brand of ammo, no failures of any kind 10k rounds and counting! And I can buy 3 of them for what I paid for my AR. I'm proud to be an American to, but the ak is a very tough, reliable, and simple gun. I love it.
supremesimmons 3 years ago 52
@supremesimmons i wish more after market parts were available for the Ak, and more RIS systems. the one thing i wouldn't like about the Ak is that the upper receiver is easily field stripped. kind of counter-intuitive, but the upper metal cover that comes off with the "mock hammer" being pushed moves around, while not a lot on firing. The sight has to be mounted forward or on a separate ris attached to the lower receiver extending upwards> the barrel is attached to the "lower" receiver. :(
arapistonhalo 1 year ago
@arapistonhalo "mock hammer"?? what are you talking about?..and there is no "upper or lower" reciever on a AK its just a reciver with a front trunion and a barrel shoved into it...the bolt carrier and piston run over the barrel..whats the problem with that? All piston-type operating systems use that same layout. But yes, the reciever cover comes off of the top of the rifle..how is that counter-intuitive?
Gloomshadow1 1 year ago
@arapistonhalo Yea if you mount on to the reciver cover you will get alot of slop and bad accuracy. So if you like a scope go with the aluminum side mount that wraps around the cover they are rock steady man.I like my irons though so I dont worry about it. I love my Ak I got it and 2000 rounds for $850.00 cheaper than an ar and it is perfect for any long term bug out. The best option for a guy that dont have any semi auto assult rifles and wants one quick before shtf ,but don't have alot $GodB
efrey614 1 year ago
@supremesimmons
You bought a cheap ass AK then. If you buy a nice one (like me) then you'd see that they can shoot just as well as AR's.
CoChicken1337 1 year ago
@supremesimmons The ar is reliable too. Its just becasue people hear of reports from vietnam when it jammed which was the Governments fault for using cruddy ammo that no gun except manual actions could cycle. Plus they downsized it to the 5.56 with awful coeffecients. The original ar-10 was the best!
ELITEHAMSTER123 1 year ago
@ELITEHAMSTER123 Remember what the AR-10 was intended for: Medium Range Precision! It doesn't matter how you scale the AR-10 down. It won't be as reliable with 1500+ rounds through it as an AK. The direct impingement system is great for accuracy out of an auto-loader (the best imaginable actually) but the gases come right back into the bolt and chamber fouling everything and heating the hell out of it with too many rounds through it. Add in the more straight walled cases and you've got problems.
ArmednSafe 10 months ago
@supremesimmons Thank you for this comment!
smokybob63 7 months ago
Very Capable
fyibutube 3 years ago
so was the amd-65 capable of hitting targets out to 500 meters because if u can do it with an amd-65 an ak-103 or ak-74m should be no problem and that contradicts the ak's reputation as being godfully inaccurate.
meatyclaws 3 years ago
AMD 65 is a ak clone so it is ak but a little bit shorter because it was made for tankers.
cookie58663 3 years ago
True. Tankers, airborne, marines and the border patrol troops. AMD-65 is a Hungarian version of the Soviet AKMS. The design of the collapsible stock you see on that video was copied from the German MP-38 and wasn't really popular with the troops (too wobbly). So eventually was replaced with the one that collapses sideways. Later on AKMS was replaced with 7.62 AKSU and 5.45 AKS74-U. Nevertheless, for a number of reasons the servicemen in Chechnya still prefer the good old AKM :-)
TTok33 3 years ago
Mikahail kalashnikov gets some profit from his guns. it stays the same every month but he gets a cut
wedvarn 3 years ago
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Considering that he stole the Idea from the German MP-44(aka STG-43 Sturmgewehr) And don't tell me he didn't. The AK is a sloppy, cheap version of the 44. I had the chance to fire a 44, was getting hits on a man target at 700 meters
knightstalker1369 3 years ago
Maybe you did get to shoot an stg-44 maybe you didn't. But you are completely wrong about the ak being a "cheap" version. The two guns look alike, but thats about where it ends... Inside, they are very different. Stg uses a tilting bolt, while the ak uses a rotating bolt. They look nothing alike when disassembled next to each other. You do not know what you are talking about. sorry.
supremesimmons 3 years ago 34
knightstalker, that is the most noob gargarage talk I have ever heard and its nothing more then myth.
if you got your history right you would know that kalashnikov desinged his Ak while he was in a hospital in the middle of ww2. The mp44 didn't come out until late in the war and if you look at the internals of the mp44 and the ak-47 you would find that they are vastly different.
theres an education that didn't cost you a dime or your IQ.
Alexn1067 2 years ago 4
I don't want to be a bitch and call you out or anything, but when Kalashnikov was recuperating in 1941 or so, he was designing a submachinegun and his design lost out to Sudayev's PPS-42. Red Army brass saw his talent and let him design more stuff. And the MP44 had its roots in the Walther MP42 from, well, 1942. I'm not agreeing with that noob. But if Kalashnikov even saw a Sturmgewehr before he started work on the AK, he was surely influenced by nothing more than the "assault rifle" aspect.
Kalashinator 2 years ago
oh absolutely, the concept was certainly influenced, but the design..no. They are clearly different making the AK origional in its own right.
often the problem is that a lot of noobs assume that the AK was copied from the MP44 because they look similar.
Alexn1067 2 years ago 3
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He was very much influenced by the Nazi Sturmgewehr . Or Storm Trooper Machine gun.
websuspect 2 years ago
I thought the Stormtroopers used the BlasTech E-11 =P
Kalashinator 2 years ago
Amen to that dude, I cant tell you how annoyed I get with people that say it is a sturmgewehr copy. Armchair commandos and there game/video knowledge.
Master7770 2 years ago
haha armchair commandos what an amazing term.
almightyhaggis2002 2 years ago
Love the AMD-65. My favorite among the 7.62x39 AK variants. That's why I got one.
UrbanTiger74 3 years ago
sure, you might have aimed 500 meters, but did you hit anything?
0neweak 3 years ago
The guy called out (I think) two hits so I suppose so. It's hard to believe you can get that much range out of an AK though. He's got everything working against him: a short sight radius (rear sight is in the middle on AKs), reduced barrel length of the AMD, and the fact that 7.62x39 drops like a rock compared to 5.56. Guy is good.
NekolasM 3 years ago
Is there a reason behind all of you guys using the AMD-65 over a normal AK? Or is it just the most widely available gun in the region?
FOOSAG 3 years ago
I am sure someone contracted for them and ordered them in large quantities. Not sure why.
fyibutube 3 years ago
What's the "Normal AK" then? The AK-47?
steffengd 3 years ago
Basically, normal = not a foreign made variant
FOOSAG 3 years ago
*According to internets, whenever the U.S. arms a foreign military outfit they usually go with the AK of the moment from whatever former Soviet nations have been on good behavior. Having an actual arms deal with the Russians would not look good to the public I suppose. Plus it pisses off Kalashnikov to no end that he doesn't get a cut of the profits. The AK apparently has no internationally enforceable patent, guess it has to do with it being invented during communism.
NekolasM 3 years ago
Kalashnikov never gets the profit any ways. He chose honor over money.
Goodspittin 3 years ago
No, he chose to design a rifle for a communist government instead of free enterprise. So there went the profits.
catchthedemon 3 years ago
that too
Goodspittin 3 years ago
AMD-65 isn't a normal AK, It's got a shorter barrel and the gas tube isn't covererd. But as somebody as said did the guy actually hit anything?
esh325 3 years ago
Sure, but what is it not a normal AK compared too? As long as it's a Kalashnikov rifle, it should be viewed as an AK. What are the "ordinary" AK ? The M16 is not the only Colt rifle, this would be the same :)
steffengd 3 years ago
The problem is when most people say AK-47 they really mean AKM, which is the most popular of the "AK variants" as it replaced the AK47 in 1959 as the main rifle of the USSR for their army and export. The AKM is much cheaper and lighter while just as reliable.
If in doubt, just call it an AK or Kalashnikov.
But the AKM would be the "normal AK" even though film, pop culture and even seasoned (western) military professionals refer to it erroneously as the AK47.
Treblaine 3 years ago
Yeah, that's exactly what I mean, when people hear "AK" they think aobut the 47. It's stupid, it's not used anymore as the US forces ain't using the Thompson :P
steffengd 3 years ago