How An AK-47 Works!

The AK-47 (or Kalashnikov) is a selective fire, gas operated 7.62mm assault rifle developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov in the 1940s. Six decades later, the AK-47 and its variants and derivatives remain in service throughout the world. It has been manufactured in many countries and has seen service with regular armed forces as well as irregular, revolutionary and terrorist organizations worldwide.

The designation AK-47 stands for Автомат Калашникова 47 (Avtomat Kalashnikova 47) - Kalashnikov automatic rifle, model of 1947.

Design work on the AK began in 1944. In 1946 a version of the rifle, the AK-46, was presented for official military trials, and a year later the fixed stock version was introduced into service with select units of the Red Army. The AK-47 was officially accepted by the Soviet Armed Forces in 1949. An early development of the design was the AKS-47 (S—Skladnoy or "folding"), which differed in being equipped with an underfolding metal shoulder stock.

The AK-47 was one of the first true assault rifles and, due to its durability, low production cost and ease of use, the weapon and its numerous variants remain the most widely used assault rifles in the world — so much so that more AK-type rifles have been produced than all other assault rifles combined.[2][3] It was also used by the majority of the member states of the former Warsaw Pact. The AK-47 was also used as a basis for the development of many other types of individual and crew-served firearms.

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[NRA4ever1399]

It is not "gas blowback". It is gas operated which is different than blowback. Learn something about guns before you post a video of you trying to explain the operation of a rifle.

[h0s3h34d]

@sk8tafrnk You have no idea what you're talking about. The AK has a rotating bolt, the SKS has a tilting bolt. Nothing on these two rifles is exactly the same, except for maybe the front sight post

[For3Years]

narrator sounds like mclovin

[FusionSpecialists]

"This is called gas blowback..." NO! That's what your airsoft toy uses.

The difference is if you block the gas port on a "gas operated" (correct term) firearm, it will not self-load. "Gas blowback," being an airsoft mechanism, is similar to the "blowback" concept in firearms which just uses the mass of the bolt and force of the recoil spring to lock the chamber and load the next round. But that's limited to small calibers.

[MrEran1996]

i mean like, take an m16 and an upside down ak-47, and after that you get pretty much one spring in the bottom for gas and other in the upper part for recoil, join the surface inside those of which behind they have a spring, and half way of what connects the two, put one spring. now the gun wont go up, nor down (like kriss 45 cal). i got to it first thinking how about moving the recoil spring to the middle area, but that wouldnt work, so how about putting another pulling force coming underneath

[MrEran1996]

@MrEran1996 and with that, you achieve recoil that goes from the middle of the stock instead of the upper part, so now you can stay on target full auto much more easy.

[MrEran1996]

how about this: first, turn it upside down, make the gun a bullpup (like a p90 with mag on top), put the gas operating system further down, now put a spring in the MIDDLE of the back stock, and remove the spring from the gas operated mechanism, and connect the two so they move together however the recoil they make is going to the middle area where the spring is, and now do the same thing with the upper, like if it was an ar-15, but instead the regular spring it is connected to the middle.

[victor61453]

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[Uliderohnehoden]

cool ill be so cooool if il buy me such a coool thing

[lododeco]

lol, M16 at the end

[anatoly45mm]

la AK-47 es una de las armas mas faciles y seguras de usar y desmontar y a la vez darle mantenimiento, con su municion 7.62 , lo usaban para destruir las rieles del tren para evitar la comunicacion entre ellos y perder mucho tiempo en las guerras.

[Bsands94]

How an Ak-47 works: Point the Ak at whatever you want to die, and pull the trigger