T-rav20 wrote:
puerco_loco wrote:
T-rav20 wrote:
subalternnavert wrote:
Starbuline wrote:
I love Russia, I'm going to live there when I'm an adult and hopefully be happy about it. I know a lot about Russia. Quiz me, please. *Stares blankly*
Right then, what was Kalashnikov's first contribution in the Great Patriotic War?
Ohhhh, shiny......
Actualy he first designed an autoloading (semi-automatic) rifle before he designed the Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947 it wasn't adopted and the name escapes me for the moment. (or were you refering to him being a tank commander?)
His first design was a tachometer for the T-34 tank. Uncle Joe was impressed - it got him out of the war zone and into a design bureau. Source - the History Channel - Tales of the Gun - viewed a few years ago.
My mind is like a Roach Motel - random facts check in, but they don't check out.
Darn, I saw that one too, my mind is like a dark well, drop something in there, you might see it again, you might not. Although many assume the AK-47 is a copy of the german StG 44 its action has a great deal more in common with the American M1 'Garand' the M1 was designed by John C. Garand, it is a semi-automatic rifle in .30-06 Springfield fed by 8 round clips. Clips are not magazines and the two terms are not interchangeable, a clip is a device for holding rounds together and is an integral part of the action af the firearm if a clip is not inserted the weapon cannot fire, a magazine which is commonly called a clip, but which is properly called a 'removable box magazine' is a device which is removable from the weapon and contains the rounds to be fed into the weapon by action of a spring. In addition to box magazines there are also drums, which many associate with the Thompson M1928 submachine gun, tube magazines which can be found under 99% of pump action shotguns, and far more rarely, high capacity helical magazines. There are also internal box magazines, which are not removable. These are often fed by 'chargers', or 'stripper clips', long strips of metal which hold cartriges together. There are also 'moon clips' which are used in revolvers which chamber types of ammunition more commonly used in automatic pistols, such as: 10MM Auto, .45 ACP, or 9MM Parabellum. Moon clips hold unrimmed rounds and keep them from sliping too deeply into the chamber. They come in 'full moons' which hold six rounds, 'half moons' which hold three, and 'third moons' holding two.
What was this thread about again?
Before Kalshnikov developed the AK47
he helped develop the SKS56 carbine which also uses the 7.62 X 39 mm round that is loaded
from a 10 round stripper clip from the top instead of a 30 round magazine from the bottom,
it fired in semi-automatic mode only,it was sometimes called a Simonov carbine.By the way I
think this thread is about behaving like an Aspie stereotype, sometimes I talk too much about
weapons while rocking back & forth.And then I wonder why my coworkers think I might be another UNABOMBER.
11 Feb 2007, 9:19 pm
